Three Beautiful Things

This evening as I gazed across the lake from the deck I reflected on three beautiful things: a spring sky, mountains in the shadow, and longer evenin…

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #30

Poetry is a passion in my life. I have loved reading and rereading poetry and posting a poem each day this month. I may have to continue posting favo…

Grand Coulee Dam and the Lake Roosevelt Drawdown

When Grand Coulee Dam was constructed on the Columbia River in the 1930s the water behind the dam created Lake Roosevelt. It stretches from the dam …

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #29

There Is a Place There is a place where the museum houses thousands of paintings seen nowhere else in the world, the colors so bright they grab your eye…

WASL: Week 2

In the state of Washington public school students take the Washington Assessment of Student Learning. We gave the assessments three days last week a…

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #28

Purple Flower Poem Among the geranium, a rash of purple campanula begins, scattering like Chinese fireworks through the delicate tan and yellow tips of sa…

Spring Blooming in Pink

Such a beautiful site as I left my retreat today. I believe these are Japanese Magnolias. The warm weather yesterday brought them out into full bloom…

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #27

The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently is not silent, it is a speaking- out-loud voice in your head: it is spoken, a voice is saying it as you read. …

Photo Hunt: Funny Sign

posted on a second-hand store by Curlew, Wa . To find other photo hunters, go here.

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #26

In The End We Are All Light I love how old men carry purses for their wives, those stiff light beige or navy wedge-shaped bags that match the women’s pu…

My Digs For A Few Days

For the next few days I am attending a leadership retreat for the writing project group I involved with. This is my home away from home for the next …

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #25

How Are You Doing? As much as you deserve it, I wouldn’t wish this Sunday night on you- not the Osco at closing, not its two tired women and shaky security…

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #24

Analysis of Baseball It’s about the ball, the bat, and the mitt. Ball hits bat, or it hits mitt. Bat doesn’t hit ball, bat meets it. Ball bounces off bat, flies …

Seeing the New Landscape and More For the Woodpile

I am still not used to our new area when you reach the gate at our driveway. With the four big pine trees and landscape islands gone it looks so mu…

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #23

A favorite anthology of poetry I love is called Celebrate America in Poetry in Art. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution edited b…

Blueberry Hills Farms: A Must- Visit Place While at Lake Chelan

I always research everything about an area before we ever take a trip. It drives JEJ a bit crazy as I am taking notes, reading books, and searching o…

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #22

Invisible Indian A few weeks ago the cashier at the grocery store, seeing my dark hair and dark eyes, counted my change back to me in Spanish. Three days la…

Weekend Snapshot: April Snow Showers Please Bring May Flowers!

Yes, on April 20th we had snow in northeastern Washington. The amount varied from a light dusting at our house to 3-5 inches where some of my studen…

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #21

sunset over Lake Chelan Swift Things Are Beautiful Swift things are beautiful: Swallows and deer, And lightning that falls Bright-veined and clear, Rivers …

Celebrating National Poetry Month: #20 and Camera Critters #2

a collage constructed with love to Annie and Shelby Member of the Family What would I do without you My precious, furry friend?... Part mischief, but al…

Sibling Assignment # 61 : Where I'm From

I gave the sibling assignment this week. " Take the poem Where I'm From by George Ella Lyon and do your own version of where you are from. Y…