Category: USA
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Snow
Our backyard takes on a new life whenever winter storms blow this way. The first blast of the season left ten inches of snow this week. It’s fast melting today, but I wanted to share some of these wintry scenes with everyone particularly our relatives and friends who live in the balmier parts of this…
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The Power of Petroglyphs
I’ll admit this. Before I went to Albuquerque in 2006, I did know about the images and designs carved on rocks centuries ago, I just did not know that they were called petroglyphs. Now, it’s one of my favorite words – PETROglyph, petroGLYPH, PETROGLYPH! Our recent visit to Taliesin West reminded me that I’d written this after a trip…
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Taliesin West
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” Frank Lloyd Wright The desert has a voice. And Frank Lloyd Wright heard it a long time ago. He arrived in Scottsdale in the 1930s and ten years later had built Taliesin West as his winter residence, architectural studio and campus. Taliesin…
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“Big Bugs” – Big Buzz!
Never imagined I’d look admiringly at a praying mantis, but psstt! that’s an old thought. It’s actually the first insect one sees on entering the Desert Botanical Garden in Scottsdale, Arizona where there’s a “Big Bugs” exhibition on until Jan. 1, 2012. We all came away excited with these oversized, sometimes whimsical wood sculptures of…
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Crazy for Lighthouses
I have always been drawn to these beacons of light on rocky shores. While their purpose is critical to seafarers, it’s their location that always attracted me. I must be a real romantic at heart. The salt sea air, pink granite rocks, brooding fir trees, craggy cliffs, an imminent sunset – cast your cares to…
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Happiness around the world
I’m still waiting for warmer weather, so I’m not too happy at the moment, but Bob has some good observations to share about the subject of happiness. Here’s his input 🙂 Recently, I attended a lecture about the distribution and causes of happiness around the world. The speaker was Ed Diener, a psychologist who has…
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Bali Night
The skin underneath my fingernails is still stained yellow from the fresh turmeric we were peeling and chopping this past Saturday. Fresh turmeric looks much like ginger except that when you peel off the skin, you find a pleasing orangish-yellow piece of root. The hue is so exciting, a revelation. The shock of color brightens…
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Bulbul Flashback
Where are the red-whiskered bulbuls I saw, the red kapok flowers that so entranced? Snow falls softly outside, no creature to be seen. Only Canon memories color this wintry whiteness.
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We are family
We had an opportunity to have family portraits taken in Florida recently and wanted to share a couple of those photos with all of you. I’ve been somewhat negligent posting new blogs but I’ll keep adding new ones as the spirit moves me. It was much easier to focus on it during our travels last…
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