The Changing Seasons, March 2023 March is the season of the most and least change. It’s still winter here in the north and the trees look bare — but really, they are budding and in a few weeks, will turn to… Read More ›
Marilyn Armstrong
MONOCHROME CLOUDS
CBWC: Clouds Clouds look better — brilliant — in black & white. Better than in color. These were taken locally, but also over the Arizonan deserts.
SO WHAT ABOUT BLOGGING?
Fandango’s Provocative Question #207 This week’s question is interesting. As a writer, reader, commenter, photographer and now there is also the podcast which eats up a chunk of time — it seems to me that pretty much any time I’m not… Read More ›
SWEET AND SOUR CHICKEN (OR SOMETHING ELSE)
You can make this dish using chicken, beef, pork or tofu. It’s all about the sauce. The dish was originally considered “dessert.” Chinese meals didn’t have dessert as we understand it. Sweet dishes were dessert, but were part of the… Read More ›
COVID’S FINAL COUGH
Two weeks later, we finally know we didn’t transmit COVID to Tom or Ellin. I’m not sure it’s possible to completely avoid it, especially as it’s turning into something different than it was at its beginning. It’s lethalness has diminished…. Read More ›
BRIGHT YELLOW DAISY
FOTD – March 29 – Gerbera Daisy Garry felt I needed cheering up so he bought me the brightest yellow gerbera daisy he could find. It’s in a little pot and if it survives, I can plant it outside in a… Read More ›
DAWDLING AWAY THE TIME
The Garden Dawdler I thought I’d try out the questions this week being as all I seem to have on my mind is reading and sleeping. Is the WHY to everything important? To me it is, but I’ve gotten the… Read More ›
WHAT’S IN THE CUPBOARD?
All I wanted to do was open some windows. It was a lovely day and the sun was shining. Well, it was shining in the morning, anyway. Later, not so much. Still, since I don’t seem to be going anywhere… Read More ›
ALMOST SPRING
Share Your World 27th March Much to my chagrin, we are “rebounding” on COVID. Not seriously, but enough so I feel like the progress I made is disappearing. I’m not desperately ill, but I’m not where I hoped I’d be by… Read More ›
CACTUS FLOWERS
FOTD – March 27 – Cactus flowers in early spring My Christmas cactus has given up any relationship to winter holidays and seems to have decided to flower all the time. A flower blooms, a new bud forms. The flower dies?… Read More ›
PRETTIEST LITTLEST RED SQUIRREL
Since I stopped filling the flat feeders, we don’t get as many squirrels. That doesn’t mean we don’t get squirrels. If you get up early in the morning — especially right after dawn — you will easily see a dozen… Read More ›
BLUEBIRDS ARE BACK
I have gone from seeds to suet only because the Brown-headed Cowbirds cannot cling and thus do not eat the suet, though I’m sure they would if they could. So I have left the suet feeders up. Most of the… Read More ›
MEDIA WAR STORIES, EPISODE 6
Episode 6 has arrived! Please welcome John Corcoran (but everyone calls him “Corc”) who used to live here (and there, and also there) and is now in California and like the rest of us, retired. He’s got a lot of… Read More ›
ORCHIDS AND THE BEGINNING OF NEW CACTUS FLOWERS
Owen says we have a huge number of crocuses suddenly in the main garden — many more than last year. I haven’t been outside in a while, so tomorrow I willl try to get myself downstairs and outside with my… Read More ›
THE FINAL PIN FALLS
And now, it’s Garry’s turn. He got up, did a telephone visit with the doctor, got his prescription for paxlovid, instructed to take mine until his come home with Owen later. Then, I put him back to bed. I knew… Read More ›
OUTSIDE
I stood at my bathroom window looking out. It’s a different angle to the one I usually have, from either the dining room or kitchen — or even Garry’s bathroom. Mine is at the very end of the house and… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 