What are we breathing?
With all the wildfire smoke in the air I look across my backyard and everything is a haze of smoke. I can’t see the blue sky … only a haze of smoke. I can’t see the Cascade Mountains…
Blessings in the season of orange (aka: “smoke season”)
Once more this morning the sun came up a fiery ball of red-orange through the smoke. Overnight the smoke from the eastern part of my state wafted westward and was broken up by the peaks and valleys of…
Renewed day-by-day
As I was out this morning picking blackberries, everything was an abnormal stillness as smoke hung heavy in the air and the light of the sun was an abnormal orange-y-yellowish (due to all the wildfire smoke from eastern…
Gladness … in orange.
As the sun is coming up this morning it is an abnormal reddish deep-pumpkin-orange color. (due to the wildfire smoke from eastern WA) It’s fascinating how the sun being a different color from what is normal is very…
The season of orange
It is the season of orange. The sun is an abnormal orangy-light today as there is wildfire smoke in the air. Vast areas in the eastern part of my state are on fire and burning. Hundreds of thousands…
Trusting the air traffic controller
Yesterday was the Blue Angels’ practice day. Today is the "real deal.” Exciting! Via my handy dandy flight-tracking website, I zoomed in on the portion of the map where the air show would be … then I settled…
It’s practice time!
I was calmly sitting at my dining table working on the computer when all of a sudden … the thundering roar of fighter jets blasted past overhead! Whoa! The Blue Angels are in town! WhooHoo! (for a second…
Christmas in July! (part 2)
Here at the end of July, I thought it would be fun to share an update on how the plants from my Christmas Advent Seed Calendar are doing. Christmas in July! (You can see part 1 here: Christmas…
Faithfulness … and “fork support”
With it being the last couple of days of July, I thought it would be fun to share with you how my Advent Seed Calendar is doing. Christmas in July!Today's highlight is the sunflowers!In the last blog post,…
Changing as we age … yet still the same person
Here at the end of July, I thought it would be fun to share with you how my Advent Seed Calendar is doing. Christmas in July!Among the wonderful seeds in my Advent Seed Calendar, there were Zinna seeds.…