A Photo a Week: Lining Up to Celebrate

On January 26, we happily celebrated the marriage of our daughter, Tamara, to her soulmate, Liam. It was a very eclectic group of friends that came to celebrate with our families. For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week, here is my interpretation of her theme, Getting Your Ducks in a Row. These are the members […]

Caturday?* Israeli Cats

*I am late again with my Caturday photos! At least this week I have an excuse: Dale was in the hospital since Monday. He had quadruple bypass surgery! We were both surprised, alarmed at first, but it was inevitable really. But I’ll leave that story for another time. Meanwhile, here are a few of the […]

FOTD: Random Act of Flowers

My husband was in the hospital this past week – he had to have quadruple bypass surgery! One day while I was visiting him, a man stopped by his room with a bouquet of flowers. He explained that the company he works for distributes flowers for hospital patients. The company is called Random Acts of […]

Last Spiky Square!

For this last day of Becky’s Spiky Squares month, I am posting another photo taken in the desert greenhouse at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. I found this month’s challenge to be fun and interesting. I didn’t have a chance to participate as much as I would have liked because, well, LIFE intervened! My spiky desert […]

FOTD: Bouquet

At a Google Photos workshop at the library a few nights ago, I learned how to make an image “pop” – an enhancement feature that makes the colors just a little more vivid. (I can use my photo software too, but this feature on Google Photos is better – more subtle.) This is a bouquet […]

Spiky Squares Month: “Mr. Spiky”

When you look at this photo of blazing stars in my garden, you won’t think it looks very “spiky” – but there is a story behind it! When I started my garden a decade ago, I planted some seedlings that I bought at a plant exchange at my church. I had no idea what this […]

FOTD: Snowdrops

My snowdrops are full up! I’ve noticed more of them around the neighborhood this year also. Snowdrops are special because they appear on average around the first day of spring, so they are one of nature’s first flowers of the year. These are in my garden: I saw a plethora of snowdrops scattered along someone’s […]

Journey to Egypt, Part 13: Cruising the Nile & Visit to el Hegz Island

December 28, 2018 I was looking forward to the next portion of our trip – a 5-day cruise on the Nile, aboard a 16-passenger dahabeya – in other words, a private ship for our OAT group of 14 people including our guide plus 14 crew members! This dahabeya, called Aida, is one of only two such […]

FOTD: Striped Orchids

I love these orchids that I captured at the Chicago Botanic Gardens orchid show! Go to Cee’s FOTD 3/25/19 for more beautiful flowers!

Caturday on Sunday! Joia (1976-1992)

I did not have a chance to post my Saturday cat photo yesterday. Then today I was looking through a box of very old photos – from the early 1980s! I found several of my (half) Manx cat named Jóia, who died in 1992. Here she is in 1984. This must have been in the […]