• Outside My Window

    Outside My Window ~ 9.20.09

    Outside My Window…is a beautiful almost fall morning.  We are at 65F with 73% humidity, sunny with blue skies.  The forecast is for a high of 78F with patchy clouds.  Beautiful.  The dogwood tree leaves are beginning to turn…..they are generally the first to turn around here.  I have noticed quite a few berries on mine this year.  It appears that when I get a lot of berries in the fall, I get more blooms the following spring.  I am thinking…about how quickly summer seemed to fly by.  It doesn’t seem like that long ago I was stressing over Alanna’s prom dress and graduation.  Now school has started again and…

  • 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…