This week’s photo challenge is foreign, which can mean a country other than your own or it can mean something unusual or different. I went with different and am sharing some spider pictures taken at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens in mid-September (for a different view of this spider, click here). I believe these are both the…
Today’s Thoughtful Thursday question asks what I’m looking forward to doing this year. It was a great question to come after my post yesterday about goal ideas for 2012. But wow, what to choose? I have so many things I want to do in 2012. Eventually I realized that the two things I’m looking forward…
I love using straws! It keeps my teeth from hurting from cold liquids. The iced tea comes up, goes to the back of my mouth, where I taste and savor it before swallowing. I don’t like drinking my iced tea without a straw or a travel mug (sippy cups for adults). The likelihood of sloshing…
Over the years, I’ve evolved some formats to use around January 1 to celebrate my life and accomplishments, as well as set expectations for the New Year. Here is the format I’m currently using: List 25 Accomplishments from 2011 Choose my top five accomplishments from 2011 List three ways I have grown over the last year What…
winter robins, south ’til spring first one, then two, then three singing, chirping, noisy high up in the tree white bellies, red chests a cloak of gray on top now three, then two, then one, now none winter’s tree bare except for orange tinted morning sun and oak’s brown leaves Happy New Year! Today’s post is…
