Reflection

As sky and leaf appear in water's surface,so mother sparkles through daughter.

Spots of Red

Amid the browning of winter, these spots of red.

A Niece's Heart

Eatherley's heart
grows,
blooms,
brightens a room:
an arrangement
of her own making.

The Show Must Go On!

An Asheville outing: puppets and Aesop, blasts of Arctic air, The Laughing Seed, a photo op on Wall Street, Woolworth Walk, and ice cream. (Adeline's good taste in clothes extends to her taste in ice cream: bubblegum with chocolate.) Home again, the men of the family hang homemade Christmas lights, glowing like the two little monkeys who waited patiently for lunch and loved looking at the art. What delightful companions the Schultzes make -- any day!

Hiking Attire

Adeline has style.

She selected this fashionable ensemble for a wintry outing, earning the praise of a passing hiker who said, "The perfect outfit for the day!"Who could argue with that assessment?

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving after dinner served late in the day: a walk in fallow fields under lowering sky leaning mountain ridge -- dogs and children and extended adult relations wandered among loufas drying on chicken wire, blue tail feathers caught in dried grass, treed chickens. How lovely it is to live on the verge of yard and farm.

Bugs

My favorite car was a blue (later yellow) 1967 VW bug. Even when the sunroof leaked and I could begin to see asphalt under my left foot, I loved that little car. It amused me.

This one does too.

At the rental place this morning, I noticed it and assumed someone inside was driving it. I asked. "You want it? It's yours!" Tristan said. It's going to storm tomorrow as I wend my way to Brevard, but the trip will be a little easier. I will be driving a bug!