Kauai, Hawaii 2012 Found on a tree in Sweetwater Creek Park! Hugs are so needed! For the Photo of the Week Challenge from Nancy Merrill Photography.
A Photo of the Week Challenge: Something Pretty
A Photo a Week Challenge: Colorful
These are pictures taken in Sevilla, Spain that catalogue the different municipalities in Spain. They are so colorful, with each having a theme that best represent the area listed. People from the various places would take pictures in front of their areas. Douglas, my husband and travel partner extraordinaire, liked the colors of Valencia, and... Continue Reading →
A Photo A Week Challenge: Unexpected Windows
I saw this window with an unexpected statue of what I think is a saint that watches over the ships and boats in Quarteria, Portugal. It was at the end of a long pier at the harbor. We were there to watch fishing boats come and go. I guess when you spend a lot of... Continue Reading →
Free Your Mind: Easier Said than Done
As Douglas and I walked along the green-way, I saw the words seen in the photo above. It was not your normal graffiti. It made me stop and wonder what would freeing my mind actually entail? Indeed, is my mind closed in some areas, but open in other areas? As we walked along the pavement,... Continue Reading →
Jazz and Christmas Music: It Was Swinging!
Last night I went to Symphony Hall in Nashville for the first time since moving nearby. I love the symphony, but it is a chore to drive in Nashville, for it is growing like weeds, and the traffic is horrendous. Although we could lightly afford the $100 price tag for the seat I chose near... Continue Reading →
Let Our Lives Inspire Others
I believed that I had no useful purpose in the world. I worked for the local telephone company, and all day long, I answered people's complaints with their computers or printers. While I knew that the work was important, I felt like a cog in a machine, not someone offering a uniqueness perspective to people... Continue Reading →
Losing the Art of Listening
Last weekend was special because I saw some of my granddaughters whom I had not seen in a while, due to their family and work commitments whenever Douglas and I are in Atlanta. While sitting down to talk, I found myself on my birthday trying to be heard among a group of twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings... Continue Reading →
Douglas is in the Blue Zone, and I’m in the Trash Zone
My husband has become nearly obsessed with "Blue Zone" living, after seeing so much written about it while in Spain. He has taken to eating healthy like a duck takes to water. I must give him credit for his ability to stick with a new method of eating, and he has lost about 15 pounds.... Continue Reading →
Craving One More Glimpse of the Ocean
I think that of all that I crave to see again from our trips to Portugal and Spain, it is the ocean and the sea that I miss most. They changed colors according to the sky above in a dance as old as the earth itself. It was as if I see God in the... Continue Reading →
The Joy of a Handmade Gift
With all the Black Friday sales and Cyber Monday hype, last Saturday on my 67th birthday, I discovered all over again the joy of a handmade gift. Douglas' daughter had her three children make "Nana Gina" birthday cards while I was at my daughter's house. When I returned to their home to spend the last... Continue Reading →
Help from Heaven 