Who Are you?
After posting Love is the Key on January 19th of this year, it still stands. I just love my dogs. Maybe they have replaced caring for my granddaughters full time. LOL I do call Teddy Roosevelt (the...
View ArticleFinally – A New Camera!
I just love to take pictures. My Fuji from 2004 bit the dust completely last year sometime. I was so sad, but it was outdated. It was time. I continued to take photos with my iPhone6! LOL. It was...
View ArticleFreedom
I have posted this quote before. I decided to “bleed” a little today. It’s been a while. I have felt a bit dry, much like the summer heat in The Middle. My dryness comes more from fear rather than...
View ArticleI Need Color
I am still getting to know my camera and the zooming in part. Here, in The Middle of the USA, the summer can get rather hot and things begin to dry up. We had a great spring and beginning of summer....
View ArticleSurprises
It can get pretty hot here in The Middle. This summer is mildly hot compared to other summers in The Middle. This summer is better for us since we had central air installed. I have to go outside to...
View ArticlePeople You Can Meet in The Burg
I am mostly a homebody. I enjoy staying home and doing projects – reading, writing, breathing fresh air in the yard with my doggies, bird watching, photography, and so on…… But I also know that to...
View ArticleAlways A Mom
I am a grandma five times now plus one great grandson. Not too bad. I love it. But I will always be a mom. In the back corner of my mind I thought that once the kids grew into adulthood and had their...
View ArticleFriendship
Friendship is good. We all need to have friends and especially the ones that “get us”. Those kindred spirits. The ones where a spoken word sometimes isn’t necessary, they just know. There are so many...
View ArticleIn My Own Backyard
I’m sad to see that Summer is dusting off her luggage and starting to pack it up and head out of town. I love you Summer! You will be missed by me. Now that the University of Central Missouri is in...
View ArticleUnequaled
A perfect word for someone! Thank you Anne for being You. SOUL SUSTENANCE When I write, I struggle with fearing that what I write about has been written about before. Therefore meaning it won’t matter....
View ArticleHey WordPress, We are Humans
When death knocks on doors and we lose someone close or even not so close it is difficult and sad. When we lose a fellow blogger and their words no longer appear on our reader – we can feel lost....
View ArticleFrom Green to Brown
Fall is in full swing here in The Middle. The colors this year are not as brilliant as the last few years. Sad. But it still smells great out there and leaves are falling and air is fresh and cool....
View ArticleSit
The Header for this page says this: “Sometimes life cries out for a nice break from the daily routine …… a pie break, so to speak. A time to sit, to listen, to reflect. To taste the sweetness of life.”...
View ArticleStoring Up For Winter
I wrote this four years ago………different yard to view now, different town, but still feel the same. Happy December 2017 Everyone! I’m sitting at my kitchen table enjoying a cup of coffee with my...
View ArticleJs in My Life
The last fews days have taken me into remembering. Remembering times of community with great people. Times where you feel like your family grew to Walton-size or Osmond-size. Times when you felt like...
View ArticleAnother Glimpse of December
Here we are, almost into the middle of December and just now the weather has gotten cold. That’s ok. It makes winter even shorter, at least in my head. Here are some images before the weather turned at...
View ArticleA Wee Peek….
Hello Dear Readers. I am posting on my mobile in Edinburgh Scotland! What a trip this has been so far. I have so much to process before I delve into the journey. So to whet your appetite I will show...
View ArticleTemporary
Here we are in a New Year, 2018, and things did not start out as they usually do in my life. That can be good. But what usually happens is, my husband and I look into our future and talk and pray about...
View ArticleThe Journey Begins Part I My Scottish Journey
I have always had a love for Scotland. I think it began deep inside from my ancestors, I’m convinced of that, or I choose to believe that. My mother’s grandfather came from Paisley, Scotland when he...
View ArticleMy Scottish Journey Part II: Getting There
The last big trip we took was in February of 2005. The same son who is studying now in Scotland was studying in Shanghai, China for a couple of semesters. So why not go to China? Good grief, prior to...
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