2013 Favorite Images: Month by Month

I have spent time recently reorganizing photos, rereading posts, revisiting calendars, and reflecting on the last year. I saw some beautiful places…

Remember December: Favorite Images

My brother has arrived at our childhood home and is helping our mother prepare for the Christmas holiday. As he describes the preparing of food, dec…

Remember December: Inside Recess

As the weather gets colder plans are made at our school for inside recess. Okay. Silver King and Sunnyside alumni.... did we ever stay inside at rec…

Remember December: Baby, It's Cold Outside

I have often written about the beauty I find in living with four seasons. There are rituals attached to each of the seasons, especially if you live …

Remember December: White Christmas

This month I hope to share a post each day that brings to light memories of the Christmas season. So many parts of the celebration of Christmas hold …

Thanks

My way of ending a very special Thanksgiving day is to share this favorite poem. Thanks by  W. S. Merwin Listen  with the night falling we are saying th…

Being Thankful: Annie, Shelby and the Cat Kingdom

Yes... every day I am thankful for our dog and cat kingdom at Martin Creek Gardens . Most of the time all of them live in harmony. They provide comp…

Being Thankful: Updike, Poetry, Loveliness

There are so many poems that express the process of late fall.  Even though we are not quite at this part of fall,  I love this poem because if does di…

Being Thankful: The Beauty of Apples

While exploring  the Methow Valley last week-end we discovered apples everywhere. They were still remaining on trees where we were staying. Others …

Being Thankful: Aspens

I don't ever remember aspens being around when I grew up in Kellogg. I remember maples and elms, but no aspens.  I don't know when I first n…

Being Thankful: Three Traveling Partners

We always try to plan a week-end getaway on Veteran's Day week-end. It is that time after first quarter, grades, and parent conferences. It is a …

Being Thankful :Billy Graham

Tonight we sat in our living room and were moved by thirty uninterrupted inspiring minutes of the ideals of  Billy Graham.  We both came to the concl…

Being Thankful: Billy Collins, A Table, and a Poem

I  Ask You  by Billy Collins What scene would I want to be enveloped in more than this one, an ordinary night at the kitchen table, floral wallpaper press…