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