Yukon Trading Co.

One of my favorite local (privately owned) businesses.  Located five minutes from my house, much to my husband’s chagrin. The owner is a wonderful, warm & giving woman. P.S. the fish? I it sits beside my fireplace b/c my husband loves to fish at Saab Lake in Pell City. This is his biggest catch yet….

reflect your life in glass

I’ve said this a thousand times. But…here is 1,001. For our own self-preservation, support your local, privately owned businesses (no matter where you are). These owners are our neighbors. If they succeed, then we all do. Besides, life reflected in glass that is cylindrical, distorts it just enough to make it all the more beautiful….

garden art made from whatever…

My husband travels the Deep South for work on occasion.  He returned from one trip with buckets of fossilized coral & polished stones. The coral had come from a small town south of Savannah, Georgia, the red rocks came from Texas, but all from the same customer. Everything in the buckets was worthy of viewing,…

my private battle with depression

the glass is half empty. i remind myself there are different ways to see, not look, but see. my first thought i had while i was editing this photograph, was how alone the tree is. there was no other tree within sight of it. this tree stands out & apart. depressing…BUT, is it? this tree…