F-F-F-F-F-F Friday

Fucking floral, frustratingly freaksome financials,  Fenomenal (work with me here) friends Friday.
Ain’t nothing blooming outside, so I jump to the favorites in my archives to make ME happy, to remind me that in times of barren and brown, blooms will come.   Yeah, things are scary right now, and although I know things will be fine [...]

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Photo F-F-Friday: It’s ALLLLIIIIIVE!

Maybe I am slightly exaggerating the momentousness of the arrival of actual green, sprouty things, but after a winter I thought would never end, I rejoiced this afternoon when I snapped this:

And on the other side of the path, some that might even bloom…

Renewal, rebirth – the enrgy of Spring is infectious.  Energized, I spent [...]

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Photo F-F-F- Friday: Intervention Edition

Today dawned bleak and grey. As I sit here in my study, my protogarden – my pile of seed packets glare at me; they want, they yearn to get outside into some dirt and start their transformation from dessicated pellet to thriving plant. They will not understand that nothing outside is ready to [...]

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Ecclesiastical Floss

I snapped this last evening as my daughters’ music tutor came up the back steps into my kitchen.  I took a LOT of art history in University and often this sort of cloud formation would be accompanied by cherubim and zaftig naked women strumming implausible musical instruments while their less attractive naked bits were concealed [...]

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F-F-L-F-Ph-F-F- Friday

Finally Folding letters and mailing Freaking holiday Photos Fucking Floral Friday.
Sometime, life gets in the way of enthusiastic plans – even plans that follow longstanding (like, 14 years)traditions.  I am actually beginning to hear from people who are wondering why I’ve neglected them.  I’ll admit , some of it was the mid-December altercation with [...]

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Photo F-F-Friday: Deep Winter

From where I sit, there is nothing to see out my window but shadow-streaked expanses of white, broken up with the odd dried seedpod on slim stalks.  I wanted to see some color, so I dragged this out of July, 2006.
It’s actually seed-buying time and it won’t be long until the ones I want will [...]

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F-F-Friday: Friends and Family

Behold the flowering post-Chanukah cactus!  This week is all about this floral and my knee-related frustration.
We’ve had our friend Leeba visiting from Montreal since Tuesday night.  She is the sort of guest that isn’t a guest – she fits right in and is as low maintenance as anyone could want in somebody else rattling around [...]

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Anniversary F-F-Friday

That’s fabulously floral Friday!  See me holding a bouquet?

Fifteen years ago today, my husband and I stood on a bimah under a chupah in Montreal  and exchanged vows and rings. To each other we said the traditional Hebrew vows of  Ani L’dodi, veh Dodi Li,” or I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.
Last [...]

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Photo F-Friday:

I bring you art by Boo.  This is about to properly framed and hung up on our dining-room wall.  Yeah, it’s been sitting there, silently accusing me of neglect since I placed it there to take care of oh, I don’t know, 6 months ago?
This past Tuesday Boo had her first voice lesson and we [...]

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Photo F-Friday… almost time to dive into the archives

Now that we’re into November here in New England, we’re seeing perhaps the last gasp of foliage and flowers.  What do you think, Seester, is it time to haul out the archives to sustain us over the winter? Methinks so, given the dearth of the floral fabulousness around now…
First, this is what it looks like [...]

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