Searching for a Balance

In Manhattan the other day as we approached Central Park, a large group of birds was swooping up, around, forward and back again, several t...

Our cousins live there, and Sunday we went to see them. The train station and here I am waiting for the train. We went to Ma...

Remember me when I am gone away,    Gone far away into the silent land;    When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half...

listening to Sinatra and Jobim  - my absolute favorite collection of hot weather music.

I recently put together a quilt top - here it is in strips, before being sewn together. My intent was to use greens, blues and yellows, ...

Well, the other evening I had big piles of fabric fall down on me, off the shelf. I started to put it back, then just pulled it all  down, f...

O Spirit of the living Lord, You blow across the waiting world: You cleanse and heal earth's wounded face With balm poured from t...

"[When] the spirit from on high is poured out on us. Then will the desert become an orchard and the orchard regarded as a forest. Right...

The blooms on our lovely tree are almost gone by, but I took many photos with different cameras and using different effects - So, one more...

Now that I've put away the Cuddle Duds and tights, there's breathing room in my drawers again.  I'm determined to empty each on...

My friend Viola called me after Mass last Sunday - had I left my prayer book at church? Well, yes - I guess I had! How she figured out it wa...

And this is for Val , whose birthday was today, and who seems to find hearts wherever she goes -

for two people. But I seem to forget that every now and then.

Ye watchers and ye holy ones, Bright  seraphs,   c herubim   and  thrones , Raise the glad strain, Alleluia! Cry out,  d ominions,  p ri...

and "spring's" lease hath all too short a date, you can expect pictures of this tree often until it's "fair sometime ...

I don't know how I'm going to resist putting up pictures of this tree every day it's blooming!  Yes, I guess this is an ad fo...

One of the great pleasures of  life - being able to go outdoors after dark with wet hair.

(Prince being the cat-next-door)

Here we have Henry taking a drink of water.  He dips in a paw then licks. Apparently some cats do this if they don't...

For a patchwork quilt, twos together, three inch squares and a whole lot of 'em.

"He [God] has fashioned a law for us that will train us for eternal happiness. It is the law of love. Our life's work is to hear an...

Dolly turned ten years old today!  She started off her day by having breakfast in bed, then a nap. Before lunch a little digestive, th...

Caravaggio came to town at the museum in the city - but we couldn't take pictures. a section where we could Look at tho...