Steps to Retirement, Little Steps,

Strawberry tree (arbutus uneda) with its magic trick of  offering fruit and flower simultaneously!  I’ve been disappointed with my posts lately, wishing I could find time for some of the reflective writing I really enjoy…

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Autumn Running, Thinking, Working, Retiring. . . . Blazing Colourfully. . . .

 I was home getting a drink and using the toilet in between loops of my long run this morning when the slanting sunlight of an early Fall morning lit the autumn foliage in the back…

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Tuesday Morning Mystery, Natural History, and Even a Dose of Perspective!

 If you’d been here on the weekend, I might have invited you to come sit by the beach for a while with a glass of wine or a cup of tea.  But I’m also very…

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Summer Birthday of a VIP!

Summer! We have our granddaughter here for the week, and it’s glorious weather! Garden shots above, centered by “Girl in a Hammock” (pictured just underneath a shot of a flotilla of canoes gathering in front…

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Doors of Peschici

You’ll have noticed that I’m trying to bring my blog back home, so that some of last week’s Five Things Fridaywere pictures of how the garden is doing after its month of neglect, and of…

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