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The stairs leading to the backyard from my office leave a foot and a half of space between the cement patio and the shed door. On the other side of the steps is a faucet (out of sight) which is where I fasten the hose when I water the backyard. The second photo shows a…
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This popped up in my front yard last year. I didn’t plant it. This year, it’s gotten even bigger. I decided to keep looking through the archives, and found this picture of the Tattoo Museum on Main Street, Fort Bagg: Posting for Travel with Intent’s One-Word Sunday,
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I haven’t joined this challenge in such a long time! But I’m happy to share this photo of the lounge of the Bloomsbury Hotel, where I spent three blissful days over the holidays.
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Night, one of the cottages in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig
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Is it the end of November already? That was quick! Thank you, Becky, for hosting another fabulous Squares Challenge! I didn’t have time to look at more than a few galleries, but I’ll keep busy looking at Squares all through December. Pedestrian Bridge Across the River Liffey, Dublin, November
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St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, First Week of May Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge.
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River Mill, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, April 2025 Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge.
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Russell Square, London Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge. There’s quite a large shadow beneath the foreground tree, but it got cropped out when I made the photo into a square. There’s another, smaller tree shadow behind.
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The host of One Word Sunday is Debbie. River Mill, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland (April 2025)
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The host of this lens-artists challenge is Egidio/Through Brazilian Eyes. Scrolling through his gallery, I see that a quote accompanies each picture. There are many wonderful quotes, but my favorites are by Paulo Coelho and Fernando Passoa. Check them out here. Sharing some pictures I took when I was visiting Hampstead Heath, in May. In…
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One red T-shirt! Posting for Becky’s July 2025 Squares Challenge: Simply Red.
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Posting for Xingfu Mama’s Pull Up a Seat Challenge.
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I brought McPhee’s essay collection with me to Baltimore, where I attended the AWP 2026 conference. I didn’t get more than a few pages in, but the essay “Extremadura” is one I know I will be reading over and over again. Two famours explorers of the sixteenth century, Francisco de Orellana, and Vasco Nuñez de…
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Last Saturday, my neighbor held an open house for his garden. He has the most incredible backyard, crammed with every kind and color of tulip imaginable (except for black). He plants them all himself — it’s therapy for him! I previously posted pictures of his tulips, but here’s one more that didn’t make it into…
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Setting: A company town somewhere in Saudi Arabia Yvetter’s older French husband, the one who boozes and sleeps around, has been called out of town rather suddenly. Of course Phil is only too happy to keep Yvette company. “They ate grilled fish in Al Jubail, a sleep seaside village . . . They walked to…
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The garden is high in the hills above San Carlos. The street in front of it ends in a cul-de-sac with a spectacular view of the Valley. The house is on a bluff, so the gardener (it’s the husband: he has a stressful job in a high-tech company and gardening is his therapy) has created…
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We get backstory on every member of this atypical American family, including the Dad’s mistress LOL He’s my least favorite character in the book — the “saintly” one while his wife is the cold, frigid b**ch. So of course, he’s the one who ends up having an affair. Because he’s human, get it? But I’m…
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It isn’t until three-fourths of the way through Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont that her only grandson and sole heir, Desmond, shows up to visit her at the Claremont Hotel. He only does it because his mother, Mrs. Palfrey’s only child, has ordered him to go. It turns out Mrs. Palfrey has introduced her gorgeous,…
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Marianne Villanueva 
