Here She Comes, the Bride!

 I can’t believe it’s been almost two weeks since I promised to reveal the bride soon, but then I can’t quite believe I’m finding time to post considering the full-treadmill-mode I’m in at work. So…

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First Day of Classes, WIW

It’s been a while since I’ve joined the Visible Monday crowd, and I thought it might be a good excuse for showing my Back-to-School outfit. It’s always such a jerk back to reality, going from…

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Harvest Time in the Garden . . .

A bit of foreshadowing — red hiding among the green foliage on the Scarlet Runner climbing the teepee frame in our back garden. On the back deck, a row of tomato plants looking discouragingly, unremittingly,…

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Art and/of Perfume

Caesar Boetius van Everdingen’s Girl in a Wide Hat (oil on canvas, c. 1645-1650) symbolizes summer as convincingly as does the painting of lady Winter by the same artist, hung on an adjoining wall in…

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Island Paddling

 Whoops! Someone, quick, tell Kristin to cover her eyes . . . . She had a recent misadventure of the paddling sort, and the trauma is too recent for her to see this post. The…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.