yellow stands

my daughter’s family birthday party was yesterday. I bought two bouquets at Whole Foods (great prepackaged flowers less then Publix!) & my dog & I went outside for what was left in my yard. I took the bouquets apart & mixed them up in my very small vases & I had 10 vases to scatter…

hanging in there

just like all of life’s living things. Doing the best we can, blooming in strange times, hoping to be noticed. I spotted these beauties as soon as I rounded the path.

steel & feathers

well, not bird feathers, but just as soft. ironically growing around a STOP sign.

emphasizing an underexposed image

i had no light, i loved what i saw shoved in a corner, where the light did not bend enough to light this up, to do what was in my sight, justice. i did manage to hold the camera steady, but it was too obviously underexposed when i loaded it onto iPhoto. i’ve pulled it…

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…