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Coming from Post. All photos mine, unless noted. Like to spend time outdoors. Science lover. Advocate for patients’ voices. Travel IF, and while you can…
Watching a Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart is one of our must-do holiday traditions.

Scrooge’s words about “decreasing the surplus population” ring particularly true this year and seems to be a goal from those in power.
December 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekXforXmas

We try to do a Christmas jigsaw puzzle every year. This year it’s a welcome distraction from the news.
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

View from our screened-in porch this morning.
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Had to send this picture of the view from our screened-in porch this morning.

They cancel school here because there are a lot of back roads with hills and they just don’t have the equipment for all of them. If we get ice, forget it - no school for days.
December 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I have been determined since last year that miserable/hateful people will not steal our joy. Not always easy.

So we try to find it as often as we can, whether it’s a great meal, nature, grandkids, gardening, travel, or a good SciFi show.

Enjoy what makes you happy, try to ignore the haters.
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The news is filled with evil deeds by evil people. When we get discouraged, we remember there are so many GOOD people working and volunteering to help others. We won’t let the evil people steal our JOY. We choose to mitigate their evil by helping.

Kindness is free.
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Sago cyad 🌱- spotted in Portugal
#Travel - October 2025
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Morning Bluesky. Didn’t see the Northern Lights last night, but we have a gorgeous sunrise today.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Grottos at Lagos, Portugal, October 2025.

Now more than ever, #Travel
IF, and while you can.
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Timeline cleanse needed?

Look for beauty in unlikely places. Lantana spotted at petrol station in Portugal - October 2025. #Travel
🌱
October 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOforOpulent
#Travel - London, September 2023

Spotted at the Victoria and Albert Museum
October 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Bright rays of sun cutting through the clouds above the tree line this morning.
October 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
View from a hike on Sharp Top Trail a few weeks ago. Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia.

Needed a timeline cleanse from the relentless bad news. This seems to be a repeating theme in 2025.
October 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Current conundrum - leave the planter outside all winter so the squirrel can find its buried treasures later, or remove spent dill and move planter inside?

Decision made - planter stays outside. Dill stays in planter, maybe to return next spring. 🌱
October 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekNforNight
#Travel - Port of Algiers, Algeria - December 2024.
Now, MORE THAN EVER, travel IF, and while you can.
September 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Last defiant flowering of the zinnia - chewed down to twigs twice this year by the deer. 🌱
September 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekMforMemories

Adapted my late mother-in-law’s recipe for nut rolls and make them almost every year. She would make them every Easter and Christmas. Pic of slice.
September 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekLforLines
#Travel - April 2023

Cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium.
September 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekKforKaraoke

“Somewhere Over the Rainbow…”

Over the Mediterranean Sea - December 2024.
September 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekJforJetBlack
#Travel

Spotted in Emerald Isle, North Carolina - June 2025.
Artist unknown.
September 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Timeline cleanse - immune system re-set.

Orange tree in Tunisia, December 2024.
#Travel - now more than ever. If, and while you can.
September 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Last batch of pesto, prepped and ready to freeze. Bumper crop of basil this year. 🌱
September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekJforJetBlack
#Travel - Corsica, France - December 2024

Napoleon statue on display.
September 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
#SundayStunday

Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia Sharp Top hike today.
August 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Morning, Bluesky. With unseasonably (yet welcome) cooler weather this week, we get some incredible sunrises to banish the darkness.
August 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM