Golldilocks Takes Pictures

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Something as simple as taking a picture of the wildflower bouquet I picked today evolved into an artistic experiment.  What would the best picture I could take without moving the vase, any accuturements, or, without photoshopping anything out of the frame?  My initial impulse was to have the funky bird lawn sculpture in the [...]

Rainy Saturday

Originally, the plans for the day had included a long list of outdoor chores-many of them including the use of electricity.  Several shrubs, a few dangling tree limbs and some branches that get in the way when cutting grass were all going to be neatly trimmed, bringing some order to the bounty of overgrowth that this very [...]

The Write Stuff

Oh where oh where has my writing brain gone?  Oh where oh where can it be?  With it’s wit so sharp and it’s words so tight.  Oh where oh where can it be?

Sobbing Over My Saab

Miss my Saab.  Convertible weather has arrived.  A few years ago, I gave in to my long submerged urge to own a 1993 or earlier Saab convertible.  It had a tan interior on a black body.  900 Turbo.  Oooh, what fun it was to drive.  I’m not even really a convertible kind of girl, but there is [...]

This I Believe

“This I Believe,” on National Public Radio is a revival of a famed 1950’s series hosted by one of the premier journalists of his time, Edward R. Murrow.  Now, as well as then, everyday and not so everyday people, write an essay about what each values about his/her life and world. 
When the series was revived several years ago by [...]

For Cynthia

Balmy breezes and bright blue skies made today’s monthly trek to the furtherest reaches of my territory an adventure in springtime discovery and renewal.  Shades of green are returning to yards–the one down side being that it is growing and will soon need to be cut :( 
The earliest bloomers were everywhere.  Profusely bursting from hillsides, sideyards and spotlight [...]

Over or Under

Ann Landers and Dear Abby, advice columnists, and twin sisters, each had a notoriously long running series of columns dedicated to a discussion of the merits of replacing a roll of toilet paper by over-rolling or under-rolling the sheets.  People had passionate opinions about the merits of each method.  In some cases, marriages passed or failed based [...]