1. Green lunch.
2. Spoiling HR (Husband Robert, you should know that by now!) with a new “foot spa”
(I’m beginning to wonder how much longer he’s going to play this “I’m-so-sick card.”)
3. Grandaughter Isabelle at her FIRST night of gymnastics last night.
4. Grapes.
5. Yellow.
Weekend Joy to You!
🎶 Me and my shadow strolling down the avenue. 🎵
“When I go out on sunny days,
Why, there it is beside me:
And there it skips and there it plays,
And from it I can’t hide me.
I cannot run away from it,
It runs as fast as Fido;
And if I stand or if I sit
It stands and sits as I do.”
— The Little Boy and His Shadow by Madison Cawein
Valentine’s Day Marveling at all the “Love Doors” on a neighborhood walk here in my Historic District Savannah.
HAPPIEST OF VALENTINE’S DAYS TO YOU!
Ginkgo is marvel-worthy.
I saw him from a distance.
Could it be my buddy, Ginkgo?
Closer look.
Yes! I love this tree.
Ginkgo Biloba, aka Maidenhair Tree
A Monday of marveling to you!
For this blog category, “Countdown to Christmas: Our Travel Tree & Georgia State Parks,” each day between December 1 and 25, I take a pic of a state park ornament on our Travel Tree and briefly highlight that park.
Mistletoe State Park (isn’t that a cool Christmasy name?) is located north of Augusta on the southern shore of Lake Thurman. The park gets its name from Mistletoe Corners, a nearby unincorporated township where people used to gather (maybe still do) to gather mistletoe during the winter holiday season. (I wonder if there’s a bunch of smooching going on at these gatherings. I’m trying to picture it.)
For some reason or other, which I didn’t have sense enough to really understand, Mistletoe’s Lake Thurman is one of the best bass fishing spots in the entire nation.
The only fishing which I’ve ever done is at those little carnivals or fairs or church basement fund raisers where a bed sheet is carelessly thrown over a makeshift clothesline, and an embarrassed adult stands behind the sheet with some cheap prizes. When the “fisherperson” throws her or his or they—it’s 2020!— fishing line over the sheet, back comes flying a little crackerjack-type prize clothes-pinned to your fishing line! I just LOVE fishing! TMI?
Now be honest, do we look like fishermen? Well, maybe Robert does, a tiny bit. I look like Forest Gump on a pier …
But the hiking was terrific at Mistletoe.
And we found little painted rocks scattered all around!
They excited me as much as anything has in years!
Oops …
The beauty of Mistletoe State Park …
Happy CHRISTMAS EVE!
Go kiss somebody!
NealEnJoy 