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Tag Archives: Family
Drifting
This morning I decided to tackle some of the worst of the weeds in front of The Urban Porch. Although I’m not all that worried about neighborhood appearances (when you live across the street from a hoarder, everything looks better … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Daeja's Garden, Gardening, Memories, nature, Perspective, Photography, Seasons, senior musings, summer, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather, Wildlife
Tagged aquarium, beach, Childhood, cicada killer, cloud formations, clouds, communing with the octopus, drifting through life, Family, Flowers, how to dry overalls, July flowers, lake, late summer blooms, mesmerizing jellyfish, noisy overall buckles, ocean, octopus, overalls in the dryer, spacey
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Two Springs
Today I think I am mostly going to fill the page with visuals. Spring has truly sprung. My family are East Coast-West Coast people. At times all of us have been living in the East. Other times all have been … Continue reading
Posted in Daeja's Garden, Gardening, nature, Perspective, Photography, Seasons, senior musings, Spring, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, Travel, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather, Wildlife, Wow!
Tagged bi-coastal family, blooms, east coast, exploding spring, Family, family visit, Flowers, northern california, spring flowers, spring photos, spring twice, super blooms, upstate new york, west coast
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Looking for Bessie
“Her name was Bessie”. That’s the only thing my father told me about his paternal grandmother, and that was only after I asked him about my great-grandparents. He mentioned there were a couple of uncles, both of which disappeared “I … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Bucket List, Daeja's Garden, Mushrooms, nature, Perspective, Photography, senior musings, summer, Travel, treasures, Uncategorized, Wow!
Tagged aging, all points led here, ancestry, connections, familia, Family, finding your roots, genealogy, Memories, mushroom capital, orchid room, recording family history, relatives
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Water
Repeatedly throughout the day, I move from the air conditioned space that has provided relief from the heat and step out onto The Urban Porch ™ in order to leave the chill and be enveloped in the warm, bathwater density … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Flashback, nature, Perspective, Seasons, senior musings, summer, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather
Tagged August, beauty, end of summer, Family, heat, humidity, July, Memories, nature, observations, Rain, rituals, Summer, urban porch
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A Golden Squirrel
My sister Charlotte always had squirrel-like attributes. As a child, she tended to hoard her things. As an adult, even in the leanest of times, she managed to save, to “squirrel away a little something” for the future. Looking at … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Uncategorized
Tagged Christmas, christmas ornaments, Christmas tree, Family, Memories, Memorium, Sisters, Suster
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The Holiday Visitors
The Holidays are upon us and the visiting has begun. This year, along with their significant others and the grandbabes, both of my children insisted upon bringing their dogs home for Thanksgiving . It was sort of chaotic, but they … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged big dog little dog, dachshund cross, dogs, Family, holiday guests, kitchen companions, new age, pets, rescue dogs
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Flags For My Father
The scarves are kept in an apothecary type chest of small drawers. There are probably over thirty of them, an accumulation over about as many years. They are from all over the world and many of them have been passed on, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged cleaning up, clearing out, collecting, drawers, Family, father, flags, Memories, Pack Rat Project; pack rat, reflection, scarves, time passing
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The Sedum Project
I make a visit to the grave about twice a year. As expected, the cemetery is a quiet, green place that sits below open skies and shaded lanes lined with old trees. Officially, two grandparents and my mother now rest there. Unofficially, my … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Gardening, Uncategorized
Tagged Family, family rituals, Flowers, gravestones, graveyards, johnny appleseed, Kindness, perennials, rituals, sedum, tending a grave, visiting the cemetery
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Sixty-one Things
Much in the same way I compiled a list of those things my mother had taught us, as Father’s Day comes around, the thoughts and reflections of Dad are strong. Those quirks and qualities, the small observances, have now become … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Advice, Dad, Family, Father's Day, Memories, Rememberance
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Thoughts on a Chicken
Traffic was moderate and moving steadily yesterday on the two lane road that is the middle leg of my commute home from work, when I spied a chicken on the edge of the northbound lane, waiting to cross the road. I looked again to make … Continue reading
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