My irises are doing well this year, after two very poor years. A couple of my favorites are still missing but this year I’m really liking these pure white ones. It’s one of the few that I remember the name of: Immortality. Sometimes irises do not stay true from year to year. Generally that’s not [...]

… but sometimes you just can’t get out of a thing. This is our new friend Kiki. She is a border collie. She is very unhappy in this picture because I’m staying just out of her reach so I can get the picture. Most of the pictures of her came out blurry because of her [...]

Two very close views of one of my favorite spring wildflowers. And the normal view. These are each about half an inch across.

I have mentioned before that, for me, St. Patrick’s Day heralds the beginning of spring but yesterday it felt more like the return of winter. The cats hate cold fronts. Cats like to be where it’s warm. They also like to be outdoors. When the outdoors is suddenly not warm, after it’s been warm for [...]

As cat owners know, cats shed the outer layers of their claws when they sharpen them on your furniture. This is one of those shed pieces.

I thought about doing a guessing game but you could just roll over the photos to see what this is.

It’s Back to Normal Day. That’s not an official Day of course and that’s exactly the point – it’s nothing. It’s the first ordinary, routine day of the year and I am so ready for it. I do love the holidays. I enjoy the shopping and seeing people and the food, but a couple of [...]

This is a piece of Corn Chex cereal at 60X magnification. And this is my new toy. It’s rather cheaply made and megapixel-poor but as you can see it’s working pretty good so far. Expect to see more closeups of junk around my house.

This is my brother’s cat. He has had him for a few months but he always hides under the bed when I’m there. (the cat, not my brother) I saw the gorgeous little guy (the cat, not my brother) for the first time yesterday. I took this picture with my phone.

This idea was fairly successful last week. Eight comments and fewer than half of them were mine! So I’ve decided to try to make it a weekly feature. Of course that means I will have the challenge of taking or finding an interesting enough picture every week. I took this one early this morning and [...]

This is what folks call a weed. Each of these little daisy-like flowers is no more than half an inch in diameter. You probably wouldn’t even notice it, but if you look closely it’s a delicate and beautiful flower. It’s been sort of lonely around here lately. So talk to me. It doesn’t even have [...]

This is rather odd. This is a banana pepper plant. (It’s growing in one of those upside down planters.) This one undersized pepper turned red. Since banana peppers are usually picked when green I’ve never seen one turn red. According to the Wikipedia article this is normal but this one is only about an inch [...]

This is not my lunch today or yesterday. I took this picture several weeks ago but never got around to posting it. Then I found out about NIAFPHFPPW (“National Irritate a Food Pic Hater Food Pic Posting Week”) (originating here) Really? There are people who hate pictures of food? Strange. I’m not sure this really [...]

It’s September 11th and it’s a beautiful Tuesday morning. Just like that other September 11th. The one we will never forget. Honestly, to me, it seems so long ago now – just another date in history. As it should, I suppose. We were in New York for a while in 1982 and ’83. That’s when [...]

This is my grandmother. I don’t know what year (or even what decade) it was taken. Like many of the old photos I have, it was taken from too far away and the detail is poor. My grandmother wore slacks only once that I know of. She just tried them on to show everyone and [...]

“What are you looking at, Human? This is my truck.”

Tuesday I finally saw someone in the local Walmart worthy of PeopleOfWalmart.com. This woman was wearing a long black evening gown (at ten o’clock in the morning) that had spaghetti straps that meet in the center back of the dress with standard bra and slip straps showing. So of course I took a picture but [...]

Well, summer is here. Officially. I’ve been feeling like it’s summer for weeks now but it looks like next week we’re going to get a reminder of what summer really means: 100°F. I’ve been good lately. I’ve been walking for 40 minutes three times a week and not eating too much of the good bad [...]

It’s about 2 inches long. There are several more but this is the first and largest. This plant is growing in one of those upside down planters. We have two tomato plants also but no little tomatoes on them yet.

Today my mother would have been 79. For several weeks I’ve been thinking about what I would say on this day but I really don’t have anything… so, just a flower. I know that, like me, Mom didn’t have just one favorite flower but she liked moss rose a lot (and so do I) and [...]

This will be my first Mother’s Day without my mother. The first Mother’s Day that I don’t get to pick out a pretty card to send. The first Mother’s Day that I don’t get to call and talk to her. If I could thank my mother for just three things it would be these: Reading. [...]

That’s my mom with the accordion. The other people in the picture are her brother and step-sister. She stopped playing the accordion sometime before I was born because she couldn’t afford to buy her instrument. I never heard her play. One time, when I was about 8 or 9 I think, someone brought an accordion [...]

Just a recent picture of my neighbor’s pond.

This is the quilt I made for my sister-in-law for Christmas. She loves it. I don’t have a good place to display quilts for photographs so I draped it over a table. This is just one corner of it. It’s a large quilt. I highly recommend clicking on the image and viewing the original size [...]

I suppose my maternal grandmother was a slightly odd person. Of course I never thought of her as particularly odd. She was my grandmother and I couldn’t imagine her being any other way. But her interests and beliefs were a fairly strange mix. She was superstitious and yet very interested in science. More than anything [...]