Musings on cats, travel, gardens and life
After a break from blogging, I’m ready to jump back in! So here’s a look back at some Memorable Moments from 2024, with pictures I’ve chosen for their lines and shapes, squaring them for Geometric Squares! I’ll start with a hike through Box Canyon,… Continue Reading “Happy New Year in Squares, a Look Back at some Memorable Moments!”
In considering cozy, I immediately thought of my two cats, Benji, the lap cat, who loves to snuggle anytime, anywhere. And Tiger, who prefers cozying up to a warm fire. Sharing on a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon with Sunday Stills #Cozy. ~ Susanne
First there was Tiger and Shadow, brothers in the flesh. They came to us at the age of five, middle aged in cat years, from a Cat Hotel where they’d been dropped off when the owner could no longer keep them. (Yes, there are… Continue Reading “Two are Better than One, Cats that is”
To celebrate Earth Day, we traveled to one of our favorite places last week to enjoy the tallest trees on earth, the Coast Redwoods of Northern California. Thanks to the efforts of the Save the Redwoods League, formed in 1918, there were many ancient… Continue Reading “Celebrating the Coast Redwoods for Belated Earth Day”
Who can keep them all straight? I’ll start with the largest hunk of quartz I’ve ever seen, an 8,000-pound slab from Arkansas, newly obtained by the Smithsonian. “Quartz is one of the most common minerals in the Earth’s crust. As a mineral name, quartz… Continue Reading “Quartz, Minerals, Rocks, and Other Gems”
For this week’s Sunday Stills Challenge #Urban I thought I’d share a few of my favorite cities starting with the largest. London “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”… Continue Reading “Cities Come in All Sizes”
For this week’s Sunday Stills Challenge, I went searching through my archives for pictures of sunrise and sunset, since I had little to draw from so far in 2024. I intended to use multiple locations but got stuck in Paradise, at Mt Rainier. We… Continue Reading “Sun Goes Down, Sun Comes Up at Paradise, Mt. Rainier”
Last month we had tantalizing glimpses of spring and I puttered in the yard, snipping and trimming and straightening up the garden, even planting a new rose, Ketchup and Mustard – I refuse to give up on roses. The birds were out and about… Continue Reading “Spring Green”
Saturday started out clear and (mostly) sunny. We were desperate to get out of the house after a long, rainy week, so we headed to Redondo Beach in Des Moines (the one in Washington not Iowa.) But the sunshine was fleeting and by the… Continue Reading “Rainy Day at Redondo Beach”