Reflection Monday April 2024

I've thought for weeks this one has to be something profound, deep thinking, pulled from the depths of  Earth's health, all the spheres. Whatever it is that I'm hoping to find, is not revealing itself. I want to vent about something. I want to post something that will make a difference. I think, ponder, mull, think, contemplate, search again and again over the weeks.

Ah...

What does the World need?

You.

Day 89 of Week 13 March 2024

 

Prayer and meditation 

Poetry Thursday

There is no fantasy

more true

than how we,

in our element,

in this era,

on these days,

are living with

fiction ingredients 

folded into reality.

M.Flannery

2024

Snow On the Ground Sunday

There is more than half a foot of snow in the yard today from yesterday's snow storm. The sun is very bright this morning. Sun + Snow = Wear Sunglasses

Going outdoors, I feel like I should be on a mountain top wthe skis while sipping a hot chocolate. Looking up, the sun is reflecting off my sunglasses. I don't ski, but a bird seems to have tried out the small slope near my deck.

The snowfall was steady, not the kind you sit to watch when daydreaming. It was out there. I was in here. We were good. Sadly, I wanted a warm milk with a glug or two of Kahlua. Woe was me, I didn't stop to buy milk on Friday morning. What liquid dairy was left, went into my coffee. Priorities.

Day 82 of Week 12 in March 2024

March 2024 Crocus in Snow

The snow storm forecast to begin tonight has gone from a watch to a Winter Storm Warning here in Vermont.

A small patio table with a trash bag pulled over it will protect the crocus. The bulbs blooming in the open area will be all right as they aren't tall enough to break under the pressure of snow.

The colder temperatures for me are not a bother. I'm not ready to go out in sandals and no jacket. At a weight plateau, (scale doesn't change no matter what), there is time to lose a few pounds before the transition from spring jacket to sweater weather begins.

Flower sprouts. This season, once again, despite plenty of sunlight, the sprouts are trying to get leggy. I wave my hand over them to help the stems grow strong. The California Poppy are having issues, wanting to keel over between watering. The bachelor's buttons are doing well as are the nasturtium. Today I will sow the next set of seeds for cosmos, love-in-a-mist (nigella), and basil. The look this year I'm going for is a cotton sundress cottage vibe.

Feedspot. If  you want to promote your blog, then Feedspot.com is a good resource. I receive their emails with the recent news about the blogs I like as well as a snippet of this blog. I don't have stats to tell you if this blog's traffic has improved through the website. I do know it is an easy and informative website to use.

The sun is shinning as I type. Time for me to do errands, putter and be creative.

Have a Wonderful Weekend

Drive Safely

Bake biscuits 

Shop for local honey

Read about bar shampoo

Browse summer shorts online

Sketch your ideal garden

Sing to your stove

Have Coffee Ice cream 

with a splash of Kahlua

Cloud Formations

(Cc flo) Cirrocumulus floccus with (Ci) Cirrus above
High level 6000 m (above 20,000 feet)

Wider view of first photograph
  

Presently, I am working on a cloud formation photograph file. It is not an easy project. The classification I've given for the clouds in the photographs is my best guess from looking at several pictures online as well as knowing they are high clouds.

There is a winter storm watch in this Vermont, New England area for Friday night into Saturday night with as much as 7 inches of possible snow, and difficult travel expected. Winter is going out with a bang or Spring arriving with a take that to winter? 

Doesn't matter. It is going to snow.

 

Hello Spring

Crocus in March

In comparison to the world 15 days ago when I posted this blog's pause, the news media appears to be happy to be held hostage by outrageous statements from you know who. Violence continues as any good news crouches under the weight of politics and war.

My blog pause isn't because of blogging burn out. The world around me has a glacier weight that is building with each headline I read about you know who. It is impossible to get away from that sheer stupidity that he gets that much attention instead of being behind bars.

I am not a weak person. Severe emotional pain I have endured countless times. I live with depression, PTSD, and anxiety. The depth of the anguish the GOP is creating via supporting you know who, the Mariana Trench pales in comparison.

A very sad part of my misery is the belief I am not the only American who is being negatively impacted by what is going on in American politics.

Pray for Common Sense 

Pray for a good presidential candidate to emerge

Pray for America

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Regular posting is still on pause

Day 76 of Week 11 March 2024

Bachelor Button Sprouts*

Internet wise, if you pause your blog, then your rating on searches and such decreases. Posting a photograph with comments turned off is a way of not losing your blog's Internet ranking. I'm not sure how or what search engine rules are concerning ranking though. 

Posting will might resume in April 2024.

*Using organic potting soil in jiffy planters, seeds sprouted in 4 days.

Giving Pause

With the Best Foot Forward

Walking into the future carries all our baggage, some light, some heavy, some a burden, some a joy. All of you have been a joy to get to know through blogging, comments and emails. Y'all are a wonderful group of folks. My appreciation of y'all goes deep. 

Unlike many blogs I read that are left to dangle, the author gone without explanation, this blog is not taking that path. 

Figuring out how to balance my life's load, I will be pausing this blog indefinitely. I will continue to read your posts, and comment now and then.

Thank you

Reflection Monday March 2024

Wood Sorrel

First Reflection Monday

that I don't have a subject.

Thinking on that, maybe not having a subject

is the subject. Not all of life flows with ideas to consider or thoughts to share. Bringing enthusiasm or inspiration to another person's life is sort of a why issue. What is going on that weighs on one's heart, soul, brain, emotional environment, thoughts, stuff that stays with us during our waking hours isn't always something we can just pull onto a screen through a keyboard and hope the point comes through.

I'm not depressed.

I'm on no subject.

Have a good week

Posting is on pause

Comments are off back on

A Morning's Internet Browsing

Homemade Coffee Frappe

Thinking of summer this morning, I browse American artists listed on Wikiart.org. I was looking for a nice bright sunny beach  painting for a mid winter pick me up. I see a line up of walrus mustached old men, and very few women artists. 

Reading the artist's names, one that sticks out, Cadurcis Plantagenet Ream, 1838~1917, American still life painter of mainly fruit. All right, painting still life fruit is art. But, what was going through his mind to paint a bunch of raspberries on a cabbage leaf?

Raspberries on a Cabbage Leaf
C.P.Ream

On the theme of interesting names, I find an American female multiracial sculptor, Edmonia Lewis, 1844~1907. Her first name has a beautiful musical vibe.

The marble sculpture in the photo posted below is part of a series she did from H.W.Longfellow's poem, "The Song of Hiawatha," 1855. The young woman at the feet of the arrow maker is Minnehaha. There is also a Lewis' marble bust of Minnehaha.

The Old Arrow Maker
Marble 1872

Finding new to me American artists is a better use 

of my time than playing computer games online.

I also look at an American impressionist, Lilla Cabot Perry. Her name, to me, screams Boston. And Boston is where she was born in 1848. She died in 1933 at Hancock, New Hampshire 91 years ago yesterday. 

Does she have a summer beach painting? No, but the painting in the photo below, has soothing summer sunlight that is just as good. The scene reminds me of a place near Walden Pond, Lincoln, Massachusetts where we had picnics when I was a kid.

The Violoncellist
1907 by Lilla Cabot Perry

What do you like to browse online instead 

of playing computer games?