About 2 years ago I was going through a pretty rough time of things. I was under some rather heavy stress, had enormous financial worries, on the verge of uprooting, and selling my house I’d owned for more than 30 years. I found solace in the beauty and grace of a large pine tree that grew […]
The Beauty of Spring
Ahhh, Spring…the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Spring is the beautiful old magnolia tree that was in my backyard. It was there when we bought the house, over 30 years ago, and grew over time. Its beauty only increased as the years went by, as the tree grew bigger, […]
Mischief and the Motley Crew
Funny how mischief seems to go hand-in-hand with having kids – and pets – isn’t it? Oh, the stories pet parents can tell… And yet, ask anyone to produce photographic evidence of such behavior and chances are they won’t have any. Our pets catch us off-guard, to be sure. And when the camera comes out, […]
The Color Purple
It’s intriguing how a particular color can convey ideas sometimes. Yellow always makes you think of “sunny”, doesn’t it? Purple has some interesting inferences. And it’s a color I’ve always struggled with.
Mirror Reflections
It’s kinda funny how we often see what we want to see, what we wish would be. Watching my granddaughter “pretend” to be all-grown-up got me thinking about the power of our thoughts. The reflections we see are often not true reality, but our dreams – or our fears. What we see, based on what […]