Zoom! Zoom! Ka-Boom! Aggression rages outside my kitchen window – thanks to one particular alpha male. With all his speed and might, this guy slams his body into another male. Zoom! He’s back to his guard post. This mighty hummingbird perches protectively on a chain that supports a sweet nectar feeder. A few seconds later, [...]
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (5/18/12)
Posted in About me, Creativity, Entertainment, Gardening, Helping Others, inspiration, Organization, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged blog, Caroline Casey, DIY project, HD video, Helping Others, hummingbird facts, hummingbirds, inspiration, inspiring others, life, moving beyond limitations, nature, paint can coat hooks, Project Yosemite, quote, repurposing paint cans, TED talks, Thomas Merton quote, time lapse video, Yosemite, Yosemite HD on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Friday’s Fresh Five! (5/11/12)
Posted in About me, Art and Crafts, Health, Husbands, In The Kitchen, inspiration, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged art made from fishing nets, blog, codes on plastic bottles, dogs, exerise for sedentary people, fishing nets, food, gelato, gelato versus ice cream, gretchen reynolds, Health, health tips for sedentary people, Helping Others, ice cream, ice cream compared to gelato, inspiration, janet echelman, life, recycling plastic, swimming dogs, Zen quote on May 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Running with unbridled joy, Buster, my “grand puppy,” leaps into the air and performs his signature belly-flop into the water. Quickly, he locates his float-toy, snatches it with his mouth, dog paddles back, drops the float on the ground, sprays water over everyone as he shakes it off, and then barks a resounding “Let’s do [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (4/27/12)
Posted in About me, Art and Crafts, Creativity, Gardening, Health, Helping Others, In The Kitchen, inspiration, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged art installations, blog, change your morning routine, Do Ho Suh, Health, healthiest spices, healthy spices, Helping Others, herbs and spices, inspiration, life, morning power questions, morning rituals, questions to ask yourself, quote, Repurposing, reusing old hoses, roses, spices, start your day right, thought-provoking art, uses for old hoses, wabi sabi, ways to reuse hoses on April 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Bending to the wind and rain, the rosebuds looked as if they were praying. The first bloom of the season is usually the best, but this year the roses in my garden tempted fate by making their first appearance during a storm. Days later, with the sun on my back, I walked through my garden [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (4/20/12)
Posted in About me, Art and Crafts, Community, Creativity, Gardening, In The Kitchen, inspiration, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged art, Benjamin Hoff quote, blog, compost, composting, composting paper products, composting toilet paper tubes, creatives photographs of food, Creativity, earth day, farmer's markets, food art, green hotels, Helping Others, inspiration, life, nature, Recycling, the Tao of Pooh, tips on how to shop at farmer's markets, toilet paper tubes, urban hotel, ways to be green, ways to help the environment, Winne the Pooh on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This tree. This beautiful weeping cedar, a graceful perch for so many birds, is dying. It’s just a tree, I tell myself. But nonetheless, for over sixteen years, without any special wants or needs, this tree’s long, downward-growing branches covered with silvery, grey-green bursts of needles created an elegant archway into my garden. Now, it [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (4/13/12)
Posted in Art and Crafts, Community, Entertainment, Helping Others, inspiration, Photography, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged art, arts and crafts, blog, brain games, brain quiz, DIY project, earth day, Helping Others, inspiration, life, mental fitness, mental floss, moon, moon moral, moon quiz, moon story, moonlight in a jar, nature conservancy, painting mason jars, paintings, pedro campos, realistic paintings, Thomas Merton quote, ways to help earth on April 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Cradled in the arms of trees, the moon rested. Stars and planets hovered subserviently nearby, knowing that the bright light emanating from the full moon dimmed their own magnificence. But, if the truth be told, the moon didn’t want to stand out – he longed to be in the night sky clustered together with the [...]
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! (2/3/12)
Posted in Aging, Entertainment, Health, Helping Others, Jewelry, Recipes, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged Audrey Hepburn quote, blog, brain games, computer game, crocheting with newspaper, healthy snacks, healthy Super Bowl snack, life, life's regrets, quesadillas, Recipes, recycling newspaper, regrets, Super Bowl snacks, the game you can't stop, what are you made of on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Stones, tumbled by the sea, collect on the shore. The waters have worn some smooth and round, while others remain irregular and pockmarked. That they existed in the same turbulent waters, but weathered the forces differently, can only be attributed to their individual compositions and, perhaps, the length of exposure. If you were one of [...]
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