It’s another day in paradise. Things have greened up like you wouldn’t believe. How flora and fauna can go from dormant and colorless to bursting with life of every hue is a miracle most appreciated this year. In 5 days, I will have been retired a year. Maybe it is because the days have not…
Month: May 2019
Coloring Club Plus — 5/26/19
The “P” coloring today is for Poppies. I colored it for poppies. The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the first solo album by English musician Sting, released in the United States on 1 June 1985. The album reached number three on the UK Albums Chart. It reached number two on the Billboard 200. In…
#SLS — Pearl Jam — Crazy Mary
Jim Adams is the illustrious and ever gracious host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: Awesome, bitchin’, boss, copacetic, crazy, excellent, fabulous, hunky dory, keen, neat, phat, righteous, slamin’, slick, spiffy, sweet, wicked, uptight and outta sight are all ways of saying Cool/Groovy/Hip/Nifty/Radical/Swell which is our prompt for this week. Here are the “rules”:…
3.2.1 Quote Me! Challenge — A Light Amid Dark
I read a book as a teen, called, “The Peaceable Kingdom,” by author Jan de Hartog. I was unable to find the quote out in google land and no longer have the book (or haven’t seen it in ages if I do.) The book is a fictionalized novel about the Quaker religion. What I remember…
Good Father Damien
Image by imazite from Pixabay Father Damien had been a priest at the parish affectionately known as The Triangle for 7 years as of today. The Triangle was called such due to the triangle shape of the church and because of the triangle-shaped property it sat on at the intersection of Larry, Moe, and Shemp…
Saturday Mix – Mad About Metaphor, 25 May 2019 — Coffee Talk
My first job aside from babysitting was at 17 years old, in a small, family-owned bakery on a small-town main street. One half of the storefront had the baked goods cases and built-in cabinets (where the back was open to the back, so bread could be slid in from there.) The other half of the…
Saturday Doodads — The Yard
This edition of Doodads will take you on an abbreviated tour of the yard, as I walked around on my way out to the mailbox. The first picture is the growing fancy Asiatic Lilies I planted in the fall. These are going to be gorgeous! They were planted in suet cages to keep the ground…
Tao Talk 