A colorfully lovely new exhibit at our favorite art museum here in Savannah, The Jepsen Center.
Continually changing colors and configurations.
(As we all are.)
My Saturday Evening Post: 1/18/25 “Color!”
Tag: Photography
Five Friday Happy Bringers 1/17/25
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. Squirrels in our living room!
HR’s nickname is Squirrel.
2. The beauty of aging wood.
3. Clean water to drink. I SO take this incredible blessing for granted.
4. Our wonderful morning hike yesterday at J. F. Gregory Park down in Richmond Hill, about 45 minutes south of Savannah.
The park is home to a huge series of canals built in the 1800s (by enslaved persons) for rice cultivation. The canals flow into the Oveechee River, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
5. Flowers. We usually buy an inexpensive bouquet or two each week, divide them up and spread them around the house.
Flowers, like food, are essential to life.
May this weekend flower you with joy. At least, a little bit.
One-Word Wednesday 1/15/25
“Goodbye”
Winter Morning Stroll
Winter’s Chill here in Savannah (28 the other night — COLD FOR US!) can’t hold back downtown’s blooming colors.
May you find pretty sometime today.
“The Artful Dodger“ #24
A blog category about finding “art” in unexpected places and situations.
So I walked into the kitchen after Robert had been in there grabbing some grapes from the fridge.
I looked on the counter and saw this …
I started to get a tad irritated until my SAE (superior artistic eye) suddenly saw a work of art!
It is kinda pretty, isn’t it?
Shhh … Silent Sunday. 1/12/25
My Saturday Evening Post: 1/11/25 “The Highest Bidder?”
So back in 1985 I started saving my yearly/monthly calendars.
I’m not sure why.
So that makes … what? Forty years in 2025.
I suppose it started out as just a way to remember birthdays, appointments, to do’s and other important (or unimportant) dates I was prone to forget. This was before the days of “Siri, remind me ….”
But it morphed into jottings of my hopes and dreams, my frustrations, my successes, my problems, my New Year’s Resolutions (difficult to look back over today), my very … non-Facebook life.
As I skim through the pages of years/years of pages, I see emerging themes: family, children, travel, career, wife, ex-wife, coming out, husband, grandchildren, parental deaths, medical issues, joy, sorrow … Life.
I’m not sure what to do with them. Leave them to my daughters? Burn them?
The National Enquirer? People Magazine? The highest bidder?
Here’s to my new calendar for 2025 and whatever it may bring.
May your 2025 calendar be filled with Good.
And that’s my Saturday Evening Post. 1/11/2025.
Five Friday Happy Bringers 1/10/25
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. My Roasted Tomato, Garlic and Basil Soup.
With HR’s gooey Habanero Cheese Toast.
YUM!
2. Heated homes for cold winter days.
3. This Peanuts blessing I received the other night. I pass it on to you.
4. Reading Ina Garten’s fascinating memoir.
(Do you think it’s too late for me to become a world-famous, multimillion dollar celebrity chef?)
5. The memory of this little silk arrangement of spring daffodils in the downstairs winter bathroom of our Airbnb at a recent stay in Baltimore.
(It doesn’t take much to make me happy.)
I hope it doesn’t take much to make you happy this weekend.
Rest in Peace
So today I took down (a tad sadly) our Travel Tree.
If you have followed my little blog for a while (and why on earth would you not?), you may remember that Robert and I have a second, smaller Christmas Tree which we call our Travel Tree. All the ornaments are ones we have purchased on our various travels.
As I cleared the little white tree, my eyes kept resting on a couple of simple ornaments.
And I didn’t want to hurriedly take them off. So I let them hang around a while longer.
HR and I have visited Plains, GA, hometown of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, a couple of times, appreciating the small town that birthed such a tremendously kind and humanitarian couple.
May President Carter, as he is being laid to rest this evening next to his beloved Rosalynn, finally Rest in Eternal Peace, after a long life well lived.
NealEnJoy 