It was raining cats and dogs when I spotted a pretty bird perched on a tree in my yard. While other birds ate ravenously in the pelting rain, this Spotted Towhee was resting and taking in the sights. Here’s a lesson for us all – even in undesirable conditions, it’s always good to sit, regroup, [...]
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (3/23/12)
Posted in About me, Aging, Art and Crafts, Creativity, Entertainment, Health, Helping Others, inspiration, Recipes, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged 3-D, asparagus, asparagus recipe, birds, blog, healthy recipe, Helping Others, inspiration, interesting facts for a given year, Jim Rohn quote, life, paint and resin, painting goldfish, recipe for roasted asparagus, Recipes, Riusuke Fukahori, spotted towhee, time around the world, time zones, vegetable recipe, vegetables, what happened in, what happened in my birth year, what happened when, world times on March 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Friday’s Fresh Five! (3/16/12)
Posted in About me, Helping Others, Husbands, In The Kitchen, inspiration, Photography, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged beauty in everything, blog, free print outs, free printables, fruit, george bernard shaw quote, Helping Others, inspiration, life, new uses for household items, Photography, photos, satsuma mandarin, simple household cleaners, sumo mandarins on March 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The rain forces me to do things that I ordinarily don’t want to do. The idea of cleaning out cabinets and closets rarely appeals to me, but since there’s been nothing but rain this past week, I’ve been in a nesting/cleaning mode. My husband hates it when I go from a laissez-faire wife to a [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (2/24/12)
Posted in About me, Art and Crafts, Creativity, Gift Ideas, Helping Others, In The Kitchen, inspiration, Recipes, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged bird feeders, birds, blog, creative design, Helping Others, how to preserve lemons, inspiration, John Pierpont quote, lemons, life, Limbs for Life, Paris vs. New York, pay phones, phone booths, preserving lemons, protheses, Repurposing, repurposing phone booths, Vahram Muratyan on February 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Chirping up a storm, the birds in my backyard are letting me know that their feeders are empty. I look out the window to the feeding station and see that the sunflower seeds have disappeared and all but one-inch of Nyjer seed remains in another feeder. It’s a quite a job to stay on top [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (2/17/12)
Posted in Aging, Art and Crafts, Health, Helping Others, Holidays, inspiration, Photography, Uncategorized, tagged advice for women over fifty, blog, calories, Fab 50, food portions, Helping Others, inspiration, life, life is art, liquid paint sculptures, Martin Klimas, Miguel Angel Ruiz quote, National Heart Lung and blood Institute, ordinary and extraordinary things, over fifty, painting with sound, photo of the year, portion distortion, super sized food, super-sized, Women over 50, women over fifty, World Press Photo on February 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes the ordinary can be extraordinary. Lowly landscape flowers shine in otherwise flowerless gardens; wet paint vibrates with energy creating liquid sculptures; one person helps another and both lives improve. There are many things that exist and happen in our everyday lives that we deem ordinary, but when reflected upon, they are truly quite extraordinary! [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (2/10/12)
Posted in Community, Creativity, Health, Helping Others, In The Kitchen, inspiration, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged accepting others, Arches National Park, Art House Co-Op, blog, Bryce Canyon, creative community projects, Helping Others, human similarities, images of the Milky Way, inspiration, Joseph Campbell quote, joy, Letters to Home, life, Milky Way, moods are contagious, Photography, romanesco, romanesco broccoli, Royce Blair, spread the mood, The Meal, the Sketchbook Project, Utah, Utah National Parks on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The world’s other 6,993,541,793 human inhabitants are more like you than you think. People’s emotions, actions and reactions are not so different from one part of the world to another. Cultural and religious customs do exist, but smiling, kissing, and hugging are among the many emotional gestures people around the world share. So the next [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (1/20/12)
Posted in About me, Community, Gardening, Helping Others, inspiration, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged blog, Charles Warnke, date a girl who reads, Helping Others, how to help the homeless, inspiration, John Bunyan quote, life, Pinterest, reduce food waste, Repurposing, Rosemarie Urquico, ways to help the homeless, ways to reuse things, you should date an illiterate girl on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It was so cold outside that the birds looked all puffed up in their little down jackets. For me, dressing up like Nanook of the North and going out in the freezing cold at midnight is not something I like to do, but the weather forecaster on T.V. said, “There’s going to be a hard [...]