Photo Memory of the Week
Backyard Blog
2026 May 22: Here's the backyard this week:
- an iris up for what seems like just a few minutes (and technically in the front yard)
- the lilac making its own short showing
- the crabapple, also technically in the front yard
- the magnolia past its prime but still lovely
Category Archives: Feeling Clearly
Happy Warriors All
L’chaim! To life! Continue reading
The Disorientation Express
Sometimes the weirdest part of the flight happens on the ground. Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Laughing Frequently, New Perspectives
Tagged Trains & Boats & Planes
8 Comments
Long Periods of Boredom
Steady as she goes, until she doesn’t. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Photos of Fauna
Tagged Attitudes, Birds, Culture
11 Comments
Home
The Bunny Report. Continue reading
Bunny & C.S. Lewis
More thoughts on Bunny’s unauthorized side-trip. Continue reading
What Has Been
A smaller but not a more-diminished life. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Mortality, Photos of Fauna, Photos of Flora
Tagged Aging, Attitudes, Flowers, Insects
11 Comments
Another Look
Oh the tricky choice of category. Flowers? Other plants? You be the judge. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Photos of Flora
Tagged Attitudes, Flowers, Other Plants
8 Comments
The Squirrellest Month
Why did T.S. Eliot fuss about lilacs? Didn’t his garden have squirrels? Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Photos of Flora
Tagged Attitudes, Flowers
6 Comments
Except Me
Old lessons, re-learned. Continue reading
Posted in Day-to-Day Encounters, Feeling Clearly, Relationships and Behaviour, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Community
8 Comments