Posts from — March 2011
Coming up for air . . .
Seven days straight on a technical writing project. Whew! Fine tuning revisions today for client and graphic designer.
March 18, 2011 No Comments
Morning in Fairhope… it’s Arts & Crafts Weekend
What a fabulous spring morning! I am so grateful to live in Fairhope, enjoy my wonderful friends here, and write for a living.
The Meyer Lemon Tree is getting ready to flower — I gave it some milk, because it likes calcium. The wisteria is lovely and my azaleas are getting ready to burst into bloom. The basil (3 different varieties) and moon flowers are sprouting happily and just about ready to go into the garden.
I am choosing to ignore my neighbor who is attacking his greenery with a chain saw. (This is more difficult than it sounds, as I am tempted to launch my own attack on him.) What’s wrong with green in its natural state?
March 18, 2011 No Comments
Superintendent recommends closing Fairhope’s K-1 Center
Money, money, money . . . the old school used to house Grades 1-12 way back in Fairhope's early days.
I propose that we create the Fairhope K-1 Art Center and set up studios for working artists (in all disciplines) to use. Just like the old McGuffey School in Charlottesville, VA became the McGuffey Arts Center with inexpensive monthly space rental and juried admission. I had opportunity to rent a classroom ($50.00 a month) where I could show my photography and there was a dark room built into the old coat closet. It need not be redundant with the Eastern Shore Art Center . . . and it could offer artists (dancers, musicians, painters, writers, sculptors, jewelry makers, actors, performance artists, etc.) a supportive community.
March 14, 2011 No Comments
On awaking on the SyFy channel!
This morning, it was the immediacy of instant news with a NYT alert: 8.9 Quake & Tsunami hit Japan. Still sleepy, I tried to figure out if it was April Fool's Day. Regrettably, this morning, YouTube video was just a click away. Now Al Roker and Meredith Viera are giving updates on Hawaii and the West Coast. Is the Golden Gate Bridge imperiled?
We are still mending here in Baldwin County, as well as in Mobile, where F2 tornadoes destroyed homes & buildings on Ash Wednesday. It's a beautiful, crisp 39 degrees this morning in Fairhope. We'll be back into the 70s in a few days. The azaleas are starting to bloom, and soon they'll paint our world with color. I'll remember to breathe, and just 'be here now'.
March 11, 2011 No Comments
Did you ever have to make up your mind?
This year’s American Idol’s talent is over the moon! I wonder how many recording contracts will come after the 2011 season? I am blown away by almost all of the performances. I adore James Durbin whose aura is his own vulnerability, and I can’t wait to hear Jacob Lusk.
March 9, 2011 No Comments
Hmmm ….
Gonna need high water waders and a rowboat to get to client meeting! That is, if my house doesn't blow away during the storm.
March 9, 2011 No Comments
Yikes! Rain wrapped tornado warnings
And I have to focus on writing this morning. Ash Wednesday — Lent begins.
March 9, 2011 No Comments
Is it hot? Or, is it . . .
. . . cold? The weather cannot make up its mind today. It's cloudy, windy and cool. It's sunny and hot. Don't need the weather folk to tell us that we are in for Stormy Weather some time within the next 24.
Heading for the dog park with Lulu, then maybe a walk down to the bay and the duck pond — something of a misnomer since there are sea gulls, ducks and geese the size of miniature ponies as well as alligators and snakes. Fortunately I have experienced no close encounters with reptiles lately. And then there are those license plates from Maine, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and other parts north — it's Snowbird Season. It's a bit frightening since all the drivers have white hair if they have any hair at all. 'Spose they're thankful not to have to shovel snow for a while.
I'm totally grateful that I don't have to stand on Metro North's platform waiting to get on the train to Grand Central with freezing rain and snow whipping my long coat around my boots. So I better quit complaining about the weather.
March 8, 2011 No Comments
It’s Mardi Gras in Mobile & New Orleans . . .
. . . and it's cousin Michael Young's birthday in LA. Do I miss it — yeah, sometimes I long to be back in the evening writers' meeting in Pacific Palisades. I miss the bougainvillea I planted growing over the house in Venice Beach, and I miss my walks down to Electric Avenue and to Santa Monica. Glad for the experience . . . sometimes I wonder how life would have turned out if I had moved up to San Jose with the first SCEA crew and launch of Sony's Playstation. Then I remember, I am exactly where I am supposed to be at this moment.
My basil is sprouting, and the lettuce is happy outside. Down here on the third coast, I have flowers growing all year round. I walk down to the bay with the dog for my morning's meditation, and then Lulu, my white Shepherd, is too tired to interrupt me when I'm on the computer writing and learning about innovations in technology. And, Mr. Fujishima–if you are still in Tokyo, amicable Lovelace is clearly comfortable with the computer 
Well, this post is certainly full of nonsequiturs — like life.
March 8, 2011 2 Comments
Remember The Association. . .
"It's only when you doubt yourself that you get misplaced on your shelf . . . just make some changes and see…"
And, so I jumped headlong into Posterous and hope this post works as promised.
March 8, 2011 No Comments