I am a lousy photographer, don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t stop me from taking photographs all the time. Similarly, I’m a lousy singer, but it doesn’t stop me from singing at the top of my lungs. A friend of mine took calligraphy for many years and sucked at it, but I still enjoyed getting her wobbly handwritten notes, and she loved doing it and admitted she was bad at it. See it doesn’t really…
It has been so dry here in New Orleans that the worms curled up and died right beside the garden. Even the rosemary was looking peaked. So out of the blue it started raining tonight and there was a welcome relief felt palpably in the air. Hopefully it will dust off the trees and fences and give us a little bit of clean fresh air for tomorrow.
News just in: A federal judge ordered the government on Tuesday to stop enforcing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, ending the military’s 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops.
I woke a little bit on the late side this morning but had to walk the dogs because I realized that if I don’t walk Loca she is crazy (and that is not redundant), and that because of her I get my walk and I’m therefore not crazy. So we went for our long walk through the park and saw Great Egrets, Tricolored Herons, two Cormorants up in the tree, ducks galore and three white…
Last Christmas I took a photo of Tin and I dressed up in Santa outfits. I sent one to a client and friend of mine and he said, “You have the same smile.” A couple of months ago, I took a photograph of Tin sitting on the front porch eating raisins and a friend wrote, “He looks like both of you.” It’s amazing what you see when you are looking. I was sitting a long…
A couple of days ago out of the blue, Tin started trying to hurl himself down the stairs. T noticed it and told me about it, but I hadn’t seen it up close and personal. It’s odd because he has been such a careful boy, learning so fast how to go up and down the stairs either on his bottom or holding on to someone’s hand. Suddenly he is standing at the top of the…
This morning a fine white fog pervaded City Park and cast an eerie glow over it. It is perfect for the upcoming Halloween holiday or maybe its a pall cast more from the Saints’ loss yesterday. Someone said there was some bad voodoo on the team and that the devil was in our backyard laughing at us. I ran into a fellow morning walker and he speculated it was all about gambling and I said…
So today is 10-10-10 and according to someone I met today, it is a transformative date – interesting, because the day started with me making French toast and watching this woman doing a headstand on her kayak go by on the bayou: As we ate our tasty breakfast, Blekica climbed into the money tree and started to shake, rattle and roll: And then T and I quickly divided and conquered. T took the dogs around…
We’ve been off of the comfortable sleeping schedule for Tin. His early to bed was disrupted the other day when we had friends over for T’s cake on Thursday night – and he went to bed at 9 but didn’t fall asleep until 11. Since then his nap and nighttime rhythm has been thrown off. Yesterday instead of his usual three to four hour afternoon nap, he slept for an hour and then when we…
We’ve gotten into a rut lately, one in which we barely have time for the friends we have, and barely any time for ourselves, but we flung the doors open on Saturday morning and invited over a couple with a child – a similar set up to what we are – and afterwards, we thought wow, that was nice. New friends, cute little boy. It was interesting to see our lives mirrored by others who…