a little frayed around the edges

I guess this is what happens to us after the first bloom of youth has passed. If it is our appearance that we are most concerned with-it is because society wants us to believe it is important to continue to look young. Corporations sell ‘snake-oil’ formulas & injections to keep us blooming, the more expensive,…

3 cents to travel by horse

i can afford that price, i just need a horse. i took this i phone picture yesterday in Nashville, TN. crazy, to read this sign while standing beside a four lane street, near Vanderbilt hospital, cars rushing past. i looked up the word, ‘macadamized road’ too… first known use of the word was 1824. it…

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…

paint job interrupted by winter

green primer, i suppose, covers the windows. This beautiful old building is located on Church Street in Burlington Vermont.

this opening peony looks like a goose tush

shake those tail feathers. peonies remind me of childhood & my mother. my mother loved those peonies way back in the 1970s. i loved them because she did. i am 8 years old & sitting on cold, dark green grass, the taste of the blades so sweet at first, then tasting of old gum. doesn’t…

phones can capture moments

that mean the most. photographs can be art & they can be the best moments captured. unplanned moments that squeeze our hearts when viewed later. at the time, this was my every weekday life. a chore. carpool with my dogs in the back of my old SAAB. I would get my youngest first, then to…