-Loved being in the passenger seat tonight while Steve drove home through the rain and wet leaves.





-Loved being in the passenger seat tonight while Steve drove home through the rain and wet leaves.







My friend Roberta Hatcher’s poetry Book Release Party. French Lessons published by Finishing Line Press
Roberta made all the food and brought it over before the party (Delicious) and after the reading there were her homemade MadeleinesJulia Child’s Madeleines recipe -lemon, orange and chocolate and her homemade truffles. Friends and other Pittsburgh poets came, bringing wine and their willingness to have a great time!P
Here’s a poem from her book and previously published in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Thank You for Crawling
I provided the venue.
She read beautifully and everyone had a wonderful time. Congratulations Roberta.
hope you will sign my copy soon
Labriola’s Italian Grocery
Pratt Museum Homer Alaska
and thinking about the idiomatic phrase horse of another color


Jen H at WordPress has created the weekly Photo Challenge: Local.
What feels familiar, home. The places you know by heart. Local diner, local playground, local neighborhood, local church,local streets-I live in the city by a park.
I notice I shoot a lot of local coffee, too.
Here’s my iPhone local gallery. Pittsburgh.



























I enjoyed this week’s challenge by Lignum Draco Water






Gallery of water in Washington for the H2O challenge
The first photo is Dry Falls you can barely see the kayakers, ant size.


Omak Lake
Glacial lake


Chief Joseph Dam near Bridgeport WA

Irrigation of apple orchard in Eastern Washington, Brewster.
My sister- in-law at wet waterfalls (will have to ask her the name )
