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Some Favorite Things

Some Favorite Things

Today I need to write something positive, just cuz.  So, here’s a blog post about some random ‘favorites’ of mine…with certain follow-ups. First up: Favorite Colors Yes, kindergarten is over thirty years behind me, and yet I am still going to tell you about my favorite colors.  I really, really like colors, okay?  …Which means I can’t possibly have a favorite.  But some colors I adore are: So, what’s more wonderful than gorgeous colors?  Gorgeous color-combinations.  A single, flat color…

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MT Mountain Wildflowers

MT Mountain Wildflowers

This post is mostly just going to be pretty pictures.  This summer, we went on an overnight backpacking trip with my dad in the Bitterroot mountains in Montana, on the trail up toward Glen Lake.  My dad remembered the trail as very forested, but since he’d been there last, wildfire had gone through and taken out nearly all the trees.  So, instead of a shady forest, we had a very sunny trip, with lots and lots of wildflowers.

fly-by-posting: 2024/06/27 (w/pic)

fly-by-posting: 2024/06/27 (w/pic)

In honor of the season of cotton-flying-everywhere, here is a picture I took a month ago. Because it was only a month ago that I realized that this town I’ve been living in for 20 years has trees that bloom with lots of pretty white flowers (that sort of look like cotton fluff, but are not cotton fluff, because they’re pretty flowers).

Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 1

Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 1

These stories are all apropos of nothing.  I offer them merely for the sort of entertainment one gains from truly random things. 1.1  How I learned coincidences that span the globe are just like other coincidences. So, it happened like this.  It was my senior year of college, and someone in my belly-dance class had invited me to tag along to a hafla, which is just Arabic for ‘party’ and was pretty much just a group of other college students…

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Goose footprints lightly on top of snow
Ode to Geese Feet

Ode to Geese Feet

Okay, so the building I work in is right by a pond, and the result is that there are a lot of Canada geese around, especially this time of year. The result of that is that I am not a fan of geese. They are messy, loud, threatening creatures, who like to walk down the road in front of your car at 1/2 a mile per hour. If I, occasionally, admit to any sort of a soft spot for them,…

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