Our trip down Giverny Lane or Monet’s Garden

The day started out sunny, very exciting, then turned cloudy and rainy. We weren’t quite sure what to do but, Den suggested we take a trip to Giverny to see Monet’s garden. Especially since it was one of my top 3 things I wanted to do while in Paris and our days here are dwindling [...]

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Love, Shakespeare and Walkin’ in the Rain

Yesterday was gorgeous, today not so much. Yesterday was May Day (Labor Day here) with beautiful sunny weather Everyone was out. There were demonstrations in some parts of the city with people here and about carrying flags. We took the subway to the oldest part of Paris to walk in Les Tuileries gardens. People were [...]

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Resolution for a New Year

New Year’s resolutions are always fraught with peril. We say we want to change something in our life… perhaps exercise more, eat less, or spend less… and we slowly lose interest. A few weeks later we’re back to the same old patterns. And with that comes defeat… we don’t accomplish what we set out to [...]

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Finding the sweet nectar in life…

A few weeks ago, I was visiting my parents. They have a bay window where their kitchen table sits and just outside is a hummingbird feeder and a little mock orange tree. What a joy it was to sit there during each meal and watch as the hummers would fly around, eat and sit in [...]

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Trees are beautiful!

We are visiting friends in the upper part of Oregon, “the gorge” as I hear them call it. Yesterday was rather cloudy and threatening rain. Nevertheless, I went for my morning walk anyway. There’s a park up the road, so I headed there. One of the things I love about walking is it affords me lots [...]

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