Moose-capade

January 6, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

Every Christmas for the 20 years we have been together, Ric has threatened to decorate the front yard (or roof) with a herd of reindeers. Every year, I offer up an emphatic NO! This year, our Ukrainian guests got in on the fracas. They seem to be amused by how easily he baits me. Entertainment […]

Play

October 26, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Photo Play

April 1, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Introduced my granddaughter to one of the photo apps I’ve been using and gave her my phone. Within minutes she created the featured image, speeding through the app as if she’d been doing it forever. Not be outdone, I borrowed the photos she’d taken of herself and created this: Not quite an April Fool’s joke, […]

Gathering of ‘G’s

May 27, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Upright groundhog (3 g’s) Thanks for the fun Cee! Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge is ‘g’ anywhere in the word.

Fun Colours

April 16, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For CalmKate’s Friday Fun – Fun colours.

Just For Fun

April 29, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week: Just for fun.

K and L Things

November 19, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Leaves lingering in Autumn lightKindred kayaks for keeners Light-footed leaper levitating For Cee’s Black & White challenge: things that start with K and L

Preferred Fashion

September 5, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Age allots me the excuse to ignore fashion,invites me to wear bright colours, dance in offbeat shoes, wear hats of any flair,and announce my mood in any given moment. Yes, being a senior citizen is most freeing –not unlike my childish kin. (For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: fashion. Also submitting to V.J.’s weekly challenge: child/ […]

A Dog Knows

July 9, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A trip to the river never fails to surprise –this dog with life-jacket caught my eyes. Ready, he was, to set off downstream,happily dependent on his human team. (Lens-Artists have left their weekly challenge open – the perfect chance to share this sweet photo story with you.)

Tools! (CFFC)

November 7, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Tucked away in the back of tiny yard, next to a parking lot, stands this neat little shed with all its tools lined up. Couldn’t resist taking a picture. My daughter gets credit for this photo, but I had to include it here. Love the contrast between the princess shoes and the drill. (Submitted for […]

Small Town

No big box hereour shops line upin historic rows Our fraganceeau-de-fermeearthen fresh Our spires remindersthat values are simpleand life blessed. (Photo mine)

Origin

Anxiety burnsan acidic devouring confidence impaled –mind wanders to childhood dreamsuncovers fear’s origin. (Tuesdays, I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. I came across this tanka written in May/21 that seemed to match with the image I recently posted on my other blog. I decided to pair them here.)

The Last Train (Sonnet)

We wait at the station, Mother and I,one final stop for her – painless she prays;I busied at bedside – prolonged goodbye –memories and regrets filling our days. “We live too long,” she wearily proclaims“Why must suffering linger till the end?”I plea and bargain, call angelic names,yet the will to survive refuses to bend. The […]