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AN EXPERIMENT IN BLOOM This past spring, I had leftover flower seeds and a leftover flower pot from the previous year. Why not just throw some seeds in there and see what happens? This was the result: It became …
REFLECTIVE THINKING I like to "take a break" a few times a day and get my vitamin D by going outside with a cup of sudsy water to collect some Japanese beetles. It's a nice excuse, anyway. This morning I saw this: …
KEEPING YOUR HEAD UP Years ago, my Older Son took swimming lessons at the home of a marvelous teacher. She was stern, but very encouraging. The children made huge advances in their swimming and she made them strong i…
ANOTHER TWO Last summer at a routine medical checkup, the doctor asked if I was sleeping well in the mornings. "Well, we sleep with some windows open. The birds often wake me up." "Oh yes," replied the doctor. "Th…
ADDING TO THE LIST This week I added to my Life List by two. No, I haven't replaced sugar with eating broccoli in order to add years to my life--but I did see two birds I had never seen before! A Louisiana Waterthrush…
DRILLING FOR BLACK GOLD Today my son taught me how to use a drill. It gave me the thrill of riding on a roller coaster and I laughed aloud with maniacal glee! The power of it, punching holes with a roar! We "made…
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE A few posts back, I-Was-There-And-Back-Again commented on this photo, saying the chair looked like it had droopy rabbit ears. One week later, the chair looks like this: On the deck, there is …
JUST US This morning the national weatherman proudly proclaimed his delight there was no snow in the 48 states--except a little around the Great Lakes. I guess that would be US! We definitely have over 12 inches. It i…
IT’S IN THE COLOR I suspect that nowadays, my “special places” are mostly special trees, and these mostly in the fall. There was once a perfect orange maple on the way to town that grew on the edge of a woods, at an…
MAKING IT YOURS In her second book, Happy the Land, Louise Dickinson Rich talks about special places:“Have you ever seen a place—a house, a meadow lying lazy in the sun, a walled garden, a reedy bend of river—and felt, f…