Budapest Breakfast

Wayne has meetings all day, so we rose early and enjoyed a leisurely breakfast overlooking the river.  

Budapest Beautiful at Night

The Danube River and the bridges are lit up so beautifully at night. This is the view from our hotel. We ate a late supper looking out the window at the Parliament and the Chain Bridge. Lousy photo of the Parliament building from across the river. Still, I love the ethereal quality and sense of an…

Rainy Budapest!

We had the kind of flight that is perfect–uneventful! We were so tired from the past few weeks of business and “giving out,” we arrived extra exhausted. I will take a “collapse” day and may not even get out of our hotel room. My husband does not have that privilege. It was raining when we…

On the Road Again

Chain Bridge in Budapest My husband and I leave today for Europe. We will be in Hungary and  Germany, possibly France. I will be taking photos and journaling as we go. Budapest is especially beautiful with the Danube River dividing the city, Buda on one side and Pest on the other… See you on the…

Out of the Left Lane…

Sweetly broke the dawn this morning on Possum Kingdom Lake. A group of friends met at the lake house of mutual friends. We just got away for a day, spent the night on the lake, enjoyed a day together, reminiscing, visiting, catching up, laughing, telling stories on each other, and laughing some more. We spent a leisurely morning…

haiku: irony

prickly thistle thrives in the desert place, swathed in purple like a king

A Love Story

Today is our 25th anniversary, so I thought a love story would be in order… A 55 pound tortoise who lives in the zoo in Jerusalem, Israel, is paraplegic, that is her hind legs don’t move. But recently custom fit with a skateboard, Aravat isn’t staying home anymore. Now she ventures out all the time and has attracted a…

Pitter-Patter

This guy still makes my heart go pitter-patter. Next week we will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. Yes, we had a hot August wedding in Texas. And here it is again, 25 years later, still hot. So we are heading a little north for a respite from the heat. I wanted to go to Italy or…

When the Tanks Roll into Russia Again…

Fox News made this announcement about the Russian military invasion of Georgia on August 8, 2008. And here we are few days later, and the war is escalating. Read this story. In the American Thinker on August 5th, Putin has described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the “greatest geopolitical catastraphe in the 20th century.” Will the former Soviet…

The Ghost of You and The Ghost of Me, Celebrating a Birthday…

Dear reader, Gently, you come and go. I feel you everyday when I connect. I know you have been here. I feel you here. I notice that you have read certain posts and have ignored others; some you have read over and over.  Sometimes you leave a comment, a referrer line, or the wisp of a click. Sometimes…