I had the sweet fortune of waking up the other day to find a newly born calf asleep behind my cabin. The little bundle stayed in basically the same position for about 3 hours...fast asleep in the sunshine...opening an eye now and again or repositioning her head. Finally, the mama came around mooing insistantly and very loudly and stopped about 20 feet away from her baby. The friend that I was talking with on the phone said the mama stops a ways away on purpose so that the calf has to actually use her new legs to get up and walk to her. Well, the little gal got up on those brand spanking new legs, wobbled a wee bit and then in a drunken weave made her way over to her mama for breakfast.
Oh happy day!
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
Jam Glam!
I figure once you hit 97 years old you get to do pretty much anything you want. So yesterday when my friend, Helen, decided she wanted to wear her brightly colored flannel jams into town, I was down with the program.
One of the other things about being 97 is that no matter what you do, people think it is facinating/inspiring that you are still upright! So, the fact that she was going to yoga class in her jams... well, that right there made for some seriously good role modeling!!!
One of the other things about being 97 is that no matter what you do, people think it is facinating/inspiring that you are still upright! So, the fact that she was going to yoga class in her jams... well, that right there made for some seriously good role modeling!!!
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Art Day
an afternoon spent in the garden eating yummy food, visiting, laughing and making "art"...was a relaxing, light-hearted and entertaining time. In the photo above meet "the blockheads" who presided over the day...they were quiet yet watch-full and set just the right tone!!
one of many inspired creations here at art day!
(in case you can't tell from the photo, it is made out of a gourd with a variety of plant materials to adorn her fishy body!)
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Planet West County
For those of you not familiar with western Sonoma County where I live, I want to try and paint you a picture of it...for it will be an amusing backdrop when at the end, I tell you what I saw here today.
First of all, if you are in the know, you call it West County. That in itself means something especially when said with a particular attitude. The characters that inhabit this area are...ummmmm...color-full? There's an interesting mix of peeps...which seems to mostly work...well, in the sense that people don't tend to kill each other at least! anyways, on any given day you might find yer spiritual seekers, new age space rangers, arteests, homahsexuals, maryjuana growers and smokers, therapy junkies, red necks, xtreme lefty zealots, aging hippies (the men still sport pony tails and Birkenstocks and the gals long flowey dresses with hairy arm pits), the young hippies wear dreads and don't shower so much, old timey farmers, rich yuppies and then yer assorted wing nuts and whack jobs. So, it did NOT phase me to see an entire family in town today ALL wearing tye dye shirts!!! No joke. However, I did laugh out loud and wonder if they were part of a cult!
First of all, if you are in the know, you call it West County. That in itself means something especially when said with a particular attitude. The characters that inhabit this area are...ummmmm...color-full? There's an interesting mix of peeps...which seems to mostly work...well, in the sense that people don't tend to kill each other at least! anyways, on any given day you might find yer spiritual seekers, new age space rangers, arteests, homahsexuals, maryjuana growers and smokers, therapy junkies, red necks, xtreme lefty zealots, aging hippies (the men still sport pony tails and Birkenstocks and the gals long flowey dresses with hairy arm pits), the young hippies wear dreads and don't shower so much, old timey farmers, rich yuppies and then yer assorted wing nuts and whack jobs. So, it did NOT phase me to see an entire family in town today ALL wearing tye dye shirts!!! No joke. However, I did laugh out loud and wonder if they were part of a cult!
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