Upside Ann

  FYI - Things are going to be getting busy here and the blog will likely, once again, be un-Anned.  See you sporadically until August.

 2025 - post sitting for a photo....

  Monument Rocks was SO MUCH FUN.  It is on private property in Western Kansas and requires driving on dirt roads with a boatload of dirt and dust trailing you and covering everything about and in your car.  But the roads are easily traversed even with a little Ford Fusion.  We got there early in the morning and had the place to ourselves. 2025

 Monument Rocks, July 2025  My shoes were new.  Didn't really look that way after.

Going to take on love of home for a few Fridays. There were days back in Brisbane when I'd sing this song and miss my home in Carolina.  This performance not only honors Carolina, but is filmed at Blossom Music.  Cleveland.  Another of my favorite places.

You might have thought that I would have heard this - our beloved crabapple tree ripping itself in two - or being torn apart by some force super- or some-other natural - but it came as a great surprise when I went out on Tuesday to find an enormous and outwardly healthy limb lying across the backyard and peeking into my bedroom window. Obviously, it wasn't inwardly healthy.  Still, unlike a significant portion of its brethren, it still had a full leaf complement and tiny crabapples (crabapplettes?) Gosh.  Another of my mother's tree companions.  I remember watching my grandparents planting this tree when our home was new.   I'm going to have to find someone to take the entire tree down soon.  I'm not ready to face that today.   In honor of her beauty - I'm sharing photos I've taken over the last 8 years here on Harrison.  Spring, Fall, Winter.   As viewed from my mother's room upstairs.  Her canopy of flowers filled the courtya...