Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts

Monday, April 15, 2024

Progress Report - NaPoWriMo #13

4-15-24

Our almost-two-year-old grandson spent the weekend with Tom and me.  It was both wonderful and exhausting.  Needless to say no computers were opened; no words were written (or typed).  And I’m still recovering.  There is a reason 60-year-old women don’t have babies.  I bow and tip my metaphorical hat to the grandmas out there who have had to take over raising their grandchildren.  But, now for a few words.

 

April 14, and the first tulip has opened.

It’s a pink one that I planted a few years ago.

 

The blue and white Scillas

cover most of the hill

going down to the driveway.

 

Lilac leaves are opening,

though the flowers are a way off yet.

 

Last night we slept with the windows open

for the first time this year.

 

The winter has been mild

but it was a long time in leaving.                                           73

Thursday, September 3, 2020

Wordless Wednesday - Summer Smiles in Yellow



Back in that other place there was a thing called Wordless Wednesday.  You post a picture with no explanation and the hashtag "wordlesswednesday" (and whatever others are fitting).  So, this post is not wordless, and it's not Wednesday, but I'm going to start doing it here with this "wordy Thursday" picture. :)

On reading "The Diary of Anne Frank"

  I am reminded of the many things I take for granted. I have soap and water, as much as I like, I have books and outside sour...