On a corner near where I live there is a Wild Garden that I love. “Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.” ― Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems It’s not totally wild, as I see the owner out tending it often when I drive by. But Read more…
This morning I took my walk at 8 AM and it was already hot and steamy. Wow! The next few days are going to be hot and humid ones here in Minneapolis. How are you staying cool? I am feeling very grateful for air conditioning this week and I’m not Read more…
It’s no secret to my friends that I am a cat lover. When I was a child growing up on our farm I thought my job in life was taming the many kittens that were born each spring. I spent hours searching out where the mother cats had hidden them Read more…
Yesterday felt like A Perfect Day It was February when we last got together for a family gathering — Jon and I, our oldest daugher Katee and her husband Cory and their two kids, and our youngest daughter Kristi — and it felt like forever. So after assessing the relative Read more…
After some hot days the rain came and then cooler dryer air arrived. I bask in the perfect temperatures and open-window weather. Delightful flowers bloom in early summer gardens. Berries form on blueberry bushes. Strawberries begin to ripen. A doe wanders through the backyard. Swallows swoop and soar. Everywhere I Read more…