earlier festivities...

feel better about all the stinkin' yellow walnut leaves filling the yard by imagining each one wears one of those silly smiley faces

raindrop embroidery

woodpile in the rain

trying a new Friday tradition...

(inspired by another random blog out there in Blogland)


Well that wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be!

morning workout!

who took the bomp from the bompalompalomp?

who took the ram from the ramalamadingdong?

Maybe I'm way behind the times, but I can't stop listening to Le Tigre!

See you later!

green makes me happy too

(looking out the back of the barn)

Happy Monday!

I want to see this movie:

trying to see what Monet saw

along Sunnyside Drive, a back road side route I take sometimes - often these fields are full of deer - on this day it was full of butterflies

"Exotic Landscape", 1910 by Henri Rousseau

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day."

E.B. White

bits of my weekend

no, that's not a carved coconut head decoration under the eave overlooking the backyard - it's a giant wasp nest we discovered today!

August morning

one last encore from the phlox:

terror of the lawn, ever on the hunt:



this year's veg garden: acorn squash, zucchini, tomatoes, beets, peppers, broccoli, Swiss chard, eggplant, basil

do haiku, the month is new

a walk up the road
after August's first rainfall
last light of the day