No Egg Latkes.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

And for Friday the 13th..?

A curse and a blessing. One is naughty.. and one is nice.



Auld Daddy Darkness creeps frae his hole,
Black as a blackamoor, blin' as a mole....
~James Ferguson

Machiavelli and Zarathustra send their regards.

'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
~William Shakespeare

Winter Sunset

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--
Emily Dickinson

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

An Altar

"A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism."

- Dion Fortune

"Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is
reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon
and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass."

— Dogen

Reality.

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets. ”
― John Lennon

Red Poinsettia

Like chocolate.

Christmass Lights in Cleveland

Flux.

Passage.

Drift.

And so it goes.

Fortune Cookie Wisdom.

I smiled.

August Skies

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

~ William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

Oriental Cat Vs. Small Chihuahua

 In this corner of the old beat up chair, we have Kali the Feisty, weighing in at a svelte 4.5 pounds! And in this corner, we have the Mighty Zarathustra, weighing in at a hefty 15 pounds!

 It's cats vs dog in the epic and time old battle. All combatants will play nice, of course... it's all in fun!

The chi gets in a sneaky belly nip.

The cat bats her in the head, claws in.

Om nom the heads!

The kill!!!

I think the cat won eventually.... hard to tell sometimes..

And a video... because I can! (sorry it is sideways... I don't know how to fix that in YouTube)

Rhododendron Woods Walk

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
Robert Frost

My Grandmother's Garden

 Something we often do is plant things for my grandmother. It started years ago with my mother helping her put in a series of roses and a veggies garden at her then home. Today we continue this tradition...even if on a smaller scale.

A garden of Love grows in a Grandmother's heart.
-- Author Unknown

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.
~ Koichi Tanaka

I Start this in Golden Flowers

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"


I believe these to be Echinacea flowers.