the story about how the spider caught a rainbow

not really a story. i made her (spider) mad. I took the water spritzer for my plants…& i washed her web for her. doesn’t it look grand? the droplets caught light & shattered it into a rainbow. i’m so lucky that she, my halloween spider decorator, decided to build her web above my front door….

he holds my flowers

i took my ridiculous, but necessary, walker outside to see my gardens. I’d been outside only one other time since June 24th & saw that without my attention, things went to crap. kinda like my hip bones. however, today was a small victory. I cut my own flowers, that means my bones have knitted themselves…

a thousand suns

Birmingham Botanical Gardens this past spring. photo by Maggie

i know, very immature

but such fun. i took this last year, but added a few things because i’m still on bed rest & I’ve gone a bit…bored (crazy) Halloween is coming, my second favorite holiday. Nala likes it too. her costume is being a throw rug, who trips people.

my watercolor motorcycle

whenever i paint something for me, i always forget to photograph it, then remember to do so only after its been framed. i still have this motorcycle. i grew up riding on the back of my father’s & my grandfather’s bikes. i don’t have one & will never get on another. the magic they hold…

putting his head in the wolf’s mouth

this photo is of ivy & me & blue.  blue raised ivy from a kitten. ivy loves to play into the dog’s fur, piled high after brushings. the photographs below are of hobbes & blue…they are brothers. the Saab pack. blue helped raise hobbes up from a kitten.  whenever they were outside together, hobbes would…