It poured freezing rain all last night. By morning, the streets were a slippery disaster. I decided that walking… um… sliding to church was not happening so I stayed home and called it a “lull day.” It was a day to crochet and read and cook. Outside, the landscape looked frozen and not very attractive. The […]

On January 27th, I went to a wellness fair, sponsored by Grand Island’s small businesses. It was a delightful event, and I wrote about it early in February. Here is a link to that post: all about the wellness fair Every one of the exhibitors at the wellness fair had a prize that could be won.

Joy is defined as a feeling of great pleasure and happiness. People find happiness in one another.  I see human faces as a very likely place to find beauty. When I’m feeling sad, I feel much better if I see someone’s smile. So, today, I found an online editor, and I made these collages of

Last Wednesday, the winds howled. As I looked out the window, I could see uprooted trees, trees fallen on electrical lines, broken garbage cans lying in ditches, roof shingles on lawns and in the street, and the list goes on.  Doesn’t that seem like an unlikely setting in which to find beauty? I thought so,

Last week, I heard an interesting historical presentation by John Montague of the Buffalo Maritime Center. So… you’re probably wondering what this has to do with finding beauty in likely or unlikely places. Well… this is a little more abstract, maybe. I would say that finding beauty in history may be finding beauty in an

Sunday is a “day off” in the Blogging from A through Z challenge, but not in the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. Because of that, I have decided to share comments from the previous week’s blog posts on Sundays.  The letters for this week were A through G (edible art through geese). Here are your comments, with

People often complain about geese. They are described as being aggressive, territorial, and messy.  They are considered to be annoying. People use all sorts of techniques to keep Canada geese off of their property, including stringing wire to keep the geese away from their ponds. They can also replace much of the grass in their

It started snowing yesterday afternoon. The enormous flakes fell on flowers and creeks and on not-very-green grass. Today, the rain came and the snow followed, and it was kind of a wet, miserable day.  The ground was soft and a bit water logged from all of the rain and snow that has fallen in the

My father loved elephants and he loved elephant sculptures. He collected sculptures of various sizes and colors, and he displayed them on the mantelpiece in the family room. The elephants on the mantelpiece offer me a happy memory of my dad. They are beautiful objects in a place where beauty might be unlikely: a room

The wind blew hard all day. It caused trees to fall over onto cars, streets, electrical wires, and houses. It caused shingles to fly off of roofs and furniture on porches to tip over. I’ve been taking care of a dog, and the wind scared the dog.  On a stormy day, everything looks dismal. The