a spirit of simplicity

a pear is a sensual fruit. ripe and round and sort of plump almost voluptuous in shape soft, but not too soft beautiful in the light almost dancing on the kitchen windowsill fits nicely in the palm of your hand delicious and slightly fragrant I once had a pear tree growing outside my bedroom window I would lie awake in the moonlight and listen to fat pears  dropping onto the grass below us friday finds

we live on a rather tiny island between two beaches Short beach on one side is for people and black rock -aka, dog beach is open to dogs year round Friday my town

o is for outside where we often wander when the day is waning abc wednesday outdoor wednesday

Two paths diverged in a yellow wood And knowing I could not travel both  And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth Robert Frost the wood is littered with yellow leaves from the birches and beach trees bittersweet bursting open yellow leaves with red berries and dappled sunshine on the path mellow yellow monday texture tuesday

a perfect day I was not familiar with this song so I played it on youtube.  it seems, somehow, depressing to me...almost sarcastic.  It is rather sad that he died so young (71...seems younger and younger to me) For me, a perfect day is spending time with the ones I love or a romp on the beach while supper is cooking. song-ography

fun picture rock over the summer we went to see the rock band  Yes so much fun!! saturday photo hunt photo hunting on saturday

this was taken last winter... it can get rather lonely and foreboding on an island  in Janurary a rather tiny island has mood swings let's just say she can get mighty pissed off  in the dead of winter    give you the cold shoulder  or toss a few boulders up onto the causeway during a high tide and leave all the folks stranded here till she feels like she's proved her point then go all quiet and still again like nothing ever happened friday my town shoot out

October at the seashore friday finds

the path through  the hundred acre wood leads to the playground sometimes there are groundhogs  in the pathway when they see us they waddle  into the tall brush reeds where the birds and mices scuttle about gathering tiny seeds and acorns  for an October feast nature notes outdoor wednesday little things thursday

our beautiful world autumn our life is frittered away by detail simplify, simplify Thoreau friend  i am always comforted with a cuppen tae new moon above  scavenger hunt sunday

the fun Hung out with most of kids yesterday   The good Team shirt   The random it was chilly and wet today we had a few visits from some mourning doves who puffed up to keep warm the good, the random, the fun

the autumn here on this rather tiny island has been warm thus far seed pods intermingle with fresh blooms in the garden first frost should hit in a week or so all blossoms will bend those seeds that have hidden away in there little pod homes will fall to the earth  and lie in waiting the whole winter through my town friday friday finds

I live on a rather tiny island which is just 1 square mile of land these pictures are from last winter

lingering monarchs  the community gardens on this rather tiny island has a section area devoted to butterflies and so the monarchs linger there  as they pass by on their way to warmer climates than ours little things thursday

we went to Maine to visit the cousins this is an app called flipagram in case you didn't notice it's shameless advertising in the video  which is one of the things I don't care for the other being that it sometimes clips the photos other than that though it's a great app and lots of fun! app happy wednesday

the good for the past 45 minutes I have been watching the sun rise over the Atlantic Ocean  from my living room window. It has been some time since I've seen it. I've been  busy or it's been raining and gray. I had forgotten how beautiful it was. I am not posting a picture....wake up early one day soon and  watch the sun come up from where you are. it is absolutely the most amazing thing. every single morning you can count on that sun breaking forth over the horizon into a new day the random Joe hit a deer at 4:30 this morning driving through the city on his way to work. It's antlers crashed into the driver's side mirror but didn't go through the window. Quite a scare for the both of them but no one was hurt.  the fun The last of the quarry jumping  the good the random the fun

they went to the sunflower field a mother and two grown daughters they walked through the middle in an arch of yellow  and they made pictures mellow yellow monday i love macro macro monday 2 nature notes blo-ma

Autumn leaves game I couldn't get them all -it's been a busy week scavenger hunt sunday

this is the man with whom I have been entwined in one way or another since we were 11 years old and he's pretty hot as well entwined hot the saturday photo hunt saturday photo hunting

the last of september was an Indian summer weekend so we went for a last trip to the quarries but the brambleberry vines climbing the pine trees were yellow and orange and the water was cooler than it had been when we got home we closed all the windows in the fading sunlight friday finds