Category Archives: REALITY

For some reason I always manage to make an excellent turkey, but one thing that made things special this year is that most of the herbs in the stuffing, a butternut squash side dish, and the wine was home grown … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Giving thanks for memories of family and good friends, moments in time that will forever remain in place.  Happy Thanksgiving to you all.

…the first sorry flakes of this winter’s snowfall. And I still have no heat in the shop. Continue reading →

Oh, poor Sally.  It takes me months to finish her work and when does she finally get to come and pick it up?  On a Sunday, when I charge rates at time and a half. Continue reading →

My back is aching from standing all day and if I take a deep breath it gets stuck.  Leftover pork roast with gravy for dinner, and worth the bit of prep, baked apples with brown sugar and butter and sour … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Am absolutely exhausted and hurtin’.  Because of my own lack of productive energy in the shop for a while, I just hustled and did some heavy duty framing in the last few days.  And those days were at least ten, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s after nine and I’m still in the frameshop.  I got in here before eight this morning.  I am tired. My own fault; I’ve been letting things slide into a pileup for months, a habit from a couple of years … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I know, I know, I know: My slowdown has wheeled to a near stop here.  However, I’ve been writing both in my Storyspace project (the damn thing has grown from 75 writing spaces to over 200) and have posted about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Took these early this morning and forgot to post them.  No Photoshopping here, not even cropped, so you can see the sign across the street, the overhang of our roof, the laurel bush in front.

A decade of ideas.  Shedding convention and inhibition.  Expanding the mind.  Flowers and peace and forget the problems and responsibilities, they’ve all been planned for and taken as they come.  Some things are simply out of our control, focus then … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Hot damn; if I don’t quit playing the Willie video below I ain’t gonna be doin’ no writin’ neither. You know how they say that men age better than women?  Well I likely wouldn’t have looked twice at Willie in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This started off my morning: "Pancho and Lefty" by Willie and Dylan.  Enjoy. Continue reading →

While I often feel one with nature, and lose not a seed or spark of life and even now, separate the seeds from dead headed zinnias, salvias and such; crumble cilantro, dill and basil into labeled jars, the natural world … Continue reading →

Went for a renewal of my driver’s license yesterday.  Depressed because you know how these things come out, and I’d finally gotten a photo that I wasn’t ashamed to produce when necessary.  Like today at the voting booth.  It came … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Woman walks into my shop, we talk about the weather as we work together on her piece.  I agree with her, it’s cool but nice enough it being November after all. She opens up the door to leave and for … Continue reading → Continue reading →