When queried about her choice of Newtons, she said:
I like my Newtons figgy and original.
Proving once again that she is a woman who does, indeed, live by her stated motto:
IF SOMETHING WORKS, STICK WITH IT.
[Hello FTC! Just to be clear, you do realize that I’m not being paid for my opinion here, right? That I’m just babbling without any compensation whatsoever. OK then. We’re good.]
“Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.”
~ from Henry Miller’s 11 Commandments for writing
Last night as I was preparing dinner I glanced across the kitchen and saw this prism of light on the cabinet drawer handle. Isn’t it pretty? I was mesmerized by it, so I took a photo of it.
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Then a few minutes later I looked outside and saw the clear autumn sky. So naturally I stopped what I was doing again to take a photo of it. I always adore photos of the sky taken through trees.
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Looking at these photos all I can think is that life is in the details. Simple moments remembered. Beautiful colors created by the play of light in the early evening that charmed me into taking photos… just because.
“I know nothing.” ~ Nancy Botwin, Weeds
Years ago Zen-Den and I went to a garden show that was held in a city park. I’ve always wanted to go back to that park and see what else was there beyond what we saw during the show.
I was convinced that the entire park was a nice, manicured city park which would be a lovely place to go for a stroll on a gorgeous fall afternoon before we headed to the grocery to do some shopping. So on this past Sunday afternoon Z-D and I made our way back to that city park where we quickly figured out that I was wrong. There was a lot more to this park than I realized.
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Despite appearing on the surface to be civilized, it turned out that many parts of this city park were more rugged than paved. In fact, in some places it was almost creepy with a dirt path through overgrown vines + shrubs + HUGE trees blocking out all the daylight.
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Just about the time that Z-D and I were beginning to wonder what we’d gotten ourselves into with this walk, we came back around a trail loop and found ourselves walking through this stretch of well-maintained park. Looking at the colorful leaves was mesmerizing, and made the effort to get there all the more worth it.
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When we got back to our car we realized that we’d wandered, trudged & walked for over one hour and had seen HALF of this city park. Apparently this park is quite large.
Our Sunday afternoon in the park might not have been the adventure that I thought we were going to have, but it was fun nonetheless. Turns out that sometimes [many times?] not knowing where I’m going, works in my favor.
THE SPECTACLED BEAN 