The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future. (Margaret Millar) Ahhhhhhh…the melodious scent of lilacs is practically enough to put me into a trance. I can’t really think of another more distinctly memorable essence with such direct links to my childhood.… Continue reading “Sweet Dreams, Lilac”
Someone asked me how it feels having become the mother of a twenty-three year old today. How does it feel? Let’s see…it feels weird. I remember being twenty-three myself and it doesn’t feel like it was that long ago. So it also reminds me about my own aging, of course. That does, and my knees… Continue reading May Good Luck Go With You, And Happiness Too
All day long, she feeds & protects her "new" babies... The second "family" we've had in our little birdhouse this summer!
Six snaps within minutes of each other yesterday!
Caught a hummingbird grabbing some breakfast out in the garden this morning!
Far off views of the rain from summer squalls pouring down onto the Blue Ridge Mtns, simultaneously mists rise up from the around the mtns in Shenandoah National Park forest, at sunset...
It's campfire season...time to toast some marshmallows...this one's a little overdone!
Sunset at the pier. - Wachapreague, Eastern Shore, VA
Had an early morning visitor today!
After a storm at sunset...toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. — June 13/14
A Stroke of Good Fortune 