Took my first trip to Harriman Park since the leaves are fully out, and although cloudy and overcast, I walked up the old Silver Mine ski hill and had lunch atop the hill, looking out at the forest and the budding blueberry bushes nearby within the understory ( Read more... )

I stopped at McDonald's on the way to the grocery store to grab a late lunch snack, and as per my usual went through the drive-through window and parked in the parking lot, with my window open, hanging out and thinking and eating.

I started with my fries and was staring ahead when I heard this fluttering right outside my driver-side window! A ( Read more... )

Lo and behold, Kat has finished her freshman year!  Time sure flies ( Read more... )

There is about one week every Spring when I can go into my backyard in the early evening and smell the lilac bushes in bloom.

Tonight is such a night!  When I went to move the cars, as I got out of the one parked in back, I smelled the lilac scent in the soft Spring air, and all seemed right....  :)

Almost time to head back to NY from our vacation in Nice, France, which has been wonderful ( Read more... )

Just starting to wrap my mind around the fact that Sally, Lizzy and I will be flying to France this coming Thursday night, to spend 10 days in Nice!

Went to AAA today with Sally and we both got our International Driving Permits!  That lent some reality to it!  :)

...and I don't mean a monitor like this!


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Kat was home for the weekend, and I just dropped her off at the "Chinatown bus" down in Chinatown for her ride back to school.  The fare is only $20 each way to Baltimore, which is so very reasonable ( Read more... )

Lizzy woke up with a sore throat, stuffy noise, and did not feel great, but she went to her Viola Club's Spring recital, and pulled through and played very well!  Her nose ran while in the midst of her solo piece, but she did not let that stop her ( Read more... )

Gwen, our anxiety cat, just loves it when Lizzy sits down at the dining room table, cracks open a book and starts doing her homework ( Read more... )