head bowed in honor......

Thank You....

your "silence sings

our national anthem".....

rising........

Rising....by Lhasa de Sela

this video decribes my life lately....

but like my feathered muse....

i'm beginning to rise....

there is a dream in my heart....

home

have you ever hoarded your dreams...

fearful that if you shared them

someone might steal them...

even worse..we sometimes fear

we're not worthy of our own dreams.

so we quitclaim them to others...saying...

here...take my magic...

i won't be needing it...

and i'll even throw in the wand.

we fill our days writing to do lists...

and thinking up goals.

but dreams don't like to be analyzed...

they're not comfortable on the couch.

they prefer to take up residence in the heart...

where they can use ancient keys...

to unlock doors...

spilling liquid light of recognition...

into our sighs of relief...

when we realize...

we're home.

~marilyn maciel

i'm working on it.........

before i die......

i LOVE this...........

our lost sentinels.....

mother nature has had a serious attitude lately...

the storm night before last was the worst this area has seen

since hurricane hugo made his march across our little hamlet!

as far as i know...there were no personal injuries

but....oh....so many...beautiful...old... trees...

lost.....

trying to navigate around our county has been

like finding your way thru a maze...

road after road is completely blocked...

power lines down...

i've always heard when life deals you a lemon

squeeze it and make lemonade....

maybe we need to use these wisened...old...sentinels

to make furniture.....

like kaspar hamachers chairs....

the crook that got away.......

need your funny bone tickled today?

someone called in a while ago to report that there was a burglar
alarm sounding in their neighborhood. i heard the
deputy take the call and start cruising the streets in
that neighborhood. “nothing on this street…i’ll try
the next….” this went on for about ten minutes before
she figured out where the “alarm” was coming from.
you guessed it……..no alarm….cicadas!
i don’t care who you are…..THAT’S FUNNY!

mothers......

being a mom was....and is...the most challenging job i've ever had.

there's never cut and dried choices when it comes to raising children.

i fall somewhere between the two nursery rhymes below....

and my children have grown to become loving mothers

of their own wee ones....

Happy Mother's Day all......

"there was an old woman who lived in a shoe...

she had so many children she didn't know what to do...

she gave them some broth without any bread...

then whipped them all soundly...

and put them to bed."
~mother goose nursery rhyme

"there was an old woman who lived in a shoe...

she was a kindhearted mom who knew exactly what to do.

she raised all her children with patience and love...

never once did she give them a spank..shake..or shove.

her children all learned to be gentle towards others...

and good parents too...when they became fathers and mothers.

from their days in the shoe they learned this about living:

kindness..not force..is the gift that keeps giving.

~jordan riak

....i live without envy

"with a few flowers in my garden...

half a dozen pictures...

and some books...

i live without

envy..."

~lope de vega

the pull of another world...

"if i find in myself desires

which nothing in this world can satisfy...

the only logical explanation is

that i was made

for another world...."

~c.s. lewis

feeling the pull of another world

pulsing through

my gypsy

soul....

a gladdening of the eye...

weed...

any undesired...

uncultivated plant...

undesired by whom?

the birds love them....

my goats would eat any that dared

grace their pasture...

I'll admit...

I don't want them in my yard...

but they gladden my eyes...

painting the ditches...

as I traverse the rural backroads

of this sleepy...

southern...

county...

on moths and summer nights

oh my..........

look at this moth...

made by MisterFinch...

from a vintage tablecloth....

close your eyes...

can you hear it's soft thumping...

against the porch light...

on a hot....sultry...

summer night.....there are so many wonderful

artist on etsy!

more ideas than money.....sigh.....

My veggie "chillrens" are looking pretty good.

The bush beans are coming along...

The broccolli looks wonderful!

Those are carrots coming up down both sides.....


Nothing like a fresh salad....wish the tomatoes were ready!




I've never grown artichokes before...or eaten them

for that matter...I really planted these to decorate with....

Guess I'll be picking cherries before next weekend....they're always

ready around Mother's Day.....

It's time to start some flowers in my potager and "pretty

it up" some...I have soooo many ideas and sooooooo

little money......