Melted Snowdrops

Melted snowdrops on the Nandina sp. yesterday. The leaves turn red when freezing temperatures arrive.

Happy New Year 2015!

Sunday Dinner

Organic turkey, roasted root vegetable salad, stuffing, and the crescent rolls I cannot eat turkey without. Desert not pictured: chocolate silk pie. Wine: Middle Sister moscato.

O Tannenbaum

2014 version, better late than never.

Buzzwords

Buzzwords for life:

"authentic humility and reckless generosity"

Timothy Shriver, the chairman of the Special Olympics, author of, “Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most."

Philosphy Thursday: On Doubt

""The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." ("The Triumph of Stupidity" "Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935)

Summer Flowers

We have had a lot of recent rain, thanks to the disintegration of two tropical storms over the desert, and so suddenly all of our summer plants are having a second burst of flowers.