In honor of love lost

My daughter had a wonderful friend, he lived with his mother & grandmother in Bermuda. He called me mom & Sophie called Judah’s mother, mom. both of us moms knew how important their relationship was. i was in the kitchen, one night, trying to make a snack…Sophie walks into the kitchen & i was aware…

my two favorite photos were taken with my phone

my dog, Blue…thought he was a person. when i belted him in my *SAAB station wagon, he thought, “finally, she gets me” i was blessed with Blue for almost 10 years. he followed me from room to room. he was my shadow. my son called Blue, “my brother” because they were born a month apart….

how to freeze wishes for future use…

the childhood impulse to blow these dandelion seeds to the four winds still lives within me. I’m grateful for that. I like the feeling of hope showings it’s shining face. I picked these at their peek & sprayed them with high gloss varnish. i let their stems dry in the sun, on my windowsill.  I…

gardens remain mum

i planted two types of white mums last spring. i bought them in the grocery store, i believe they were intended as mother’s day gifts. i took them home & separated them into three sections, planting them in a hodge-podge way. i watched them struggle through the heat of Alabama summers. i wondered if they…

poppy weeping

but still a stunner. this was photographed last spring, from my garden. I stumbled across it while looking for something else & thought it would be nice to show it again.

wee mums make a HUGE impact

the blue vases stand about 2″ tall, the clear ‘vase’ is a mini salt/pepper shaker. The white rabbits? They are real salt & pepper shakers. Mums in Alabama usually come back year after year. These mums were a gift from my mother-in-law about three years ago. bringing flowers inside does the soul good.

Austin Healey 3000 MkIII

  i was already late for physical therapy…BUT, i pulled right over & photographed this beauty. the little red car that stopped me cold. i want this car. i’m glad i stopped because when i returned an hour later, it was gone…

best way to photograph a spiders web?

a water spritzer for plants. I sprayed this web with wee dots of water & you know what happened? When the morning sun hit it, i saw rainbows. There was no spider on the web at the time & the water dried in minutes. Now that it is fall & Alabama spiders start building HUGE…