Music and Cats

Last week, I found Make-a-Flake through a link at SB’s lovely site Watermark. Take one architect with a love of pattern, and one web-based version of a childhood activity much loved, but long forgotten (one that folds the “paper” for you, and allows you to undo any “cut” that you decide you don’t like!). Fold […]

“We can’t sense space without light, and we can’t understand light without shadow and shade, which are different from each other. Shadow is the ghost of an object; shade, the absence of light, offers us refuge from the overzealous sun.”– Donlyn Lyndon and Charles W. Moore, Chambers for a Memory Palace
In the gloom of many […]

The first sign that I had that today would be a beautiful - other than the local infotainment that calls itself the weather forecast - was the light on the huge old cherry tree in my neighbor’s back yard.

Yesterday I received a package in the mail from my friend Cowtown Pattie. Pattie and I are both native Texans; unlike me, she is still a resident of the Lone Star State. However, Pattie maintains that, while you can take the girl out of Texas, you can’t take Texas out of the girl.
(I’d have […]

I had finished making the cranberry orange cherry and almond conserve. Paul had gone out shopping, so I had the house to myself. I should rephrase; I was the only human in the house, and, as the cats were napping, the only creature stirring. I’d dragged some Christmas decorations up from the basement, and was […]