Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! From Lake Tahoe, I wish you and yours a day of love, near or far, together or apart, present or in memory. It’s been months since my last post, which was the culmination of blogging every day for one year through the ups and downs of the pandemic. I stepped away after that last post on April 6th

Silver Linings

December 31st, 2020 Happy New Year’s Eve! Our greatest achievement this year may be surviving to the end of it. I keep coming back to the idea that although this has been a year of tragedy and despair, silver linings are everywhere. My silver linings for 2020:• Time: to blog nearly every day, something I hadn’t planned on doing and

A Sunday Bouquet

September 6th, 2020 After yesterday’s virtual jaunt around London, I have flowers for you today. It’s a holiday weekend here in the U.S., with many people taking the day off tomorrow for Labor Day. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the holiday “is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers.” Labor Day seems especially important this

Divine Gifts

Last spring, we spent three weeks exploring Spain, Portugal and Morocco. Throughout those three weeks we kept seeing hints of glorious wildflowers as we traveled through the countries in cars, taxis, trains and buses. We would point to the flowers from the windows as the blooms whizzed past us in a blur of color. Driving north from Marbella to Seville