Month: April 2025
#FF — Symbiotes?
PHOTO PROMPT © Ken Arnopole (friend of Ted Strutz) Symbiotes? Gazette publishes monthly articles urging single seniors to stop looking for love; instead, to search for the companionship of a symbiotic relationship. Myrtle, life-long romantic, cancels her subscription. Myrtle accepts when Virginia invites her on a cruise, hopeful that Mr. Right will be aboard. She…
Dawn Redwood
My adventure with Dawn Redwoods began in 2023. There is no sense in reinventing the wheel, so if you want to see how it all began, go here. There was another update in September 2023 here. The final update, before today’s, in March 2024, was here. The pictures above show you what they look like…
A2Z 2025 — Day 26 — Zebra Mallow (Malva Zebrina)
Zebra Mallow This is a plant I knew nothing about when I bought it, beyond the pretty picture on the plant stake. I knew it looked like a geranium blossom and it was a perennial. I’m so glad to have bought it. The first couple of years it went ga-ga and re-seeded itself in its…
A2Z 2025 — Day 25 — Yarrow
Yarrow I’ve had yarrow of multiple colors. It seems to sprout up wherever it wants. Right now there is white yarrow growing between the cracks of the driveway. I love not only their colorful blossoms but their feathery foliage. Which of these yarrow are your favorite? One more day to go and A2Z 2025 will…
A2Z 2025 — Day 24 — e(X)hibit — was FFF 13 — Tiffany Lamp exhibit at Muskegon Museum of Art (11/17/23)
I tried to think of something in the yard or in the house that could use “x” but couldn’t, so I searched past posts for something that might work. Here it is. Hope you enjoy it. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill…
#SLS — “Down to You,” by Joni Mitchell, from Court and Spark
Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark is #113 on the 2012 list and #110 in the 2020 list of Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Court and Spark was Joni’s 6th studio album. It was an immediate commercial and critical success—and remains her most successful album. I’m actually surprised at…
Tao Talk 