Pika after her vacation in the mountains!

side entrance to our house
Clematis 'fascination'
Sea Holly
rain garden
Fuchsia 'rose quartet'
miniature petunias
clumping Clematis 'bijou'
japanese forest grass
lettuces

"...to be lucky to be man and woman,
not tar paper and giraffe,
not paperclip and race car...."
excerpt from Infinitive Ode~Dean Young

another Summer in Seattle

"I'm sitting here in the dirt and I don't know what to do. Like most people I'm only prepared for the life I've already lived, none of which included this sort of thing".
Jim Harrison ~ the woman lit by fireflies

Dishwater

Slap of the screen door, flat knock
of my grandmother’s boxy black shoes
on the wooden stoop, the hush and sweep
of her knob-kneed, cotton-aproned stride
out to the edge and then, toed in
with a furious twist and heave,
a bridge that leaps from her hot red hands
and hangs there shining for fifty years
over the mystified chickens,
over the swaying nettles, the ragweed,
the clay slope down to the creek,
over the redwing blackbirds in the tops
of the willows, a glorious rainbow
with an empty dishpan swinging at one end.


—Ted Kooser (1939- )

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that
the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." 

~ Bertrand Russell