The following were shots I took this summer. I was experimenting with the colour isolation feature on my Canon PS S5IS. {I’m dreaming of a Nikon D5100…just like the one I accidentally read about this morning….. ;-)} To join the challenge: A Word A Week Photography Challenge: Flower Continue reading Flower
I went out today with my Nokia N95 Camera Phone for my walk rather than the bulkier Canon. I prefer it sometimes as its lighter. Afterward as I looked through what I had taken, I wanted to subtly enhance the mood … so I very gently softened them with Picasa. I like the effect; it captures how I felt today. Lots on my mind. Lots … Continue reading Desiderata
This post is sort of an ‘homage’ in a way to things past. Yesterday was a day to open things up and see what is inside. I did go into our bedroom finally yesterday and began that difficult task. I started with the hardest of those things; the bags with his stuff that the hospital sent home. So I stood there in our bedroom and … Continue reading A Suitcase For Memories
I’ve been drinking too much coffee and indulging in too too many of those rotten cylinders of sin. Two hard-boiled eggs and 2 pieces of cheese for breakfast; then a two hour nap. Umph….I don’t blawdy think so. This kat I fear is soon going to have a posterior region that soon will take up more room on this chair then it should. I am … Continue reading Long Sunday Walks
Inside the light changes and it slides into my cottage world and calls to me. Outside it is fresh & clear. So camera dangling from my neck, furry, rambunctious canine on the end of the leash we embark on adventure. There are beautifully muted colours in fall; lovely linen coloured grass’, dark grapey seed heads against the blue sky. It’s at this time of year … Continue reading The Sunshine called my name…
Inspiration Weekly Photo Challenge: Green Continue reading Its not easy being Green
The looming beast of the ‘Old Vic’ had been conquered and so the next spiral in the journey was at hand [see Thameswood – Part One]. Like with all journey’s, there is that element of the Hero’s Journey[Wikipedia] afoot in the narrative. Perhaps the guiding archetype of all life altering Journey’s resembles that of the Hero’s Journey. So now I guess you could say I … Continue reading Thameswood Lodge (part 2) ~ The Hero’s Journey
I’m not one for “revising”. I mean, seems like a wasteful endeavor, certainly something my Grandmother would have disapproved of. I have definitely said and done various things I have later regretted. Fighting with Grandma the night before she died was certainly in that category. I was 17 though and I forgave myself long ago. That ate me up for a while. I learned from … Continue reading Daily Prompt: Revisionist History
When I say I have been a primary caregiver twice to someone who was dying, its technically not true; there have been 4x actually. This is the story of my first time. I was married for 9 years from August 4th 1990 to November 19, 1999. On February 14 1991 I choose from a litter of 4 kittens the little gray female one in the … Continue reading Shoe Monster ~ Caregiver Training 101
This Journey through grief has taken a hold of me over the last few days. I can feel its grip in the hollow of my throat. It means to find every last salty tear and rip it from me. Yet I will not wallow in these dark caves. I will not let the shadows become my reality. I’ve experienced these dark days after a loss … Continue reading Thameswood – Part One
I LOVE the ham & cheese submarine sandwiches they sell in gas stations. I love the taste of the gooey processed fake cheese. I adore the questionable fake ham. The smell as I’m heating it up in the microwave…those 2 minutes are torture. I love how it melts out everywhere and if you don’t eat ALL the cheese it will be too hard and cardboardy … Continue reading 5 things you didn’t know about me … but now you do (well… i guess only if you read this)
In June when my sisters family was down I received a high compliment to my efforts. My nieces loved the front garden. When they weren’t either swimming or fishing (which they were 75% of the time), you would find them quietly poking around out front. Lots to see out front too. The collection of plants out front are shade tolarant, woodland natives and non-native perennials, … Continue reading Garden Design: Wilding & Whimsy
There are places where I have felt at the time this is sacred space ~ at home on the riverbanks of the Thames, on the front porch of that home in Dodge, and around the century old oak dining room table that sits in that house; I have shared sacred space. Here now at this Cottage, actually the whole lake, is sacred space to myself … Continue reading The Mount | September 2011
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