I recently perused NPR’s list of best books from 2024, sorting by the tag “Seriously Great Writing”. I put a handful on hold at the library and have been reading them as they come in. I really liked this one, set mostly in Georgia (Europe). Time to put a few more on hold!
We spent Christmas night in Ocean Beach, San Diego. This was the view from my morning coffee spot.
Big, blue, and beautiful.
“Merry” — a word we only bring out of the word closet at this time of the year. Why is that? I think I’ll start wishing my friends “merry birthday” and see how that goes.
Merry Everything to you!
I’ve nearly completed the second year of weekly entries in my perpetual journal. Loving this project 😊
I thought I knew the eucalypts on our block! I went out to observe and record the rate of fruit (gumnut) drop, and to my surprise learned that adjacent trees are actually different in significant ways.
This process, and learnings, delighted me … and engendered even more questions, to be explored in the future.
My lovely neighbour gives me one of these every December. When checking how to spell ‘amaryllis’ I learned that it’s actually in the genus Hippeastrum. Learn something new every day!
I’m pretty sure these were scarlet buglers (Penstemon centranthifolius) in great profusion in the northern part of Cheeseboro Canyon. We’ll have to go back in spring to be sure.
What motivates some people to take spray paint to a site of awesome natural beauty? I will never understand how that can feel good. I thought this part of the cave looked like a sad or angry face frowning down on the graffiti.
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