I would like to pet you

would you hurt me if i did? maybe i’m just living dangerously…standing this close to the sun.

the sun was photobombed by a moth

I took this with my iPhone, while i was shopping for perennials (most are 50% now) …I never saw the moth until i uploaded images i had snapped while shopping. I was shocked! Lucky me.

tree bark turn green when the rain falls

This tree is Mobile, Alabama…tree bark turns green in Birmingham too. While the tree remains dry, the bark is brown.  i love the Southern rains, always strong & heavy, nothing subtle about rain that falls here.  It is magic to drive the roads i do everyday, or to just look at my own backyard &…

lights of downtown Mobile, Alabama

I LOVED Mobile, Alabama. We brought our daughter to college @ University of South Alabama…then my husband & i took a stroll downtown. Music playing, people laughing & everyone out & about…all having a great time. I can’t wait to go back.

the tree branches in Mobile are extraordinary

the pictures are crap, but i was in the car & I wanted to show, anyone who cared to see, the trees in Mobile. The stretch across the streets forever. Absolutely defying gravity in my opinion.

my Bat Mitzvah speech to my daughter

  Most people fall into categories to define who they are. I believe it is my nature to try to simplify my life by putting labels on things and on people. I tried to do so with you. When you were 2, I once watched you stack your wooden blocks into towers, red up, animals…

It’s all good

i love a place where you can have your errands done all in one place. Yes, I’d like a smoked sausage dog & some mobile home parts on the side. Because, you know? Its all good. Somewhere in Southern Alabama.

ok, this is really weird

i bought the broken “Amy” sign & randomly just stuck it in one of the garden beds a few months ago. (amy sign was originally a sign that said, “DREAM”) So my Phlox David was only knee high last year, but check it out in this shot. It has grown taller then the AMY sign….