Right place. Right time.

Yellow reflection.

Yellow car.

Yellow signage.

Oh happy Spring day,

timing is everything.

Reflections and Shadows

Even sitting in the light
Darkness come in many colors.
Stained colors spill
Offer me comfort as they
Lay waste to the shell
That encased me.

Musing on moving

Was feeling restless today. Waiting for the phone to ring is like a level of purgatory when you are selling your home.
You wait. You schedule a visit. You pray that this will be the ONE.

I couldn't stand it anymore and headed downtown to visit with friend, Dana, at her sweet design shop, @emporium228.  So much to love there. Her painted furniture gives grand new life to otherwise unloved furniture that in another time would be broken up for kindling. Anyway, distraction accomplished.

Tension

My half empty glass

Bright sunshine cannot enter

High anxiety

Haiku My Heart

Winter's stillness froze
Then melted into Springtime
Summer burnt, Fall shook

Leafy carpet spread
Protective covering rug
Cycle starts again

Moving Lesson

One of the lessons you learn when going through the process of moving is just how little you need in order to live comfortably. For a collector like me this can be a jarring lesson.  I find myself very comfortable living in our scaled down home. Collections are packed. Books are few, well, relatively few, that is. And, adding to my collections has come to an almost screeching halt. Notice. I did say almost.

Some things you just can't say no to and so it was that I found these charming cups that are future homes for succulents.  These thrift store finds cost less than $2. However . . .

On the other end of the cost spectrum are the milagros cross and milagros/Divine Mercy frame I found at Digs, my favorite treasure store in my soon to be former home of Turlock. Like I said, here are some things I just can't say no to.

I love Mexican motifs and growing up in Southern California, it's pretty hard to miss this imprint. Our near future home will be filled with splashes of Mexican art, Oaxacan birds, milagros, mid-century planters, and other folk art. All will have pride of place in our Missouri home.

We were at our usual Sunday evening watering hole last night and Don's weekly dessert treat came dressed with two cherries.  Since Don will never, ever share his ice cream sundae cherries, Grizzly Rock owner and friend, Gayle brought me two. I was so excited, I ate one immediately, so, only one made it into the appearance here.