Music and Cats

Did this photo make you yawn, too?
If your Friday is one big yawn, visiting the animals on the Friday Ark should perk you right up. There’s never a dull moment at Blog d’Elisson, where Elisson hosts the Carnival of the Cats on Sunday.

It’s summertime in Seattle. Any other year, I would be spending hours each weekend - and most likely some weeknights as well - turning whatever fruits and vegetables were at their ripest that week into jams, pickles and chutneys.
This is not any other year. This summer, I have no kitchen. We’ve turned our dining room […]

Seven days ago, our nephews Max and Reed arrived. They were entranced by the view of our sleeping volcano.
Six days ago, they went to the aquarium while I met with our kitchen contractor. They petted sea anemones and starfish. Next stop, our neighborhood park, where the boys splashed around in the wading pool. Max […]

What is the fascination that little boys have with sticking out their tongues? It seems that every other photo that I snap of Max or Reed features a protruding tongue, accompanied by some sort of grimace or funny face. It’s not that they wander around with their tongues hanging out (as Lyra sometimes does); rather […]

Lyra seems pensive. Is she thinking deep thoughts about the state of the world today?