saved evidence

if you don’t send them to camp…this is evidence of my daughter & I, playing. the photo was taken about 9 years ago. I have been informed that I don’t do anything with my children. I love when I am able to come up with examples of me doing exactly that. Summer vacation is very…

My new baby pink…

Hydrangea. I found this hydrangea at leaf & Petal, on the clearance shelf, this spring. The flowers were starting to brown & it had lost most of it’s leaves. Putting it into the ground was a bit of a gamble, but I figured it was spring & maybe it would know what to do on…

Steel bars covering glass & bone

I use a program to try & make my images look as they did in life. I wish I could fix the world just as easily. Steel bars with the offer of hot wings behind them. A security camera painted green so as to blend into the roof. I don’t live near places like this….

Caught in the pincushions

These classic lavender colored flowers have become one of my favorites. They last in a vase for almost two weeks-as long as speak sweetly to them, as you trim their toes & and cool their bath water. Some flowers seem to reach for the sun, others close their petals for the night, Pincushions feel as…

Why I love small villages

The stores were all closed on Sunday. When they locked their doors some leave things like this hanging outside their door. Mutual respect. See it & then leave it. Peace to all who enter, no soliciting…

Even in your imperfection…

You still dazzle me. Cosmos appear so delicate, but they are very tough, very much like a woman. So cover me in cosmos, mostly white, sprinkle Queen Anne’s lace blossoms on me, just enough to make me sneeze them back up in the air, so I can watch them fall like snow flakes.

Bistro Two-Eighteen

Uncle Tom Saab. I didn’t know that when I married into this family, that one of my new brother’s Michael Saab blew fire or that one of my new Uncles would cook so unbelievably, yummy food. Actually, the whole family rocks in their own way & I love them all.