Old Fashioned Pulley Clothesline from July 2011

A Throwback Thursday post

My friend Joan passed in 2023 but this is her old fashioned pulley clothesline (with a bag to hold the pins). The original post telling of the birthday dinner she made for me – Her clothesline jumped out at me and I thought of sheets hung on the line and how quickly things dry in the summer. The refreshing scent of the sunshine.

The same type of lilies in the 2011 post, the ones I photographed blooming in her garden, are opening up fully in my dining room this week in my birthday flowers bouquet

Remembering two artists, both now deceased

Photographed in 2015
Chiz Gallery Shadyside

Wordless Wednesday

Birthday Flowers

24 hours later the lily opened
36 hours

Filling the Sugar Bowl

Do you keep a sugar bowl?

A friend was coming for coffee today and she enjoys a bit of sweetness in her coffee.I was filling my old Fostoria sugar bowl from my maternal grandmother as it doesn’t have a lid .

I drink my coffee black these days and although I love coffee ice cream I don’t add sugar to my hot coffee.

So close, colorful and loud!

Thanks for a happy Fourth of July celebration Debbie and Sy.

Holding your mom’s special happy birthday plate and then I had a slice of cake on it. Thank you. Photo by Deb’s dear friend Michelle
Lisa and her medley of roasted vegetables
What a party.

74 on 7/4

Click to see this card shoot fireworks 28 second video with sound and lights

Thanks Gloria & Jeff for this bday card that’s alive
From Laura at the Columbus Metropolitan Library
Rear view
My knitting friend GS made the beaded ornament. The braided wreath I stitched years ago but it’s missing the bow to cover the connecting seam.
Photo by Shanti. I’m wearing a friend’s (GB)
knitted shawl

My SIL James Joins Couch Week

You’ve heard of Shark Week. Well it’s been Couch Week in Columbus and Pittsburgh.

Pool Couch

Love when the family thinks of me. You know all this abandoned furniture has stories we’ll never hear.

Something You Don’t See Everyday

Wednesday morning we were at the Kamin Science Center on the North Shore. Shanti saw the grasshoppers in the terrarium and said “he’s getting a piggy back ride.”

Eastern Lubber Grasshoppers are toxic to predators

Hiding in the Very Eric Carle Exhibit at the Children’s Museum

Shanti and I had a great day at the Children’s Museum on the Northside.

At the Children’s Museum Very Eric Carle

In case you couldn’t find her in the grass
Making colorful Butterfly wings

Finding a firefly

City Reflection

Seen as we headed to the parking garage after Charlie’s play.

So many lines and shapes.

Downtown Columbus, Ohio