Continue Reading Smell the Roses With the rose festival coming up it felt appropriate to close our week of flowery distraction with photographs of roses. It doesn’t hurt either…
Continue Reading The Garden in the Rain A soft rain, almost a mist, graced the garden on Tuesday. It was different from the relentless downpours of this winter/spring and…
Continue Reading Chasing the Blues Today’s antidote for the politics-related news blues offers blue flowers and an interesting musical crossover – from classics to blues (or at…
Continue Reading May Bloom Yesterday I read that a landmark-protected German cathedral – a rather small one that really should be called a church – is…
Continue Reading Memorial Day Today this country remembers its dead in war. If we consider the fight against religious bigotry, xenophobia, anti-semitism, racism and white supremacy…
Continue Reading Safe Keeping in Stone The last installment in this week on stones is an article about a storage site that holds millions of packages of seeds…
Continue Reading Stonewalled So many captivating things to report on today – still in the mode of looking at people whose hearts are not cold…
Continue Reading Leaving no Stone unturned The last two blogs reported on infuriating political shenanigans. Today, for counterbalance, I am linking to two essays that portray the best…
Continue Reading Thick as a Brick Realizing that our worst fears about Betsy deVos’ plans for the public education system have come true make me want to bang…
Continue Reading Heart of Stone As cold as stone, a heart of stone, trying to squeeze blood out of a stone – so many phrases come to mind…
