• Things That Made Me Smile This Week

    Things that made me smile this week

    Looking through my old photographs…. and discovering some I had forgotten about…. Discovering I will have two more tomatoes ready to eat very soon… ….and harvesting some herbs. Enjoying my first tomato of the season with some basil from my garden… two farm fresh eggs from my friend scrambled with feta cheese and basil…heavenly. The tomato was wonderful! Welcoming another summer solstice… What made you smile this week?  🙂

  • Outside My Window

    Outside My Window ~ 8.30.09

    Outside My Window…is a very warm and muggy Sunday morning, closing in on afternoon.  A bit of a late start this morning.  At 11:30 it is 82F with 71% humidity.  Not such a bad morning, if you don’t move while you are outside.  The Weather Channel is forecasting thunderstorms for today, tonight and rain tomorrow.  I have found myself wishing for cooler temps more often lately.  I look forward to the cooler mornings and evenings of fall.  I do not look forward to the nor’easters that follow.  What is this odd language she speaks you ask…….this nor’easter.   Well, a nor’easter is kind of like summer’s tropical systems, except not so…

  • Outside My Window

    Outside My Window ~ 5.3.09

      Outside My Window…is a rather gloomy looking morning.  Temps are at 63 degrees, cloudy with some fog lingering outside.  Our forecast today does not improve as the day goes on ~ chance of thunderstorms.  I am thinking…about an old friend this morning, Shaun Sargent.  I received news last night that he has passed after suffering a heart attack and lapsing into a coma about a week ago. While I say he was an “old” friend, he was actually a few years younger than I am.  I met him in 1985 when I moved from Denver to Dallas.  Shaun was a longtime friend of my ex-husbands and opened his home…