Wow. If I had a nickel for every red bud on that mighty red maple, I’d be rich as a quadrillionaire!😘
A good book can make you feel right at home. A book is like a garden that blossoms and blooms. Books are like friends. Books are good things to have. “If you only read the books, everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” Haruki Murakami
Early morning is a favorite time of day. Just sitting, listening to the quiet.
Looking at today’s weather, it was 37° feeling like 29°. Here are hellebore flowers blooming on this cold, windy morning during the Lenten season just before Easter. Though not in the rose family, hellebores are known as Lenten Roses and are among the few flowers vital enough to grow and bloom in the snows and ice of late winter and early spring. They appear to be dainty and delicate, and yet.
It’s Mikey’s Day! Hey! Hey! It’s Caturday! 😻
In the beginning there was a thought, and then a wish, and then a fish, and a fish, and a fish, and a fish. I had an idea to fold some fishes, and I wanted them to be blue, so I folded a variety in eight or ten different shapes with one pattern of blue paper, but it wasn’t ‘right.’ I tried a different paper, but that wasn’t right either. Then another in plain white to better show the folds in the paper. Nothing satisfied me. Then I thought about trying tissue paper and painting the fishes. I lost count of how many fishes I folded. Then I had this idea to make a fish sampler. Making wishes on all my fishes—I like this one!
Have a good day! 🌖
The clock change for daylight saving time always throws off my biorhythm for a day or so. This morning the ringing clock woke me for work. I really didn’t want to get up. Lying in bed, I thought of the documentary film we saw last night in Ambler, “EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert.” Loved it!!
The beauty of change. Think I’ll add this to the many wonders of the our world.
They say every picture tells a story. I can’t help but wonder what’s the story here. Did he just happen to sit down in the chair across the table from her? Were they strangers? Or were they a couple sitting together, traveling in two different worlds?
Here’s a drawing from a while ago of Mikey and Willey sleeping on the sofa. Mikey is up there on cushions on the left, and on the right are Willey’s hind quarters and striped tail.
“The more cats you have, the longer you’ll live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.” Charles Bukowski
Good luck trying to make a balloon behave in the breeze so you can get a good picture? Can’t be done! Or can it?! 😘
Side by side, two young girls sharing space and time. Slowing down, sitting down. . .taking turns talking and listening. . .together. . .stepping out of time.
This scene takes me back to the time Dan and I did this together. Time after time, we made time to sit down and read a book together, quietly sharing thoughts and feelings. I smile remembering. (Our book was, “The Courage to Be Happy.”)
What a winter! It’s great to see you! We’ll be back again sometime!
It snowed again overnight. ❄️
Yesterday’s snow was wet and heavy, perfect for building a snowman so I went out for a walk, hoping to find one for a photo. But no luck, or so I thought, until circling back toward home just down the street, there she was, big and beautiful—my very first snowlady, 6 feet tall with curvy curves, orange eyes, a rosebud mouth, and a silvery rhinestone cowgirl top hat! 🤩
That’s Mike, my upstairs neighbor, outside at 5:38 this morning cleaning off snow from his truck. Looks like about 12 inches. Glad I can wait til later to do my car—it’s right behind his truck.
How many times I look up in the sky and think to myself. . .wish i could fly!
“He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” — 10x8” — Origami
I finished this one just in time. It’s perfect for saying how I woke up this morning. Got up late, feeling droopy, sky’s all dreary. Atmospheric pressure weighing me down. It’s raining heavy, temperatures climbing, foggy air on the way down. Perfect day to hang low.😉
How lovely to have the time to go somewhere and just sit there, like you belong.
Sunday morning, sipping French Roast by the fireplace, making room for Tommy. Looking over to see Dan’s interpretation of Tommy in papier-mâché clay. Tommy perfectly poised, as Dan builds step by step allowing layer on layer to slowly dry by the fire, the perfect place. 😻❤️
Wandering, wondering. Two distinctly different patterns of footsteps, one in the snow, one on the snow, weighty and feathery, sinking and sliding. Side-by-side who were they? Crow 🐦⬛ or rabbit🐇 or squirrel 🐿️ or raccoon🦝 or deer🦌 or fox🦊. Did they travel together? Early or late in the day? Where are they now? Did they survive the freezing cold? I hope so.❤️
Yesterday in the loo at The Mill, sitting down, i looked up and right there just above my knees, front and center, 24” x 30” — Bob Marley, the King of Reggae. His image took me back to reggae rhythms and messages of peace, love, and justice. I could almost hear him singing, “yeah, everything‘s gonna be all right!” ✌🏻 ❤️ 🙏🏻
Last summer‘s blossoms blooming all over again on the snow. Every ending brings some new beginning. Life goes on. . .and on.
“Dancing In The Rain, Purple Rain” —10x8” — Origami
Dan sent me a picture of a woodblock print that I thought was pretty cool. Thanks, honey! I made my own interpretation of it. Here’s the original:
Friday morning, the sun rose up and stoked the sky.
6:00AM—This is it: 17° with windchill at -2°, high winds and a steady drop in degrees all day. I chuckle to think how two months ago I wondered if we would see any snow this winter season.😆
No new pictures to post, here’s an oldie but goodie to brighten the day. Maneki-neko is the Japanese cat with raised paw said to bring happiness and good fortune.
“Life is like a mirror. Smile at life and it smiles back at you.” Peace Pilgrim
When life appears buried in bone-chilling ice, if you stay out in the cold air long enough to look around, you’ll find a spot of bright red to warm your day.
