Posts Tagged With: postaweek2011
Not an Ordinary Dog
Everyone thinks that their dog is special, and I am no different. Our dog, Harley, happily coexists with my backyard flock. This is pretty amazing considering that he is a Cairn and should be fascinated with vermin, squirrels, chipmunks, mice and the like. I don’t think that hens darting around the yard is much of [...]
Lost Essence
I have always loved photography. Now with the digital age one can easily take hundreds of pictures. I miss that capturing of the true reflection of light on the film, the lines, the colors, all of that has been lost with the end of Kodachrome and the migration away from print photography. On the [...]
A Sign of Spring
There are many signs of spring; the first robin, tulips, yellow forsythia, pussy willows, melting snow, and soft roads. Today I discovered another you can add to the list, an egg from my backyard flock after a winter hiatus. For those of you not familiar with chickens, they need a certain number of hours of [...]
Looking Out The Window – Cats Point of View
We got a new cat recently from the local shelter. One of the criteria when picking our cat was that she could not be a kitten. It had to be an adult. We ended up with a one-year-old calico cat, we call Abby. Little did we know that at one a cat is still very [...]
Signs of Spring
There are still inches of snow on the ground and I am sure many more to come, but this week I received my first seed catalogue. It is a sure sign the number of days left in winter are fewer than those I have already endured. I love seed catalogues. I am from a Midwest where [...]
A Piece of History Was Lost
Sunday morning David Sherman Virtue passed away at 94 years of age. To me this man was my Uncle Sherm, though to be correct he was my Great Uncle. Uncle Sherm was the keeper of the story, our family story. He carried on a tradition started long before him. Our first ancestor to [...]
Embrace the Moment
One of my dearest friends is struggling in her fight against cancer. Up until now her fight has been going as smooth as this fight can go for someone with her amazing resiliency, belief in the positive and dogged determination in spite of the trials of surgery and chemotherapy. Today it took a wicked twist, [...]
Getting Back on Track
My employer’s annual conference always occurs in January every year. It means that the holiday season is not only the busy because of what comes traditionally with Thanksgiving and Christmas but also because of my job. This year for some reason it got beyond crazy. I lost all sense of self. I really did [...]
Some of My Pictures
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