9:30 PM Diane did the math and decided that Matt and Hil would be calling between 8 and 9 PM. She went upstairs earlier to wait under the covers and I just ran up to say something like, ìWell! ItÃs 9:30 and they havenÃt called. ArenÃt you worried?î And I would have, but sheÃs snoring […]
I was working at one of the condominiums when this hummingbird knocked himself silly flying into a glass sliding door. He sat dazed long enough for me to snap his pic from about three inches. When I finished he flew away. The nail heads gives good size perspective. View larger image Groggy View from above
The sequel to Just a Phone Call. My mother speaking: I don’t know if I should bring this up, but did you know Alice Bates? I think maybe Joan does. She’s an old friend. Last year, she and her husband George decided to retire. They’re maybe sixty, married over twenty years. Second marriage for both. […]
Saturday morning the phone rang and it was my mother : “You got your printer to work?†“Dash did it, he talked to the Epson rep for a long time. Followed his instructions and now it prints.†“Mack must be happy to get his stock portfolio. I could tell by your email that the storm […]
I wander the aisles at Idylwilde looking for the tomatoiest tasting tomato. Is it the vine ripened one from Holland, or the hothouse tomato from nearby Bolton Farms or the hard as a marble, pink one from California? I know IÃll be fondling, smelling, bouncing those things for three more weeks before the first native […]
The beartooths of 2004 were even more beautiful than last year! Lots of snow in the high country, budding and blossoming flowers in the lower meadows, waterfalls like Yosemite, birds, bears, deer. And, all week, we were never out of earshot of guzzling, roaring streams cascading through bouldered chasms, and were always in sight of […]