I have now taken the plunge to add music to a blog I started back in mid-March. It is called Chytha's ResonanceIt is a place where I post about the importance of authentic faith influencing all of life, including politics. That is different from religion and politics which should never mix ( Read more... )

I realized I had more growing outside and took some more pics. The tulips are starting to bloom and the hostas are sticking their litte "heads" out of the winter mulch, It's so fun to see them come up purple and then unfurl their green leaves. The ferns are beginning to stretch up their frond-beginnings, and the muscari have arrived.
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I just downloaded some pics from my cell phone and trimmed out the dark and dull ones. Found that I had taken quite a few of the snow. But I have some nice garden pics - some turned out quite well, and some not so, but all in all the phone cam seems to work okay in a pinch - never seem to have the "real" camera handy :)
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We had a partly sunny day yesterday so I was able to do some garden work. It's not that I am adverse to doing stuff in the rain but some things are easier to do when it's dry - like mowing the front and back yard!:) The electric mower makes it so much easier - 20 minutes or so for both front and back and no hassles like I had with the old gas ( Read more... )

I wrote this years ago,just found it again today, seems appropriate to share at this season ( Read more... )

I did just my second plant buy yesterday. I bought some violas,snapdragons, pansies, and marigolds--then had to hustle myself out of the garden section at Freddies so I wouldn't go overboard. They had loads of pretty flowers of all sorts and it was hard to limit myself. I love the spring colors -always my favorite season. I now have to plant them, ( Read more... )

Finally got some more work done in the garden. The rain held off today and I was able to redo part of the rock garden -clear out about half the grass that has invaded over time. I made the mistake of not completely killing it when I used turf squares to form the base of the rock garden space. I was creating a long planting bed along the sidewalk, ( Read more... )

As I may have posted before, I am not looking for a miracle worker...that job is already taken. Nor am I expecting Obama to be perfect - I know he is not, like the rest of us. But what I am looking for and admiring is a change from the last 8 years of fear-mongering, divisive direction from someone who apparently was told that he (Bush) could do ( Read more... )

Spring is coming - the first of my crocuses have bloomed, and I spotted a couple irises showing their colors (purple) too. The tulips and muscari (grape hyacinth) have leaves up but no flower or stalk yet. That doesn't guarantee we won't have any more snow (had a 1/4 inch last week), but at least there are more colors (besides brown dirt, green ( Read more... )

My favorite Mariner is coming home. Just got the confirmation that Ken Griffey Jr, is coming back to Seattle. For a few days it seemed he might be going somewhere else, but in the end he came back to where he got his start at 19. Nobody has the same sweet swing at the plate, and though he probably can't do as well in the outfield as in his earlier ( Read more... )