via Daily Prompt: Radiant Looking at the radiant smile of that mischievous grin reaches into my old soul, recreating a long forgotten maternal love pulsing through me. How can a little whirligig of a human capture the hearts of everyone in the family, young and old, married and single? A grandchild makes fools of us…
Malibu Sunrise
Following the beauty of countless sunsets has been a lifetime commitment. Checking the timeliness of the sunset with the newly available apps has contributed to the ease of knowing when and where to be ready for the moment and be accessible for memorializing this perpetual elegance. But, I digress … Look at this impromptu moment…
My Trip to Austin
Last summer my son and his wife suggested we might want to accompany his family to Austin. I have never been there so my husband and I excitedly said yes and we would be HAPPY to help with their two-year old. We just got back yesterday and this is the only view we got of Austin…
The South in the Days After the BIG Snow
Okay I will admit that the only reason I can comment on the snow in the South is that I am an escapee from the cold and miserable weather in the Mid-Atlantic, particularly Ocean City with its biting damp winds and freezing bay and ocean waters. As we made the slow descent down the coast…
Sludge
via Daily Prompt: Sludge The media take “pen” in hand, hold camera to eye, adjust to a sense of the new reality each morning and attempt to dog-paddle through the sludge passing for current events of the day. In years past it was noble to expose sleaze and rottenness, not just wallow in the ooze…
Particular
via Daily Prompt: Particular Growing up in an emotionally chaotic environment pushes many otherwise healthy children to develop coping skills, keeping the fears of adult explosive displays of temper boxed in a cylinder rolling through their lives but moving past as a fall leaf tumbling along the sidewalk. The path is available to walk leaving…
Morning Sunrise v Man
The quintessential gift of retirement is time. In my case, I also can live beautifully wedged between the ocean and a bay. And walk. Each morning I slip the bonds of sleep reluctantly to walk to the Atlantic Ocean with my dog, catching the perpetual sunrise, unique each day in its angle on the ocean…
Pledge to Flag
This little boy captures one of the faces of America…he doesn’t care about diversity, FAKE news, religious differences, coastal politics. He is an American !
A Beautiful Planet
Considering the weather, drizzly and cloudy, and the age of my grandson, five rambunctious years old, the dreaded “what do we do today?” hung heavy in the moist and dismal air the morning we sat bored, on the well-worn couch in the living room of my working daughter, as we contemplated the long day ahead. …
Life with a Dog
“The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn’t pose. He isn’t aware of the camera.” Patrick Demarchelier The adorable pulchritude of a furry golden retriever regally relaxed in the chair, knowingly staring into the lens with an air of passionate sincerity, ears forward, gazing innocently with coal-black pools of endearment. In the fullness of…
Life Gets Better 