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Today We Celebrate Easter
Gardenia, Naples Botanical Garden This is the most consequential day in the Christian faith. This is the foundation of my faith, what I believe in. This year my thoughts have been focused on why I...
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Reflections: Clean up in Isle 80 (years)
It was our last visit to the Naples Botanical Garden and I worked my way from the Brazilian Garden to the Water Garden to see which lilies the sun would illuminate as it peeks through and over the...
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Macro Monday: A New Life
I took this photo at the Naples Botanical Garden a couple of weeks ago and I keep coming back to it, intrigued by the movement, the grace, the colors. Most of all I am enjoying the varying thoughts...
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A New Decade: New Challenges
Jim was in the hospital again for five days so I have had a lot of time to think, or more accurately dance around thoughts that have earned squatter’s rights in my brain. Jim & I have been in...
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Lens-Artist Challenge: Illustrate a Favourite Quote or Poem
We have gone through a tough couple of months with our Florida rebuild and serious health issues for my husband. He was caught in the barbs of turning 80, afraid he was going to die from blood clots...
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The Other Side of East
Never look directly into a sunrise, it will hurt your eyes her mother, her grandmother, her aunt all told her. So she learned to search for the light on the other side of east where the light shows us...
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Autumn Surprise in my 80th Year
We left the house this morning not very early, maybe 7:30, but it was still dark except for a slight lighting of the sky telling us dawn was rubbing her eyes and would meet us somewhere between home...
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Lens-Artist Challenge: Recharge
It seems like my battery needs recharging more frequently as I am finishing up my eightieth decade. I spend a lot of time thinking about the changes we, my husband and I, can take – maybe need to take...
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Late Summer Joy
I haven’t been going out for photography shoots for a long time even though I see wonderful “photo compositions” as we drive through our rural country side on our way to breakfast as the sun is...
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Lens-Artist Challenge: Simplicity
This week Philo, whose blog is Philosophy Through Photography, is asking us to illustrate “Simplicity” through our photography. What fun it is to think about what simplicity means to me and what...
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Lens-Artist Challenge: Spiritual Sites
I’m thinking a lot about what it means to be turning 80 in another year and even reading a book on aging for women from the perspective of the Christian concept of Jubilee – for women who are moving...
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Finding Joy: Wrens Moved In
I decided that I wanted to put out some of the bird houses that hang in our three-season room. This is the only one that was moved because Jim didn’t seem excited about having his moved outdoors but...
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Transitioning from 2022 to 2023
I feel off balance at the beginning of this new year. Maybe I was assuming that the beginning of a new year would result in the obliteration of the old year and a fresh start without any garbage from...
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Just a Little Time Outside
Haven’t been out for many walks lately as I have been consumed by choosing products for our Florida rebuild after the storm surge. I also made the decision (in one of my less sane moments) to make...
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Thinking About Photography (and Aging)
I watched a video this week and the two photographers, Ian Plant and Colleen Miniuk, talked about how, from their perspective, there are no rules in photography (the example they used was the rule of...
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I Feel the Seasons Changing
Early last week I stepped out on my front porch before the sun was up over the trees of the hedgerow and I felt late summer. The air was cool and dry on my skin and I heard the silence of the morning...
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Treasures of my Mind
Oh my, what do I treasure. I spent some time looking around the house and there are lots of items purchased in foreign countries that could be treasures, but on the other hand they are just items. I...
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A Focus on Beauty: Gentle Color for Aging
The constant news coverage of the bad and the ugly and the corrupt can lead me over the cliff of believing the whole world is evil. My antidote for this is to turn the TV off and focus on what is...
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Coping with…
A magical sunrise on our second morning in Michigan. What I couldn’t capture was the sparkle of the snow on the branches in the lower right. The rising sun was positioned perfectly to make this...
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Notes About This & That and Aging
I was waiting in the car while Jim ran into the hardware store, getting a little perturbed that he had stopped at a table of discounted merchandise outside the front door. I was in pain and wanted to...
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