Archive For May 27, 2014
Several years ago my dad and husband built a new shed. It replaced a crumbling, rotting cubicle that might have formally been considered a shed, but it’s useful days had ended. The replacement shed is lovely, with a cedar shingled roof, sliding door, and almost twice the size of its predecessor. The inside is a bit…
My camera has served me well. I have taken thousands of photos with it over the years. Kids, flowers, cars, kids, pets, skies, kids, stop motion, holidays, art, kids… I am not sure when I started fighting with it, but I know it has been going on for a while. It would pass through where…
The weather guess-timators are promising a week of lovely warmth and mostly sunshine, which means I get to spend most of today in clothing purgatory otherwise known as the seasonal clothing switch. Clothes that were put into plastic bins months ago and stuck into dark awkward places are wrestled, dragged, and cursed out of hiding….
It appears that what I imagined to be a roller coaster quest to find the perfect dog was just a gentle meander with a couple of stumbles. The newest edition to our clan joined us today. She is cute, dark and has been dubbed Olive. Although with one light and one dark dog no article…
I was talking to a neighbour the other day and she was telling me a story about her son and giving him a pep talk. He had been crying and she said to him that he was crying like a little baby girl and needed to man up. I wasn’t about to get into…
Sunsets are beautiful. (I, once again, demonstrate my special skill of stating the obvious.) What captured me tonight was the darkening sky; the moment after the sun descends below the horizon taking its fiery colours with it, when the sky becomes dark and darker blue. The silhouettes of the trees and houses are gradually absorbed…
…or not to believe, sometimes that is the question. Borrowing from Shakespeare the body but not the essence of the question. People lie, tell truths, half truths, and leave things out. I could riddle my existence with attempting to decipher what is being said, what is not being said, is what being said the truth….