Downpour!!
Wow, did that start coming down fast. While walking the dog, too, of course.
View ArticlePic of the day – Wet Morning
This blog has moved from Posterous to WordPress. — Finally, it looks like really Spring. Wet nights, warm flowering days.
View ArticlePic of the day – Forsythia
The flowers right now are all purple and gold, or blue and yellow.
View ArticlePic of the day – Blossoming
Can’t get to Shapiro Library along South U, but there are advantages to the detour.
View ArticlePic of the day – Frosted Strawberries
My ex, the garden pro, insisted that all I needed to do to protect the garden from last night’s freeze warning was a tarp. This morning checked the yard. All good, no frost. Until I took up the tarp....
View ArticlePic of the day – A Pair of Scholar Athletes!
These two are not just good looking, but also smart, talented, funny, and athletic! Whoa!!
View ArticleBreathing: In Memory of Rose Ann (Broussard Cooper) Anderson
I’ve been silent on this blog recently because I had much bigger things on my mind. I received a phone call a couple weeks ago that my mom was in the hospital, but not to worry. Abbreviating the...
View ArticlePic of the day – White Clematis
I didn’t know clematis could be white, but it is very lovely.
View ArticlePic of the day – Roses
I haven’t been able to post because my new phone (which is now my only camera) lost the ability to email. Anyway, I just had an idea how to work around it, and Oh!, it looks like it will work. Nice! My...
View ArticlePic of the day – Sweetness
Tonight we took TY out for dinner at the same restaurant we went to for his first night in America. This is probably the last time we’ll go out together as a ‘family’ before he returns to Japan. I took...
View ArticlePic of the day – Farewells
At the airport I realized that we had many pictures of TY, but none with me. So we fixed that quick before he left. Then we came home, and slept. The house feels awful empty and quiet tonight.
View ArticlePic of the day – Two Moons
Two months ago today I believed my mom had just moved from the ICU to a regular hospital room. Instead, tomorrow will be the two month anniversary of when they said hospice. Two moons.
View ArticlePic of the day – Angry at the Flowers
Angry at the flowers because they bloom. Because they bloom with hot colors. Because they aren’t sweet. Because they got confused and came in small and ruffled. Because there are only two of them....
View ArticlePic of the day – What I saw on my walk
Every day another flower. The heat of summer. Autumnal mornings. August afternoons. “Making hay” without ceasing. Then the rain, and you stop of necessity. An unexpected quiet. A dim brightness within...
View ArticlePic of the day – Something finally bloomed
Earth Day. The long harsh winter is (mostly) over. The physical injuries that have been stopping me from blogging are not completely healed, but the worst of the pain is gone. 11 months since my mother...
View ArticleA Strange Resurrection
I pretty much quit my "pic of the day" and "M’Histoire" blog posts after my mother died. It’s been a while. Before my mother died, I talked with her often, usually by phone. Because it wasn’t always...
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