tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5660128538026452752012-01-27T23:28:10.102-07:00Laloofahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07256023593175821427noreply@blogger.comBlogger2911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-566012853802645275.post-42284504092461726412012-01-25T08:33:00.009-07:002012-01-26T19:57:22.659-07:00

For this week's ABC Wednesday, I bring you a swarm of Bs!From Beautiful Birds...I looked out the window one morning last weekend and beheld a huge flock of birds in our two backyard juniper trees, breakfasting on juniper berries. They were so busy inside the dense evergreens, bouncing from branch to branch, that it took me a bit to identify them. They were Cedar Waxwings and Bohemian Waxwings -

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Happy Chinese New Year, and welcome to the year of the Black Water Dragon! (The Year of the Dragon doesn't actually begin for 12 days, on Feb 4, but since most folks mark the start of the new animal zodiac today, I don't want to feel left out!)Dragons in Chinese lore represent power from heaven. A dragon year is ambitious (often overly so), daring, and unpredictable (but aren't they all?), a year

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In celebration of the first week of a new round of ABC Wednesday, here are some lovely Architectural details on a few historic homes and buildings here in Sheridan that I photographed recently...Now an attorney's office, this was originally one of Sheridan's first banks, built in 1894. You can still make out the faded (or was there a feeble attempt to erase it?) lettering on top that says Bank of

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Well, once again it's taken me longer than I anticipated ~ these "open houses" are a lot of work! :-) But I'm finally ready to resume and conclude our tour of Dragonfly Cottage (with a few decor side-trips), starting with the tall and wide - but boring - hallway. :-) The master bedroom is to our back, the kitchen entrance and half bath (behind the closed door and too small to photograph

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Remember my ABC Wednesday's "G Week" post back in August that featured this photo and caption?A display window in a store two doors down from our hotelin wonderful Old Town Ft Collins, CO this June.That empty chair had held the smallest of the three Goats,and Gosh he was cute, instantly winning my Capricorn heart.But he sold before I could even Grab a photo of him!So G is also for Glum, Grumbling

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I like to tidy up loose ends as an old year wraps up, so here are a few recent photographic and anecdotal stragglers I haven't had time to post but wanted to share before we find ourselves in 2012, distracted with trying to remember to write the new year on our checks. :-)My Merry Muffin MisadventureFirst is the story of my biggest kitchen debacle ever (not that I have many, honest!) As you know

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I'm sorry I've kept you standing outside of Dragonfly Cottage for so long. I'd fully intended to invite you all in on Christmas Eve, but the week before I was laid low by a vile and virulent virus. Or maybe it was a badass bacterium. Whatever it was, I went to bed feeling just fine the night of the 16th only to wake up the morning of the 17th with a fever, sore throat, and the stuffiest head in

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I'm sure by now I'm on Santa's Wayward Blogger list (Which is Way Worse than being on his regular Naughty List, you know), having Wistfully Wandered away from the Land of Blogs for nearly two Weeks. I fear I've been Whelmed (over and over) and Wretchedly under the Weather. And While neither of those conditions has Waned yet, I don't Want to miss a third Week in a row of ABC Wednesday. So I'm

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The Cold Moon, that's what December's full moon was called by the Celts and the Algonquin. But it goes by many names ~ in Colonial America it was called the Christmas Moon, to the Chinese it's the Bitter Moon, to the Cherokee the Snow Moon, Neo-Pagans the Long Night Moon, the Medieval English the Oak Moon. No matter what it's called, the nearly-full waxing moon, which will be officially full

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I've had a lot of interruptions and distractions lately ('tis the season), and am tardy with my 4th and final 2011 quilt show post. So without further delay, here are some of the non-quilt fiber arts that were on display along with the quilts:I love lace and admire people with tatting skills...Tatted Money Insert CardsTechnique: TattingArtist: Victoria Bales"I give money to grandchildren for

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Happy Friday and Happy December, everyone! (Wow, the time - she flies!) And speaking flying, here are some of our neighborhood pigeons that I photographed during my snow day walkabout last month. I'd taken a couple of photos of them all lined up on the wire and then felt compelled to take one more, and the third time was definitely the charm since that's when one of them decided he had important

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I'll be the first to admit, the quality of this batch of photos ~ shot in low light without a tripod with my point-and-shoot Kodak EasyShare (someday I'll take time to teach myself how to use the manual settings, honest!) ~ isn't terrific. But what they lack in quality they make up for in quantity! :-) I had no trouble taking photos to share for this week's ABC Wednesday post, thanks mostly to

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As so often happens, I had entirely different sky photos ready for this week's SkyWatch Friday when at almost the last minute, along came an even better sky to eclipse them (no pun intended!) ;-) This was our sunrise yesterday...I love bare tree branches silhouetted against beautiful sunrises and sunsets, so at least Thanksgiving Day (my least favorite holiday) dawned with a happy dose of

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I didn't want to wait to post the photos I took during my Snowy Saunter after our big Storm last week, but it didn't escape my attention that I was Squandering a perfect opportunity to have Something to Share for this week's ABC Wednesday "S" post! So I Saved a few additional photos for it. They're not just pictures of Snow, they're pictures of Snow on Sculptures! Bonus points! :-)While not

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This will be the final batch of quilts, as my final post in this series will feature other fiber arts from the library exhibit. But for now... yet more quilts! :-)"Quilts for Sale" by Diane Phelan Shared here with the artist's kind permissionThis time we'll explore the quilts displayed on other side of the library's mezzanine...Once again, let's look at some of them in detail, beginning with this

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Well, our big winter storm moved out about a day early (sorry, Midwest friends, it appears to be headed for you now!), but it stayed long enough to significantly drop both snow and the temperatures (it was -3ºF with winds gusting to 25mph this morning!) The cold isn't pretty but the snow is, so I got several photos of the local scenery yesterday morning during a winter wonderland walkabout. (And

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As promised in the snowy photos section of my last post, here are more photos of our skies as a front moved in late Monday afternoon, changing our weather from sunny temps in the mid-60ºs to 10ºF and snow. While the weather was still nice (though breezy) that afternoon, I took our dog Willow and climbed a neighboring hill whose summit offers dramatic views of the skies and the Big Horn Mountains

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I've been wanting to share these photos I took of some beautiful Roses blooming at Trail End, a historic mansion (now a museum) near our house in late October (Roses, in northern Wyoming in late October! That's Really Rare!), and now that it's R week at ABC Wednesday, and the Roses are finally gone till next year, I thought a Requiem for Roses might be an appropriate post today...A Red, Red RoseI

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Yay, more quilts! :-) Picking up where we left off in Part 1, we'll continue around the library mezzanine from left to right. Click on any photo for a larger version, and feel free to name your favorite(s) from this group in the comments!... In the far left corner of the back wall is this sweet quilt, which won my instant affection since I'm always drawn to all the variations of the "Flying

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I took this photo of a stunning sunrise over Saddle Butte from my mom's front yard in north central Montana ("Big Sky Country") on Nov 3... (This SOOC photo is completely unedited) For more skies, big and otherwise, visit... Happy Veteran's Day to my fellow vets!And may everyone enjoy a peaceful and auspicious 11-11-11!

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How fortuitous that our public library would host its annual Quilt show shortly before ABC Wednesday's letter Q week! :-) As many of you may remember from my two-part post about last year's show, our local Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library hosts an annual quilt exhibit throughout the month of October, when its mezzanine transforms into a dazzling rainbow of colors, textures and talent

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Fear not, I come bearing only treats ~ some Halloweenie pictures and music to share with you! :-)Here's a closeup of Willow's "costume." I tried to get photos of Tess and Josie in their Halloween bandanas, but they were being temperamental divas and wouldn't cooperate enough for a good photo, so Willow gets to be a solo act again...I took this photo last year, but never got a chance to post it.

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This post is particularly photo-intensive, as I've gathered a bunch of Autumn scenes shot on four recent walkabouts in our neighborhood. This is my favorite time of year, and with all the exploring and new things to see after moving to town last month, I've gone completely camera-crazy. (Okay. Crazier). :-)Not all of the photos feature sky, but most do. Despite this being a SkyWatch post, I just

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Oh Okay, maybe O for Orange right before the big October holiday isn't too Original. Oh, well - in my Optimistic Opinion, Odds are you won't Object to Observing One more little festive Orgy of Orange... I found this antique orange bottle, decorated with a glittery spider's web and little puffball spider, at a recent gathering of local artisans called "Born in a Barn" at the farm home of one

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Before I post photos of Dragonfly Cottage's interior, local explorations or this year's quilt show, I wanted to share some closeups I've been taking of the flowers in the wildflower garden right in front of our cottage. Although it's one of the common areas for this new Pocket Neighborhood, it stands in for our front yard. Because Dragonfly Cottage has no front yard - just some mostly nekkid (so

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As if moving weren't hard enough, look at the temperatures we had to do it in! Had to have set a record. Brrrr... And in September, no less. But check out this rugged soul, wearing just shorts and a tshirt in those brutal temps... LOL - I noticed this sign immediately when we'd stopped at WalMart on our way to the cottage early one morning, and was glad I had my camera with me so I could get

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I've missed you, dear blog readers (and dear blog!), and am happy to be able to carve out some time to share some news and pictures at last ~ and get my blogging muscles back in shape! We finally got a contract on our house in mid-August, and got busy trying to find a place in town and start packing, while going through all the inspections -- home, radon, well and well water, plus appraisal -

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As I walked from my car to the grocery store a couple of weeks ago, I looked up and saw this huge and ominous storm moving in fast overhead and obliterating the beautiful blue sky that had been there just moments before. Instead of scuttling into the store for shelter from what promised to be a humdinger of a storm, devoted little SkyWatching blogger that I am I ran back to my car to grab my

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I almost had to Ignore ABC Wednesday this week. It's been nearly Impossible to find time for good I photos (or any photos) while Intensively Involved in moving (I Intend to share a more Informative post on that Issue when time permits). But skipping It was Inconceivable and nearly Inexcusable despite Infinite Interruptions (Including an Injury*) and Immense Insanity. I contemplated posting a

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As a follow-on to my Sunflowers post for last week's SkyWatch Friday, here are some more scenes from an early morning hike along that same gravel pit road last month.Temps that week were in the upper 90's, so we headed out early hoping (in vain, as it turned out) to beat the heat. At least we were treated to an interesting sunrise, courtesy of smoke from a host of fires in MT, ID and WY, and

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Though I Had more High Hopes for this post than I Had time to make Happen, I'd Hate to Have to skip H week for ABC Wednesday. Happily, I'd taken this photo of the Horses on Sunday and the ones of the Hayfield three weeks ago, on my way Home from town. How Handy! Horses grazing in the gloaming. (Where were you guys last week when I needed Gs?!) Hayfield on a Hot afternoon Taking the requisite "

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I'm having to shoehorn this SkyWatch Friday post into a crazy day, but I couldn't bear to miss it because I've really been wanting to share these beautiful wild sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) that I photographed during BW's vacation last week. They grow in great profusion all along a dirt road that climbs up to a couple of gravel pits, on property that is part of the ginormous ranch where we

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It's ABC Wednesday once again and Gee, we're at G already?! Then for your Gratification, may I present: Garden Goats & Geraniums... A display window in a store two doors down from our hotel in wonderful Old Town Ft Collins, CO this June.That empty chair had held the smallest of the three Goats, and Gosh he was cute, instantly winning my Capricorn heart. But he sold before I could even Grab a

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YAY!!! Makes me wish I were a college freshman again! (Well, almost!) :-)

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(Tess, our fun-loving rescued Chow-Aussie mix, has commandeered my post for this week's SkyWatch Friday because she thinks these photos of her, cruising oh-so-cooly in her Doggles, showcase the summer sky quite nicely. And since I can't argue, I've agreed to type this for her while she dictates)... Hi, human peoples, I'm Tess! My favorite cruising song is Adventure Dog, but I reckon it might

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Thursday Challenge: Blue Though not a Blue Moon, this just-past-full moon I spied early one morning recently was so pretty against the deep blue of the late summer sky that I had to grab my camera. My point-and-shoot has difficulty taking well-focused photos of the moon, but I like this capture nonetheless... How about a little music to go with it? Here's "Blue" from Leann Rimes' album of the

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It's Fortunate that I'd Finished most of today's ABC Wednesday post last week when I'd had the time or I'd be MIA this round, unless I just posted a photo of real estate For sale signs (selling and trying to Find a new house is giving us Fits!), or a self-portrait of BW and me for Frazzled, Flummoxed, Frustrated, Flustered, Fatigued, Fretful and Fried (and a Famous F word that's even more

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For this week's SkyWatch Friday, I give you a month of summer sunrises ~ all taken from our house on the side of a Wyoming mountain ~ along with some inspiring quotes and three pieces of lovely music from which to choose to enhance your viewing pleasure. :-) (It may take a few seconds for the songs to load, but I think they all provide a nice accompaniment to the photos and quotes)... Create a

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This week's Thursday Challenge is FRIENDS (Gatherings, Parties, Time Together, Sharing,...) Friends come in all shapes, sizes, colors, creeds, and species! Here are some photos of friends, a couple from my archives and most fresh off my camera... Some friends really stick their necks out, while others can act a bit snooty at times... Jane Doe and Willow hang out on our front porch Other friends

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Yep, we're all Ears for another ABC Wednesday! :-) Another lurker bunny in our yard Precocious Baby PJ on our patio A delightful donkey Eager to make friends Tex(She's CEO of the ranch where we board Mocha!) ;-) Ani, my friend Robyn's Engaging grand-dog Which pair of Endearing, Enchanting Ears did you Enjoy most? It's "All About Eee" at this week's

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As the Dog Days wind down, I realize it's been a dog's age since I did my last food/recipe post. Here's why.. 1. I'm an uninspired cook in the summer. I'd rather be out in the sunshine, am busy with outdoor projects, and prefer to avoid heating up the joint with stove and/or oven. Autumn will likely find me eagerly poring over my accumulated recipes and cookbooks and hugging my estranged kitchen

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TGIF! Not only because I'm happy to see a very trying week come to an end, but because it means it's SkyWatch Friday again! And I couldn't wait to share these sky photos with you. On Tuesday night I had to pick BW up at work so we could get our Jeep from the mechanic. A big storm was moving in fast from the north and as we were on the Interstate heading to the mechanic's shop, a rip opened up

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Just as I was starting to think the Thursday Challenge wasn't terribly challenging, up pops this week's prompt... EMPTY (House, Room, Playground, Glass, Container, Chair,...) I'm afraid the past several days have been too hectic for me to be very creative, or to keep my eyes peeled for artistic tableaus of empty chairs or containers. My first thought was to photograph an empty beer glass with

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Welcome to another ABC Wednesday, featuring this week's letter, Delightful D. D is for Dormers... Four of the dormers on the historic Sheridan Inn, opened in 1893 and known as "The House of 69 Gables." The Sheridan Inn, Sheridan's first solar-powered hotel,is undergoing renovations to become an active inn again. And D is for Dancing! "The Dance" by James Muir(For more detailed photos of this

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After doing a lot more blogging than usual lately, real life has finally caught up to me with a vengeance and now I'm back to having to squeeze it in when I can. We had a house showing this morning and have another on Wednesday, a Jeep (my main mode of transport and dog-hauler) that needs to go to the mechanic before its engine falls out since "possible missing and/or busted motor mounts" does

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(Click photos for more detailed images)Western Salsify (Tragopogon dubius) in our pastureWith a yellow budding Salsify flower to its left and fragrant wild Bergamot at its base, this Western Salsify will soon release its large dandelion-type seeds to drift across the summer sky on mountain breezes.Wildflower seed on the sand and stoneMay the four winds blow you safely home...Wildflower seed on

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I was delighted to see this week's Thursday Challenge prompt, which provides a great opportunity to share a few photos of pretty flower gardens in Sheridan that I've taken this summer, some from our two favorite gardens in the US that I plucked from last year's Maine vacation archives, and one I just took yesterday of a cute little somebunny visiting our veggie garden! Another example of plucking

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Wow, ABC Wednesday, back already! Let's C what Clever Concepts we Can Come up with this week. ;-)Well for starters, C is for Camera, and I've been having a jolly time with mine this summer! So here are a few recent Captures (except for the hummingbird, I fetched that one from my archives) that I hope you'll find Charming...C is for Childhood ~"Twist in Time" by James HaireSculpture on South Main

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So here's the buzz. Mere hours after I published my "B for Bergamot" post for ABC Wednesday, BW and I took the dogs for a hike. I, of course, took my camera, on account of you just never know. And this time while we were amongst the fields of blooming bergamot, we were joined by a big, fuzzy bumblebee. I've tried and tried in years past to get a single good photo of a bee on a wildflower, to no

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Soar into the weekend on the thermals of Wyoming's summer skies above the Big Horn Mountains, accompanied, if you wish, by Brian Crain's beautiful song Dream of Flying...Music Playlist at MixPod.comClick the photos for larger versions...Paragliders often ride the thermals above our house (at 5500'), since there's a popular launch point above us.Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the

Laloofahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07256023593175821427noreply@blogger.com22Big Horn, WY 82801, USA44.6780556 -106.9788889000000244.6618381 -106.99889040000002 44.694273100000004 -106.95888740000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-566012853802645275.post-28576253388109308442011-07-28T06:03:00.004-06:002011-08-04T23:05:45.466-06:00

While Sheridan certainly isn't suffering from a shortage of perpetual and annoying road construction or the insanely frenzied building of hundreds of new houses (have they not heard about the glut of unsold homes on the market - ours included?!), I felt uninspired by this week's Thursday Challenge:"CONSTRUCTION" (Business, Residential, Street, Bridge, Sidewalk, Lego Bricks,...)Until, that is, I

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I thought I'd try another fun weekly meme that I've enjoyed on several blogs - ABC Wednesday. A new round began last week, but no way could I get it together in time to jump in at the beginning with the letter A. So I'll Begin with the next Best thing, the letter B! :-)Because a Bounty of Blooming Bergamot currently abounds around our place, I photographed a Bunch during a hike earlier this week.

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We've been celebrating the dog days of summer with some fun purchases for our canine kids, Tess and Josie, that go along nicely with two of their favorite activities (besides eating) that we've been enjoying a lot this spring and summer... walks and car rides. Especially walks, as they need practice walking (in a civilized fashion) on leashes in town.Our hikes at home are off-leash, of course,

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We routinely get spectacular sunrises, but perhaps because we're perched on the eastern slope of the mountains, such sunsets are uncommon. Tuesday night's post-thunderstorm skies were an exceptional exception, though, and a no-brainer for this week's SkyWatch Friday submission! I took these from our front porch as we enjoyed the brilliantly blazing sky until dark...I just kept taking photos as

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When I saw that this week's Thursday Challenge theme was going to be Yellow, I was tickled pink. So to speak. :-) Because there has been yellow in great profusion in my world lately, so I've been photographing it like a mad woman and now have a perfect excuse to share several of the results. (Because let's face it, I don't have the discipline to choose just one photo for these things!) ;-)As

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One of my quieter neighbors enjoys her breakfast in our yard, illuminated by the lovely early morning light...At first I thought the tree leaves interfered with my photo,but then I decided they add an interesting dimension.The grass has been so tall and thick after all our spring rains that it has hidden the fawns well and I have seen very few of them this year. And only once did I have my camera

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Last Friday and Saturday, my friend Robyn and I (together with a few other people, including our former co-worker Vonnie and her husband Kelly) had a huge yard sale at Robyn's house. It was, I think, our fourth one and our biggest yet. Robyn's always generous about hosting them - she lives in a great neighborhood for it, her husband Jess works at an elementary school and furnishes us with

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We've been having a lot of stormy weather in our area during the month of July, so for this week's SkyWatch Friday I wanted to share some of my recent stormy sky photos. Along with a little classic Lena Horne to help set the mood!... Potential storm clouds boiling up over the mountains in mid-morning...Taken from our back deck looking west toward the Big HornsBy late afternoon and evening, the

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I don't usually take photos of vehicles but just lately I've accumulated quite a stash, starting with half a post's worth from our Colorado vacation last month and ending with some I took over the 4th of July weekend. As I was pondering the best way to share these latest photos, this week's Thursday Challenge rode to the rescue with the theme (what else?): Vehicles!Every 4th of July or

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Welcome to post #7, the final in a series featuring some of the sights and sounds from a recent vacation in Fort Collins and Boulder, CO...There's no shortage of artwork or live entertainment in Fort Collins' Old Town or Boulder's Pearl Street Mall! For our vacation post finale, here are just a few samples of some of the A&E we enjoyed...A pretty painted pony adds a splash of vivid color to the

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I should be finishing my final Colorado post, but my blogging buddy Barbara always does such wonderfully fun and creative posts for the Thursday Challenge that when I saw this week's theme, I had to play along. I love photos of country lanes that wind their way into the unseen distance, disappearing around curves and into our imaginations.I took these in Big Horn on my way home from town on

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Welcome to post #6 in a series featuring some of the sights and sounds from a recent vacation in Fort Collins and Boulder, CO.There's just one more Colorado post after this one, so I think it's time we refuel before our final leg! We spent our second-to-last day in Boulder and decided to try a new place for lunch. Not just new to us, but truly new - it just opened in January. Zudaka, a discovery

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We've enjoyed such a wet, cool spring and early summer - wearing jackets in the mornings and evenings (and at times during the days), needing to run the pellet stove at times to take the chill off, still sleeping under blankets - the majority of days have been quite pleasant, and the landscape so green and lush. Of course we knew it couldn't last, but didn't think it would change so drastically

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Welcome to post #5 in a series featuring some of the sights and sounds from a recent vacation in Fort Collins and Boulder, CO.Fort Collins and Boulder both abound with a blooming abundance of flowers. Here is just a small but colorful sampling...A radiant rose blooms beside The Armstrong's parking lot.This is a SOOC pic, and its perfume was as vivid as its color.All over Old Town were enormous

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While we're on the subject of critters, here's a video filmed by a camera-snatching seagull cinematographer...Apparently there is some debate over whether this video and its story - that the seagull stole the guy's GoPro camera in Cannes, France and deposited it on the castle wall, where the camera's owner had to climb to retrieve it - is real or faked. Well maybe I'm gullible (*snork*), but I

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Welcome to post #4 in a series featuring some of the sights and sounds from a recent vacation in Fort Collins and Boulder, CO!I don't mind telling you that this is my favorite of the Colorado posts and I have a feeling it'll be a favorite for several of you, too! :-)Fort Collins and Boulder are both very dog-friendly towns (according to one local business owner we met, Boulder has more dogs than

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Welcome to post #3 in a series featuring some of the sights and sounds from a recent vacation in Fort Collins and Boulder, CO!I don't know about you, but all that strolling and biking and gawking and photographing has worked up a hearty appetite (and a pretty good thirst, too!), so I think it's time for some nosh! Fortunately, delicious vegan eats and treats abound in Fort Collins (and Boulder,

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Welcome to post #2 in a series featuring some of the sights and sounds from a recent vacation in Fort Collins and Boulder, CO!Here are a few of the more unusual, fun and colorful ways people get around in Fort Collins...Fort Collins is a very bike-friendly, bike-loving town where bikes and bike racks (some designed to look like artful sculptures) are ubiquitous, there are multiple bike shops and

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I promise I'm working on the next Colorado trip post, honest! (You guys crack me up, it's like you're in the back seat of the car whining, "Are we there yet? How much farther?" LOL) But I wanted to share a quick post of this pretty local scene first.On my way home from town Wednesday, I pulled over to take a photo of these pretty poppies and handsome barn on the Gallatin Ranch in Big Horn...And

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Welcome to post #1 in a series featuring some of the sights and sounds from a recent vacation in Fort Collins and Boulder, CO!Getting my Colorado posts done has been a slow and much-interrupted process, but I decided I simply must buckle down and get them finished soon because not only have I been eager to share them, other share-worthy photos I've been taking lately are piling up!I'm doing this

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I realize that in many parts of the country (and rest of the northern hemisphere), it seems late for a "signs of spring" post, even though official summer is still a couple of weeks away. But around these parts, it still looks and feels very much like spring, even early spring - still raining (a lot!), often still cold (low 30's yesterday morning and our pellet stove ran during the day), and only

Laloofahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07256023593175821427noreply@blogger.com10Wyoming, USA44.793531079938184 -106.9519046718750142.78795207993819 -110.45422667187502 46.79911007993818 -103.449582671875tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-566012853802645275.post-11107749341681759812011-06-03T05:46:00.003-06:002011-06-03T20:58:28.778-06:00

First things first. The chocolate! I made this insanely rich, gooey, crunchy, über-chocolatey dessert the other day when it was cold and raining, and it didn't last beyond the next morning. It's actually a testament to our self-control that it made it into the second day at all! It's not only delicious, it's ridiculously easy, vegan and contains no added fats. We've eaten it warm (okay, scalding

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Our Memorial Day holiday started out foggy, cold and rainy, which made it no different than nearly every other day in May! But at least it also started out with a visit from the adorable baby bunny who lives under our front deck..."Mmmm, grass for breakfast! Nom-nom-nom."Inspired by our nibbling bunny friend, we got an early start planning our main meal of the day. Given the cozy weather we

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I'm behind on replying to all your fun comments and intend to remedy that asap, but didn't think you'd mind if first I post these photos I took yesterday! :-)I had to go to town again yesterday since I couldn't squeeze all my errands and appointments into Wednesday alone, so I took my camera along to document some beautiful sights of spring I'd seen the day before for an upcoming post. But my

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...whither shall I wander?So what do you do on a chilly, blustery, gray Saturday when you have to vacate your house for a showing and have already made all the trips to town you can stand? Well, if you were me last weekend, you'd go to a tranquil pond a couple miles down the road where a lovely Canada Geese couple is raising a fluffy flock of adorable fuzzballs and play paparazzi for a fun while!

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OMG, it's alive! And it remembers (though just barely) how to blog! :-) I can't tell you how much I appreciate your patience, understanding and supportive comments, though I wouldn't blame any of you if you stopped being my followers! After all, I don't seem to be going anywhere, so what's to follow? :-) But thank you for sticking with me so far anyway. As Daphne astutely observed in her

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Boy, it sure didn't take long for my blogging muscles to atrophy! It's "only" been about three weeks since my last post, but it feels like years and I'm staggering around Blogger trying to remember where the light switches are. Mercy. Anyway, I don't have enough time to write much but did want to send a quick status report from the trenches. Finally finished the spring cleaning (yay!) and got

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I can't believe it's April - that has to be a prank! (Bet my New England friends must think so too, looking out their windows today!)I've often enjoyed the lighthearted silliness of April Fool's Day. The first April Fool's prank I remember pulling was around the age of nine, getting up before my parents (a trick in itself), and making footprint cutouts from black construction paper that I then

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This reminds me we have window screens to replace,but not because of naughty kitties. Grasshoppers chewed holes in them last year!This is just a quick post to prove, to myself as much as to anyone else, that I haven't fallen off the planet. I've been feeling so badly about abandoning my blog (and blogging community), but there's been little I could do about it. I'll write more about what's been

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Do not be daunted by the world's grief.Do justly, now.Love mercy, now.Walk humbly, now.You are not obligated to complete the work,but neither are you free to abandon it.~The TalmudI was in town all day today, so when I got home I got online to catch up on the news and happened to see this poignant news clip tucked away at the bottom of the latest, mostly grim headlines from Japan. Since I

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Today being 3.14, it's known in math circles (← geometry pun) as "Pi Day." Now, I don't run in math circles (I just run in circles while trying to do math, which is a horse of an entirely different color), but while continuing my spring cleaning this morning I caught a story on NPR's Morning Edition about this musician, John Michael Blake, who decided to celebrate Pi Day by setting ∏ to music.

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So many of this week's events, both global and closer to home, have left me feeling saddened, dazed and schlumpy.What's "schlumpy" you may ask? Well, in using it to describe how I feel, I'd define it as, "fretful, drained, dispirited, vexed, and listless." Easier to just say "I feel schlumpy."But it can also be used to describe a physical posture or attitude, and used this way it has a much more

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Random hodgepodge indeed... in the following post may I present some scrumptious soup, vegan values (the $ kind), an appreciated award and some bodacious blogs! But first, a brief (no, really!) update...As of yesterday our pellet stove is fixed and income taxes filed (BW is a rock star), and as of today the new beadboard ceilings and trim are installed at last. So now I'm in the throes of

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Well I dunno boutchoo, but I'm rather glad to see this week come to an end! Though not all bad, it's had more than its fair share of trials and tribulations and thus has required more than its fair share of comfort food.Like Banana-Date-Walnut muffins! Here's my prescription:Take one a day, preferably first thing in the morning, with a hot beverage of your choice (ours is Teeccino Organic Maya

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ROAD TRIP!Okay, well, not for real - just pretend. But I've been really wanting neeeeeding one lately. When lo, my friend Molly (who was bitten by the same travel bug as I), shared a fun post yesterday featuring a map of all the states she and her husband Mike have traveled through and/or visited together. She shared a link to the map so we could build our own. It's fun and quick, and you can

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Thank you to everyone for your well-wishes for Josie, who had her second bladder surgery on Tuesday. She did great and was very happy to come home yesterday, bringing a chow-hound appetite with her (she normally is a rather dainty, bird-like eater but she's been putting away the groceries like an NFL lineman since she got home!)Here she is earlier today, enjoying some lovin's from BW in front of

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Ack, really? It's been a week since my last post? Dang.We've been experiencing "two seasons in two days" craziness again, this time going from sunny and upper 50's for much of last week through Friday, to awakening Saturday to a winter storm warning, snow and temps near minus 20º again, which lasted all weekend. It's not the snow and cold I mind so much, it's the volatile weather swings. They

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I ♡ U, Willow and Tessa, looking so lovely in your fetching Valentine bandanas...Does Willow have an expressive face, or what?And I ♡ the fun additions my friend Jahara made to this photo after I sent it to her...(And of course I ♡ U too, Josie, even though you refused to, in your words, "suffer the indignity" of wearing a pink heart-festooned bandana for a Valentine's Day photo!) ;-)I also ♡

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Today's post is made possible by inspiration from some fellow bloggers!First, this beautiful dripping icicle photo by my friend Sue inspired my own attempt to capture something similar when I noticed a row of icicles hanging from our eaves earlier this week. These were my two best attempts, and as usual I couldn't decide which one I liked best - icicle with or icicle without falling snow glop, so

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Our various dogs and resident deer have always enjoyed a harmonious relationship. We've sometimes jokingly called our place "Almosta Ranch," but I think I'll change that to "Ahimsa Ranch!" :-) Here are some very recent photos of Punky and the girls on the patio. Punky hangs out there frequently because she knows it provides a good chance to cajole treats out of me, and the girls go out there in

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As promised in a previous post, here's a sweet treat of tea and scones...We had vegan oatmeal cinnamon scones during our stay at the Elm Cottage B&B in Searsport, ME last summer, and our hostess Janet shared her recipe for them. (I've also found an almost identical recipe on this and a couple of other web sites, but its original author remains unknown). The recipe originally called for 1/2 cup of

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Happy Chinese New Year!~ Welcome to the Year of the Rabbit ~Said to be more tranquil than the tumultuous Year of the Tiger we just left behind, this Rabbit Year is predicted to be a year of refinement and taste that will make it good for the arts and culture, while its peaceful, congenial qualities should make it a good year for relationships and world diplomacy (let us hope!)While Chinese

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I love to explore new and different places, but traveling is usually difficult for a variety of reasons (not the least of which is our six critters), so most of my traveling these days is of the "armchair" variety. I visit places vicariously, through travel blogs and web sites, DVDs, books... and Google Maps. Whether I'm inspired by a place I read about or by the far-off location of a blog

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We experienced two seasons this weekend. With sunshine and temps around 40ºF, it was spring on Saturday; with freezing fog, snow and a high of 5º, it was winter on Sunday. Such extreme and sudden changes in weather and temps aren't that unusual here, so one must always be prepared with changes of clothing and changes of menus! Saturday's temps called for Green Smoothies, the first recipe we've

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I'd considered it, but honestly didn't plan to write a post about the 25th anniversary of the tragic explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, figuring it would be all over the news and probably on plenty of blogs as well. And it is. But BW got today off (yay!) and was listening to NPR this morning while I was off doing other things, and while we were hiking with the dogs a little while ago he

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I found this video a while back but for the life of me I can't remember where. An ad for the Los Angeles Animal Services Adopt-A-Pet program, I thought it was cute, clever and ~ just like adopting a homeless furbaby from a shelter or rescue organization ~ definitely super cool! :-)(The poem bit especially cracked me up!)Speaking of shelters and rescue organizations, here are two super cool things

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My massage therapist, May, almost always plays the lush, beautiful recordings of Marina Raye while she performs her massage, reflexology and Reiki magic on me. The combination of her therapeutic techniques and the deeply relaxing sound of Marina's music is sheer bliss.Marina, who was born in The Congo and has studied music since childhood, plays beautiful five-holed Native style flutes made by

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For several weeks I've been trying to remember to take my camera with me when I go to town to run my weekly errands, hoping for an opportunity to photograph the Bald Eagles who sometimes hang out in a big, dead cottonwood in the middle of a large field about three miles from our house. Whenever I saw an eagle, I'd forgotten my camera; whenever I remembered my camera, I'd see no eagle. Until this

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Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.~Saint Benedict I've had this post in the works since last summer when I found a wonderful A.A. Milne quote about listening to animals. I knew I wanted to build a post around it, and got most of it done but never got around to finishing it. (I have several posts like that, I'm afraid!) But this morning as I was doing the dishes, I heard on the radio

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You can just call me "Jane" Henry, because I'll die with a paintbrush in my hand, lord, lord... (say, once you get past the intro, that's a nice rockin' bluegrass cover by The Boss! Think I'll listen to it while I type the rest of this. And yes please, Bruce, even though it's still morning I believe I'll have that beer!) :-) Okay, so remember our freshly painted living room and bookcase full of

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