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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.
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
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.
Scrooge’s words about “decreasing the surplus population” ring particularly true this year and seems to be a goal from those in power.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekXforXmas
We try to do a Christmas jigsaw puzzle every year. This year it’s a welcome distraction from the news.
#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
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekXforXmas
We try to do a Christmas jigsaw puzzle every year. This year it’s a welcome distraction from the news.
#WeekXforXmas
We try to do a Christmas jigsaw puzzle every year. This year it’s a welcome distraction from the news.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
View from our screened-in porch this morning.
View from our screened-in porch this morning.
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
View from our screened-in porch this morning.
View from our screened-in porch this morning.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Kindness is free.
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 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.
Kindness is free.
Morning Bluesky. Didn’t see the Northern Lights last night, but we have a gorgeous sunrise today.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Morning Bluesky. Didn’t see the Northern Lights last night, but we have a gorgeous sunrise today.
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOforOpulent
#Travel - London, September 2023
Spotted at the Victoria and Albert Museum
#WeekOforOpulent
#Travel - London, September 2023
Spotted at the Victoria and Albert Museum
October 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOforOpulent
#Travel - London, September 2023
Spotted at the Victoria and Albert Museum
#WeekOforOpulent
#Travel - London, September 2023
Spotted at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Bright rays of sun cutting through the clouds above the tree line this morning.
October 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Bright rays of sun cutting through the clouds above the tree line this morning.
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.
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
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.
Needed a timeline cleanse from the relentless bad news. This seems to be a repeating theme in 2025.
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. 🌱
Decision made - planter stays outside. Dill stays in planter, maybe to return next spring. 🌱
October 1, 2025 at 7:34 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. 🌱
Decision made - planter stays outside. Dill stays in planter, maybe to return next spring. 🌱
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekNforNight
#Travel - Port of Algiers, Algeria - December 2024.
Now, MORE THAN EVER, travel IF, and while you can.
#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
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekNforNight
#Travel - Port of Algiers, Algeria - December 2024.
Now, MORE THAN EVER, travel IF, and while you can.
#WeekNforNight
#Travel - Port of Algiers, Algeria - December 2024.
Now, MORE THAN EVER, travel IF, and while you can.
Last defiant flowering of the zinnia - chewed down to twigs twice this year by the deer. 🌱
September 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Last defiant flowering of the zinnia - chewed down to twigs twice this year by the deer. 🌱
#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.
#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
#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.
#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 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekKforKaraoke
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow…”
Over the Mediterranean Sea - December 2024.
#WeekKforKaraoke
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow…”
Over the Mediterranean Sea - December 2024.
September 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekKforKaraoke
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow…”
Over the Mediterranean Sea - December 2024.
#WeekKforKaraoke
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow…”
Over the Mediterranean Sea - December 2024.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekJforJetBlack
#Travel
Spotted in Emerald Isle, North Carolina - June 2025.
Artist unknown.
#WeekJforJetBlack
#Travel
Spotted in Emerald Isle, North Carolina - June 2025.
Artist unknown.
September 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekJforJetBlack
#Travel
Spotted in Emerald Isle, North Carolina - June 2025.
Artist unknown.
#WeekJforJetBlack
#Travel
Spotted in Emerald Isle, North Carolina - June 2025.
Artist unknown.
Last batch of pesto, prepped and ready to freeze. Bumper crop of basil this year. 🌱
September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Last batch of pesto, prepped and ready to freeze. Bumper crop of basil this year. 🌱
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekJforJetBlack
#Travel - Corsica, France - December 2024
Napoleon statue on display.
#WeekJforJetBlack
#Travel - Corsica, France - December 2024
Napoleon statue on display.
September 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekJforJetBlack
#Travel - Corsica, France - December 2024
Napoleon statue on display.
#WeekJforJetBlack
#Travel - Corsica, France - December 2024
Napoleon statue on display.
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
Morning, Bluesky. With unseasonably (yet welcome) cooler weather this week, we get some incredible sunrises to banish the darkness.