Sunsets in Aruba 2009

Vermont's beauty

Die Hards!

On the beach after Labor Day!
It was a beautiful, clear day at Bristol Beach in Falmouth.......you can run your toes through the sand in September.

Falmouth

One of my recipes to ponder

Just to ponder.................


As we go through life we meet people that we trust and love.
At first it is our parents.
They love us unconditionally and will guide us on our journey to adulthood.
They are responsible for forming and shaping us into the people that we will become.
Not to be just like them or have the same family life that they had but to have our childhood be a wonderful experience that someday we will look back upon with a smile that just slides across our face.
Many choices will face us. If we have been equipped with the skills to make mature decisions and have been guided with a structured hand we will make the correct choices throughout life. If a child is not nurtured in the direction of self confidence and success they will never feel the confidence in themselves to succeed.

Sidewalks of Dublin

Candids of the locals.






A young Italian boy singing in the streets of Dublin.

The sidewalks of Dublin are full of wonderful, interesting people. Musicans, young girls on a shopping trip, flower ladies and the locals gathered around the statue of James Joyce.

40 Wonderful Years

To mark 40 wonderful years with Tiger, I thought that I would post a few poems that have meaning to us.
Love you Tiger.....still after all these years.......

My Love For You
Such innocent love so young so new,
Tender and gentle while I was with you

We grew and love deepened with each passing year,
Holding me close, pulling me near.

Now as our lives are slower and gray,
I love you the same, that old tender way.

The following poem is so true, and I am lucky enough to never have lost my first love.

First Love
The sweetness of first love will always be on your lips.
Even as the days pass and his form becomes a shadow, the taste will remain.
Never will it be so sweet.
Others will brush your life and some will brighten your days but in your heart one remains,
never to be replaced.

Nolan and Chloe

Do you think we can spring this joint?

Spring's Wonder

A simple walk with two of the wonderful men in my life, Tiger and Nolan, brought such beauty.
Right before our eyes the certainty of Spring was apparent.
We are now longing for warm summer days and cool ocean breezes.

March...in like a lion, hopefully out like a lamb

March in Falmouth was a very wintry experience. Lonely seagulls wishing for the discards of sun worshipers and not the bite of snow on their feathers as they search for nourishment.

Ward's Dump Truck

Memories of ocean breezes and laughing children fill my thoughts with warmth as I sit upon an icy deck, the freeze of winter to carry.

Little Christmas

Waiting for Little Christmas.

The Island Queen

The Island Queen is still hanging onto her holiday dressings!

Snow Touched Beach

A cold, crisp chill filled the air on a deserted Falmouth beach this January, 2009 weekend.
The mocha colored sand mixed with newly fallen snow gave the appearance of spilled latte all over the shore.

Only a few ghosts of last summer lingered in the frigid ocean.

This boat seems to be waiting for the thaw and the sandy feet climbing aboard to hark the beginning of another warm, wonderful summer!