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La Sarmiento


La Sarmiento

My blog category about quotations (or truths in any format) that ring true to me (and I hope to you, to us).


Yellow is SPRINGing up all over Savannah.



Even in our little sidewalk plantings …






On a couple of recent trips to our buddy Gordon‘s old farmhouse over in Effingham County GA, Robert and I discovered one of the greatest treasure treats on earth.
Ally’s Bakery in the town of Rincon.

Ally’s pastries are simply beyond delicious.



And Robert is embarrassingly obsessed with Ally’s artistic cookies.



He and his obsession really get on my nerves. Robert won’t eat (or more important, let me eat) the cookies until these ridiculous “photo sessions” are complete …


Meandering through the cozy shop on one visit, trying to burn off a few calories, I came across these oh-so-very-truthful T-shirts.




And this last one gave me such encouragement:


So if you’re ever around Savannah, drive over to Rincon and Ally’s Bakery.
Tell the delightful Ally (the one with the flour on her fingers or frosting on her nose), Hannah, Marci or any other friendly crew member that Neal and Robert sent you.

You’ll leave so much sweeter than when you arrived.


I love this delightful, insightful quote I ran across recently.
Haven’t we all had these folks in our lives? For whatever reason, they are not always with us. Childhood friends, school buddies, romantic partners, relatives and loved ones who passed too soon.
I am so very happy and thankful to have a bunch of dog-eared pages in my book. What about you?


Ocean Vuong On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
I love this quotation from Vietnamese author Ocean Vuong (isn’t that a great name?) in his fascinating and time-denying novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.
He’s right—memory certainly is a choice. I have brothers, and our memories of past events are quite often barely recognizable. And, of course, we sometimes simply choose not to remember certain aspects of the past.
A new blog category featuring simple but profound truths.



One of my favorite spots at the old farmhouse where we are staying … the OLD mailbox. Unused of course. Except by the birds.


So a while back, I did a short series of T-shirt Tuesdays with cool wildlife T-shirts I saw at the Savannah Wildlife Refuge gift shop.
Recently we went back, and I snapped a few more photos. (With a few folks staring at me for pulling the T-shirts off the racks and positioning them for my photo op.)
Today … the Heroic Heron.



Some of Robert’s photos of herons …



May we not be afraid to get our feet wet today.


HAPPY WET-FOOTED TUESDAY!

So a while back, I did a short series of T-shirt Tuesdays with cool wildlife T-shirts I saw at the Savannah Wildlife Refuge gift shop.
Recently we went back, and I snapped a few more photos. (With a few folks staring at me for pulling the T-shirts off the racks and positioning them for my photo op.)
Today … the Beautiful Butterfly.









Let’s try to get out of our cocoons today.
