August offers pleasures aplenty— It is the loveliness of little things that gives LIFE to living! I cherish the little things: our end-of-summer garden; planning a new autumn look for the living room - then shopping for comfortable new chairs to complete it; lunching with a friend and pouring out my honest emotions - knowing… Continue reading pleasures
It's August. Can Autumn be far behind? Days are getting shorter. Evening shadows are long across the lane by six o'clock. Golden oak leaves are piling up in drifts along the fence line. The meadow across the creek is dry and dead, with heat shimmers floating up toward the afternoon sky. Occasionally a fast moving… Continue reading August
It's amazing the changes a week away can bring about in a high summer California garden. So we spent this morning reclaiming the fort. D mowed the grass. It was TALL ! And thick! Kai Li checked out all of the places Will and Sugar had been as they cared for the plants. She's not… Continue reading late July garden
Foggy early...with highs in the 60s! Compared to 100° this is heaven. Too cold and damp for tramping the beach. So, off to the donut shop. Coffee and donuts are...coffee and donuts, except at Dolly's Donuts in Morro Bay. Here coffee and donuts are an experience! One that will take up most of a foggy… Continue reading foggy donuts
New Reading... The Eternal Word 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1 (New King James Version "You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing."–Anonymous 'I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.'~Daphne… Continue reading chronologically
The serenity of a day spent by the sea dictates our activities. If it is fair and fine we'll clamber down to the beach at low tide and walk a long way up the coast, gathering treasure as we go. A summer squall can blow in as quickly as the tides change and the wisps… Continue reading serenity by the sea
Oh summer! It's so-o-o-o hot here in The Valley. In Summer we long to be near the restless sea. So we're on our way to the coast! Albert Einstein once said, "Logic will get you from A to B. But imagination will take you anywhere." So, we're going to the coast—in our imagination—and you're invited… Continue reading summer by the sea
Contentment Cottage 