My Way of Living [08/08/16] 

  • Some peas and quiet please

    It’s a fine line, that moment between sleep, and wakefulness. The spare seconds that your brain allows you before it starts the midnight ramblings. The two o’clock wanderings through memories, and to do lists. The four am wakeup call from Bootsie, who clearly telegraphs by scratching the carpet, I want to go out NOW! And during al…

  • I love poppies, if I had the space, I would be growing every variety here.This beauty was part of a clump that grew on a corner, and every time I drove home I would make a mental note to bring the camera next time but I kept forgetting. In the evening the sun glowed through the petals. The day after I shot this, we had a torrentia…

  • Living in the world of Downton Abbey

    Excuse me a moment while I ring the upper housemaid for tea. Do you take lemon? I know you must think I am off of my rocker. But I have been ploughing through the first season DVD of Downton Abbey, and I am enraptured, engulfed, and engaged. Not to be married, but to finish season one. "… shall I have the butler take your coat? Wi…

  • Motorized Menace.

    Our aged condo neighbor across the hall is a wonderful guy, with a interesting character. He's a great neighbor with only one problem, he is now a motorized menace. We forgave him when he left the tap running all night into the kitchen sink, which resulted in our condo, and all the storage lockers below him, being flooded with wat…

  • In August as summer heads into middle age

    The sun that ripens the wheat in August ages Summer further. Her fine lines becoming visible in the fading blossoms, leaves gently turning, fluttering in the trees. The heat less intense, mornings start without the fanfare, but more gratitude, skin bathing in golden light.Softened, relaxed and settled into her daily routine, she g…