They were cherry tomatoes and they looked especially good in the afternoon sunlight. I was walking my dog and one of my neighbors has a garden that abuts the street. The tomatoes were on the curb which is city property and I pay my taxes;...
The bees on the aster were side by side like morning coffee drinkers at a local diner. Slowly they were tanking up for the trip back to the hive. Just as the diner benefits from the morning customers so the asters benefit from the visit...
As we near the end of the year catalogs have started appearing in the mail. One that arrived today is filled with ridiculously expensive items. One of which is a manual typewriter for 200 dollars. While I have not recently been to our Salvation Army...
Because our bedroom windows face the rising sun, the room can get extremely bright at five in the morning during the summer. Thus we have light blocking shades. No light pierces that barrier but it does slice through the cracks between the edges of the...
It all started days ago when I thoughtlessly put the mayonnaise jar back in the fridge with the lid unscrewed. It finished today when I lifted the jar out of the fridge holding only the lid. Fortunately the jar was plastic and not glass, but...
All of a sudden this afternoon I really wanted an apple turnover. I have no idea from where this came. I was driving, not by apple trees, not by a bakery, and soon I found myself swinging into a supermarket parking lot. I am puzzled...
Before taking my car for its annual state inspection today, I looked in the glove box for the registration. They will not inspect the car without it and it wasn’t there. Thus began the search. I looked and looked throughout the car and house to...
The evening’s news was headlined by the horror of the terrorist attack in the mall in Nairobi. One of the women who escaped reported that “Bullets were flying everywhere. God saved me.” Sixty-five plus people were killed. Obviously God did not save them. This supposed fickleness...
Our local high school band practices outside on October evenings. The traditional band sounds float up our hill. Even from a distance I can hear them getting better and better each night. When they start I can’t identify any particular song but after a couple...
I am a creature of habit. Almost every morning I have a bowl of cereal. So you can imagine my consternation this morning to discover we were milkless. I opened the fridge only to discover an empty shelf. How can one possibly eat cereal without...