A Blog for 2025

November 8, 2026 I want to learn to watercolor like this.  I sat up there on the hillside, looking out at the Berkshires, awestruck.  I slept well last night.  The best thing about the kidney operation is how much it effected my sleep.  I do not get up as much as i use to, and in spite of the amount I miss my bedroom, it is wonderful not to climb the stairs three times a night.   I cleaned out another box today. I didn't find homes for everything and I'm still stuck in the not enough space dilemma, but I found a few things I needed.   Somehow I damaged my memory card and I can't find my silver box full of used memory cards, nor do I see my box of zip drives, although I know they must be very near.  But the outcome is that I only had my phone  on my sunset drive.  They all look like watercolors.  I want to do them all as watercolors. Fascinating watching tonight, the colors were so bright and pure and it looked like a red ocean ...

November 7, 2026 Go over to LAVA and see the show.   It is not as big as it has been over the last few years, but its quite smart looking.     I didn't do a very good job of photographing the show today.  I only had my phone on me and was only thinking about taking shots to show Di and EJ, so I didn't get ones on the other side of the wall from mine. The painting is Charlie's and the 2 photos are mine.  I love Charlie's, I actually love several pieces on the wall.   There were a few new artists in the show who were at the Opening and they got to meet each other.    My original idea in 2020  to do a community show was to bring local artists together and to give people who don't have opportunities to show a wall.  I also wanted to grow a covenant of artists, like we were growing a collection of actors.  The past artists didn't get notice this year, but I think we can include them some other way. Unfortunately, someone h...

November 6, 2026 I'm going to try and map out today's weather pattern.  This was only one small portion of the sky at sundown.  It was raining and very foggy, but to the west the clouds parted just long enough. I sat in the fog for a  while this afternoon.  It looked like waves across the canal.  I could see no birds, but I could hear some.  There were robins in the woods.   By 4:15 it started to clear a little in the North and I decided to go down to the river.  The whole experience was of fog and  light.  The rainbow is so hard to see in this shot.  I did not get a good one.  I was driving through the center of Turners just as it was happening.  By the time I got somewhere to park, the angle was wrong, but the river was beautiful. It also was that moment when it's too dark to take a picture, but too beautiful not to try.  All cameras work differently in this light, too.  It was raining, It was clearing, th...

1/21/23 November 5, 2026 This is how I feel tonight.  I do see the beauty in it, but  I also have a headache. I actually got several things done today and with any luck began to fix the 3 necessary issues holding me back.  I started fuel assistance procedures, I got in contact with McGovern's office and I think I came to the conclusion that I need to get a new stove and buy it over time.   That doesn't seem like a lot, but it was.  I also saw Jan and spent time with Clara.  I don't know what else, but my day did not include taking photographs or writing.  So I am not prepared, once again for my blog.   The year is beginning to wind down and I'm beginning to think again about creating a website.   I'm also trying to decide on how to approach healing the pain in my leg.  Isn't that how this year began?  And it ended out being highjacked by kidney failure?  Now I'm back to awful arthritis in my lower back and down m...

November 4, 2026 Congrats on this day.  It is important to take stock and admit a win, but not to think its the whole battle.  There is tons of work to be done.  Still, yay! Yesterday was kind of a crazy day.  The poles were so full; we had to wait for a space in the parking lot and we had to wait in line for our ballots.  It was exciting to see all those people out there doing their duty.  Definitely gave me a boost.  Jo and i went to see Wicke r in the evening to distract ourselves and get us away from media.  Wicker was great.  It was so nicely done and very beautiful to watch.  It was advertised as a romantic comedy, which I would not have labeled it, but it was gently romantic.  I'm really glad we went. Then I got home and did a couple things and went to bed with a book.  Midnight I awoke and realized I'd never done my blog, that I had not taken any photos except one "I voted" shot. What a morning to wake up to.  I g...

November 2, 2026 Life on the farm. I had a very active weekend and I woke up this morning feeling almost back to normal.  And if it weren't for the severe pain in my right leg, I would say I'm in pretty good health, but by 1 I needed to sleep.  I took a long nap. I woke up because people were looking for me, which was a good thing because I would have slept through the entire afternoon.  Once again I got nothing done that I needed to get done.  So frustrating. Someone smashed Clara's car in front of LAVA today.  Really sucks.  It's just not easy to be carless in Franklin County, as I well know.  Hopefully, the insurance companies with get on it quickly. This was the first time I've seen Beth's turkeys.  I've heard a lot of stories about them, but here they are.  They are quite beautiful.   The ride was lovely this afternoon.  It was over 60 and sunny and the colors are really tipping into November.  I killed more mosquitoe...