Searching for a Balance

This morning I got a step stool out on the back step, and aimed my camera toward the nest - so -  now we're trying to stay away from...

two from the thrift store

I've had such problems keeping celery from getting wilted and rubbery. Then I read - I think in Leila's blog, but I'm not sure...

Here we have the good girl eating her cauliflower - steamed, with tarragon - I never suspected that a cat would care for vegetables. It st...

We came home from church Easter morning, and noticed this nest up on our drainpipe near the back door. It couldn't have been there Satu...

   ( The Three Marys at the Tomb ,   by Wm. Adolphe Bouguereau) Three Days Three days our world was broken; the Lord of l...

"Behold, my servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.  As many were astonished at him -- his ...

On a lighter note, today was Dolly's eighth birthday.  Here she is posing, against the sun, I'm afraid - with a cat you have to jus...

"Have you ever loved someone and wanted desperately to somehow make him or her notice you and found yourself hopelessly unable to do so...

We got this little acrylic "Last Supper" at the New York World's Fair. In the 1960's. Did you go to that? Anyway, it...

"The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary. He wakeneth in the morning, in th...

Another interesting excerpt from my meditations for Lent "The gospels tell us that when people witnessed Jesus' life and ministry...

I have made bread about five times in my life, and not for a long while. They all came out fine - one of them was pannetone, and that was es...

Recently read this thought-provoking passage: "Today I imagined my inner self as a place crowded with pins and needles. How could I r...

"Behold my servant, I will uphold him, My elect: my soul delighteth in him. I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgm...

"Holy Week invites us to let go of self and embrace the Lord anew. To begin again! How desperately the current age needs to hear this G...

This shawl was knitted by a co-worker - for herself - but apparently she didn't think she looked well in it. It's styled after so...

for Lent, or anytime.

Today Leila is starting something new - {pretty, happy, funny, real}.  I think I can come up with at least one of those every Thursday, s...

I don't know where my mother got this - most likely from one of those mail-order catalogs which offer oddities of every sort.  It...

A very welcome sight!

I've been wanting another lamp for my bedroom, but couldn't settle on anything. I was at the thrift store the other day, and as we w...

and it wasn't bad for a first try.

detail on a lovely nightgown, courtesy of my friend, Debra .

From my booklet of Lenten meditations  - "Something inside us despises the ordinary. Something tells us that ordinary life, with its...

A trio of windowpanes.

I'm grateful it wasn't any worse than this - a dusting.   And it's gone already.  An April Fool's joke?

My Martha Stewart gardening book says to prune your roses (at least in my area) in late March, and that's what I always try to do. I...

It's jazzzz.

My neighbor has taken it upon herself to teach me how to play cribbage. I like it! (photos by my brother)