It's been a pretty good day. Remembering to stop and breathe...to understand that only a very few things are really that important any...

Blazing hot here today. I've been outside off and on...sweeping decks and burning papers and feeding chickens. But mostly I am inside. T...

  Today I woke up to a brilliantly sunny day, a husband kissing me and saying Happy Anniversary, sweetheart, and kittens yowling and howlin...

  This has been  an absolutely perfect day. I got up this morning and straightened the house, vacuumed...you know. Then I sat out on the ba...

     " We will comprehend the word, serenity, and we will know peace." pg83, BB *********************************** I think a ...

The Snowbringer. I swiped her from somewhere that evades me just now, because I thought she was so incredibly beautiful. The mercury is ...

OOPs...forgot to take the birdbath down. Good thing it's about 200 pounds of concrete. It snowed a good part of the day today, and ev...

Oh, my.....just LOOK at all that water. Know where else you can find water?....In EVERY SINGLE FAUCET IN MY HOUSE!!!!! And the toilets. O...

The beautiful pipe organ at the St. Louis cathedral in New Orleans... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I was thinking ...

Today I watched in fascination as people who were out and about celebrated a day set aside to honor their moms. There were little girls all ...

While the rest of us fight our way upstream.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's been a lovely rainy Friday he...

The elusive blackberry lily. I wasn't sure why it was called that until the end of the first summer I had planted them, when the flow...

Happy Soberversary, (((MaryLA))) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thought I'd give you a blue place to dance .... xoxoxoxo My life and my sobriety ...

A stellar day all round....Sean Penn took home the Oscar for his portrayal of Harvey Milk. Slumdog Millionaire took away the most awards. An...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's said that You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. My BFF Dorot...

[Need a ride? Seamus the wonder dog...] click to enlarge ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Watched Stump the Sussex ...

Wicked Good...like the French Quarter in old New Orleans !! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I love days of blue skies and col...

[Me...circa 1978. On a beach in California, just south of San Francisco) Well, I spent a good part of the morning watching the inauguration...

[The view across my front yard, 2005] Well, here we are, another day come and gone. I could wax philosophic ...

[Some gorgeous giant turtles at a zoo in Decatur] Today (14th) was my beloved's 28th sober anniversar...