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Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling? 12/8/25

Posted on December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 by Neal Saye

Definitely Marveling this Monday!

This Monday morn finds Robert and me in Philadelphia (via an overnight Amtrak sleeper car!) after a delightful and holiday-ish weekend in our beloved Atlanta.

We’re from Savannah, and love its stunning beauty and unique and storied history, but the ATL is like our quirky, always-welcoming but busy younger sister who managed to marry up and simply has SO MUCH to show us and (if truth be told) to BRAG loudly about.

Here’s one of our sister’s sweatshirts:

Enough family drama.

On Friday night HR and I had evening reservations for the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s annual “Garden Lights, Holiday Nights” display.

Oh My Goodness!

This is what I was watching through the special glasses:

Then on Saturday afternoon we attended the absolutely incredible 45th Anniversary Holiday Concert of the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus.

And look, here’s the choristers. (I just learned that word.)

Wait, no, that’s just Robert and me.

The event was held in the beautiful Cathedral of Saint Philip on Peachtree Street in Atlanta..

Here they are!

We tried to audition, but they promptly told us to sit down and be quiet until the sing-a-long part.

Such Holiday Fun and Joy!

We have a full day planned in downtown Philadelphia today. I’ll tell you all about it soon. Now you have something to look forward to.

Encouragement

There’s More Than One Way to Defy Gravity

Posted on November 25, 2025November 25, 2025 by Neal Saye

So this afternoon, HR (Husband Robert, to the uninitiated), Ex-wife Donna and I went to see the current top-grossing film in the nation, Wicked: For Good.

We got our popcorn and headed for Auditorium One, when we decided we REALLY needed photo documentation (well, perhaps I alone decided that, but HR and Donna went along).

Not the greatest photo quality, but (spoiler alert for the rest of the post) I’m with the two Loves of My Life

In a weird way, just the three of us out together on a movie date is … Defying Gravity.

it may look dark in this theatre, but … it’s really not.

“It’s time to try defying gravity
I think I’ll try defying gravity
And you can’t pull me down”

I Have Been.

Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling?

Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling? 11/10/25

Posted on November 10, 2025 by Neal Saye

I’m marveling this Monday morn, remembering two recent preposterously delicious meals Robert and I shared.

First, Robert absolutely outdid himself the other night at supper with his Fisherman’s Pie.

Starring cod, shrimp, smoked salmon snd crab leg meat.

With a supporting cast of leeks, spinach and heavy cream. Topped off with succulent mashed potatoes.

Somewhat similar to a seafood chowder, with a thicker consistency.

Oh my GOODNESS.

The recipe HR used, in case you’re interested:

Trying not to be outdone, I put together (in my mother‘s old cast iron skillet, which actually belonged to her mother) another supper of Bone-In Pork Chops with Honey-crisp Apples and Spiced Cider.

It tasted like autumn!

And a link to my recipe:

https://share.google/D96MY25hXwzrjw0AH

P.S. I love using the word “supper” instead of “dinner.” It’s nostalgic. It’s home.

Joy in Nature

Tuesday Trees

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Neal Saye

Recently, Robert, and I were in Atlanta for their annual Pride Festival. One morning we ventured over to the always-magnificent Atlanta Botanical Garden.

In addition to over 10,000 pumpkins (!) on display (I’ll block about that a little later), there was a new exhibit, “Enchanted Trees” woven through the garden’s incredible natural landscape.

Here’s one:

Amazing Beauty!

Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling?

Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling? 10/20/25

Posted on October 20, 2025October 20, 2025 by Neal Saye

Marveling this morn.

Participating in the Savannah Photo Club’s Third Sunday Photo Walk yesterday, I came across this very mature, dead-looking rambling rose bush.

But as I got closer, i saw a defiant splash of red beckoning me through the branches.

A brilliant late-October duo.

“Old does not mean dead,” they said in unison.

Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling?

Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling? 9/1/25

Posted on September 1, 2025 by Neal Saye

September is here! And I am marveling this morning because it was 66° (!) when Robert and I headed out to one of our favorite coffee shops, Flora and Fauna. I actually wore a jacket! (I had to look around a bit for it.)

My coffee:

HR’s:

Happy September First!

Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling?

Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling? 8/25/25

Posted on August 25, 2025 by Neal Saye

Both moaning and marveling a bit this Monday.

Robert and I are grandson-, doggie- and house-sitting for Daughter Amy and Scott while they take Grandson Daniel off to his freshman year of college.

One of the duties is taking Coastal for walks.

And even though it’s less than a month from the beginning of fall, it’s still HOT here in Savannah — 88 with a real feel of 96 this afternoon.

So here I am walking Coastal this afternoon – Senior Citizen Edition.

Afterwards …

Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling?

Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling? 8/18/25

Posted on August 18, 2025 by Neal Saye

On my Monday morning walk today, I came upon a bit of a surprise: PINK AZALEAS (Savannah’s Springtime Sensation) contrarily blooming in the Heated Heart of August.

Good for them – and their rebellious nature.

I started to walk away, but then turned and asked them why on earth they were blooming NOW.

Their answer:

Delicious Joy

Any Thyme

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Neal Saye

“Robert, please get me a lemon and some fresh thyme,” I said-pled, as we finished up some shopping, and I headed to the car, while he was trekking across the street to one of our favorite little independent grocers.