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Category Archives: The Boys
Five Photos, Five Stories #1
A fellow Virginia blogger, Suzi, has invited me to participate in the Five Photos, Five Stories challenge described thusly: I am to post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, The Boys
Tagged animal rescue, beggar's lice, virginia stickseed, west highland white terrier, westies
108 Comments
Life’s Little Luxuries
Little sister and I were hiking on Sunday when conversation, in between huffing and puffing, turned as it sometimes does to things apropos of nothing at all. Mary brought up the subject of indulgences, the little luxuries that help make life … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Random Ruminations, The Boys
Tagged chinese foot massage, coffee, little sisters, luxuries, taiwan, west highland white terrier, westies
138 Comments
Thank You
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. Caleb C. Colton Many thanks to each and every one of you who has reached out to me since Berkley’s death. Please … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, The Boys
Tagged aster, chrysanthemum, death of a pet, fall garden, Garden, mexican bush sage, pink sheffield, west highland white terrier, westies, will's wonderful
55 Comments
My Fragile Circle
“We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we would still live no other way.” Irving … Continue reading
Posted in The Boys
Tagged death of a pet, irving townsend, west highland white terrier, westies
46 Comments
Shady Ladies (and Max)
For some of us, surely, the serenity of shade gardening—as the counterpart of sun gardening, with its festive mood—is just what the inner doctor orders.” – George Schenk in The Complete Shade Gardener If anything ever happens to this … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, The Boys
Tagged caladium, concrete menagerie, dicentra, fern, heuchera, hosta, Japanese Painted fern, lady's mantle, mahonia, polemonium, shade garden, tiarella, west highland white terrier, westies
74 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Nighttime
Nighttime is a subject better left to real photographers with real cameras. One of these days, I want to try my hand at working with an actual camera and lenses. In the meantime, and strictly in a sense of fun, I … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, The Boys
Tagged camping, postaday, sunset, weekly challenge, west highland white terrier, westies
53 Comments
Flying First Class
Earlier this year, I posted about the first of my Personal Principles – Try Kindness First. I do mean to get to the other nine one of these days. And you may remember the Tennessee Seven. One of those seven rescued Westies got … Continue reading
Posted in Random Ruminations, The Boys
Tagged animal rescue, Personal Principles, travel, west highland white terriers, westies
43 Comments
I Wish Westies Were Ugly
Or at least not so darn cute. Maybe so many of them wouldn’t end up in rescue if they looked like this: And I wish ad agencies would stop choosing the Westie as their adorable pitch-pup for whatever brand … Continue reading
Posted in The Boys
Tagged animal abuse, rescue groups, west highland white terrier, westies
55 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Between
Between. Capture something in the middle of two things. It can be a person or object, or simply the space in between. I was gardening on the opposite side of the house when I heard ferocious growling and excited barking. The … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, The Boys
Tagged concrete menagerie, postaday, weekly challenge, west highland white terrier, westies
63 Comments