Monthly Archives: February 2016

Dear Reader: I love Emily Dickinson’s works but I think I would change one word in this quote….from door to window. “Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every window.” Sunday morning I was up early and had … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: It just so happened that the timing was perfect yesterday morning to capture the sun’s first rays hitting the yard and the garden. It was breath-taking. The word that kept coming to mind to describe this early morning … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: It was Henry David Thoreau  who said: “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” No truer words were ever spoken. After my cousins left Thursday to return home, I returned to Simple to Sublime … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Marcia and Susan physically left yesterday but I can still feel their spirit and presence within my home. We let decades go by without seeing each other and yet we took up each other’s thoughts and sentences as … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Over the past two days Marcia, Susan, and I have had time to start peeling back the layers of past events in our lives to reveal what connects us as cousins….the blood-line of similar values. We shared lots … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I love picket fences!  As you know I have a white moon gate and two white picket fences in the garden. Confederate jasmine grows on the fences and moon flowers grow on the gate. I am in heaven … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: When I was going through the mail Sunday catching up from being gone last week….here was this wonderful thank you card from Gin-g. Gin-g’s birthday was January 31 and Honey’s is coming up on the fifth of March … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Late yesterday afternoon I got a burst of energy and began picking up fallen limbs, sticks, and pine cones (of which there were many) from the front, side, and back yards. It was warm, but not too hot, … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Don’t we all just need to get away some times?  This home sign on a neighbor’s house at Pawley’s summed it up perfectly: Changes in Latitudes; Changes in Attitudes. It always takes us about one day to really … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Nothing is more exciting than leaving on a trip except when it’s time to come home. Home is truly where the heart is. The beach mid-winter retreat was everything we hoped for and even more…like the weather it … Continue reading →