planted in my garden in honor of my maternal grandmother & her mother. my great grandmother immigrated to Vermont from Scotland, by herself, when she was 18 years old. I love knowing her courage & hope that is in me.
Year: 2014
rescuing the flowers
i cut all my flowers in the gardens because the cold is coming. i’d rather them be toasty warm inside my house. EVERYWHERE. Lucky me.
a Husky, a creek & two swat team agents
doing what boys & dogs are meant to do… Nala, my Husky, has never been down to the creek, it seemed too steep for her to climb down. I brought a long lead, tied her to a steal bench on the embankment above the creek. As soon as she saw her boy down there, she…
wee veggies are delightful
the last images are sweet potatoes made into…wee monsters? i wish i could say that i grew these. but they came from a friend’s garden & when i saw them, i knew i had to share her treasures.
teaching the artist to SEE…
this is my Monday, after school, art class…three 1st grade girls (my classes are no more then 3 children at a time, that i way, i get to create art with them) i know these girls have been taught all day long, so i make my teaching very brief. At first, it is difficult to…
gardens remain mum
i planted two types of white mums last spring. i bought them in the grocery store, i believe they were intended as mother’s day gifts. i took them home & separated them into three sections, planting them in a hodge-podge way. i watched them struggle through the heat of Alabama summers. i wondered if they…
Alabama’s oldest restaurant
I’ve never been to downtown Bessemer. A friend & i were in the area because we needed an army/Navy store for our son’s ‘swat team’ Halloween costumes. She told me she was taking us to the Bright Star restaurant because i’d never been before. The town is very small, very old & quite empty….
poppy weeping
but still a stunner. this was photographed last spring, from my garden. I stumbled across it while looking for something else & thought it would be nice to show it again.
my brother’s cat
My brother brought home, to his first apartment at the age of 20, this cat. He lived for almost 20 years & passed away last week.
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