A Quiet Christmas

Many people told me they were having a quiet Christmas and meant that as they were staying home. For several years now I've done all my Christmas Day's at home with my husband and dogs. With dogs, there is never a quiet Christmas. The morning always starts off with the dogs tearing into their own stockings and goes on from there.

This year Boomer got fascinated with one of my gifts that gurgles, coos, and moves. He wasn't sure what to make of it, though he has finally accepted Baby Yoda (Grogu).

Happy Almost New Year!

Boomer wondering what that thing is

Boomer and Baby Yoda  meet on Christmas morning

Christmas Poem 2020

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

May you be enjoying your day with good company and good eats no matter how big or smaller your Thanksgiving is.

Squirrel taking a peanut butter-bird seed pine cone hanging for the birds. He eventually gnawed it free and took off with his Thanksgiving treat.

Happy Halloween 2020

Happy Halloween 2020

Halloween night is here,
marking the end of October,
Blue Blood Moon over head.

Pumpkins were carved,
glowing owls hidden inside,
waited to great,
the three trick-or-treaters
that dared to spread their wings
and journey out on this clear night.

Happy Halloween!

I Woke Up On Mars

I woke up on Mars this morning. Some how I slept through the entire journey. Upon opening my eyes I thought it 6:30 am as the dim light filtering into the bedroom was subdued. Once up and having opened the blinds, I saw the sky was an intense red-orange as I had never seen before. The clock revealed it was actually 9:30 a.m.

Now it is 11:50 a.m. and the red-orange sky is even darker than before. I've had to turn on synthetic lights just so I can see in the house.

Photos have not been color changed. These were taken without a flash.

My Beautiful Empress Tree

Last year my Empress Tree was huge and in full bloom. The tree looked amazing and many people stopped to take photos of it (and I can't seem to find a single photo right now). Unfortunately, the branches were brittle and breaking off in huge chunks. In addition it was in the power lines. So, we let the electric company cut it down.

The result was we used the trunk to create our Halloween Pumpkin Creature last October.

Now that summer has come around again, a full year since the tree was turned into a trunk, it has transformed itself.

I can only wonder what it will look like next Spring.

Months and Months

You think with being home more, I would be blogging more, instead it has been a lot less. It took a friend to point out to me I hadn't blogged since April and that was back in June. Now we are nearly at the end of July.

I did have ideas for blog posts, and kept meaning to write them, but each day has past by me. Between adapting to working 100% from home and new writing ideas, blogging fell between to the cracks. So today, before I allow myself to fall into complete distraction I shall blog.

The fifth Conrad novel is almost finished. It is in the final stages of editing. When done it is off the printers and an examination of the proof. Then POOF! It is released.

One of the items I wanted to show on my blog, but failed to was all the beautiful flowers that popped up in yard at the end of April and early May. Luckily, I snapped some photos of them. Here they are: