I was awake earlier. Boom—now I am not. Miraculous winter sun bends its way into my upstairs office, where I haven’t been in days. I have online classes to work through, marketing plans for ThanxBot to investigate and implement, fall cleanup to get to (it is March), spring cleanup to work my way around…
Birds of a Feather
Today's Thanx word was 'birds.' Who isn't appreciative of birds? In a way, I feel I am every day. In warm weather I open the kitchen door and am often overwhelmed by the day long cacophony of nearby activity in our fountain- crows, Stellar's Jays, robins, house finches, bushtits, sparrows, occasionally Western Tanagers. Birds bathing,
Today’s Gratitude-- Streets
Today, my randomly generated Thanx suggestion was “streets.” OK, boring, yes? NO! I LOVE love love streets! Yet I rarely think of them in and of themselves. Do you?
What can one say—imagine ancient streets of Rome, yet today teeming with citizens and visitors, shops, vehicles, smells, sounds, LIFE extending straight for
Framing the Photo
I mentioned to my away-on-travels daughter that I had eaten the first salad picked from the garden last night. She was thrilled and wanted photos of the garden, so I obliged. I got low to the green rippled row of romaine, focused in on the filling pea pods, caught the light just right on the thyme, the baby tomatoes, the prickly opening artichoke.
They were lovely photos of a lush vegetable garden, but when she oohed and aahed I realized