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The Lakeview Center for Active Aging - to the left is the dining area, where we also do exercise classes. To the right is the pool, which opens each day for the summer, causing a pinch to find parking spots for the seniors! (Especially the less ambulatory ones!)

Thursday, June 11, 2026

Celebrate life

 
Yes, my son Russ and his family will be attending several World Cup matches, in Atlanta and Philadelphia in the next month.



Today's the birthday of my beautiful daughter-in-law, Michelle. She and my son, Russ recently went to NY city and attended a play "The Lost Boys."


I love Michelle's efforts for gun control and to elect better representatives in Ohio. And she has been mother to three wonderful young women, my granddaughters. 

Happy Birthday Michelle!



'The Circle' by Tanya Mikaela

Such a sense of joy on the face of my daughter-in-law, Barbara! Caught in the background of another person in a photo!


Some veggies aka volunteers (and employees) of Bounty and Soul food distribution in the Asheville area.

What? I've posted this before? Well, that's what resistance is all about, resist, repeat, resist.


Sunrise - not my photo.

Sharing with Thankful Thursday!








Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Going a-cross-country vs present time

 


We're planning some smaller transport, pulling the car behind a truck across the country, NC to CO! Yes it's around 1700 miles.

Maybe a repeat by a Honda owner. Does this mean that these car owners all have some kind of brain meld going?

Monument Valley, Utah, shared on FaceBook's American Southwest group





I hope to live about a hundred miles or so from these sights. I feel like Cinderella in many ways, working the mundane tasks to prepare for the magic of the trip, with the goal of ending up living in my own fairytale castle. My imagination takes me to so many fun places!

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Every time I cook!







 

No matter how happy I had been in the past, I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I live.

JAMAICA KINCAID

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I have to make myself do a to-do list, almost every hour...mentally at least. I need to keep pulling my attention away from the future rather than the past these days! 

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Today is the birthday of my granddaughter Caroline!!



Happy birthday caroline!!


Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Covered Bridges (3)

 Starting out with miscellaneous bridges which I didn't have names for their files.

Sharing with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures!


Does a pedestrian bridge count? We can certainly guess where this is!

Inside the pedestrian bridge at Old Salem Village, NC. which just goes over a road below.





Central Ohio - Mill Creek


Cottage Grove, Covered Bridge Tour, Oregon


Covered bridge in Lancaster County Central Park. Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Covered Bridge In West Arlington, Vermont!


Covered Bridge Mountain Air Country Club - Burnsville, NC, by Yurko Design and Architecture, Asheville NC

What? Burnsville is near where I live in Black Mountain! Can I go see it?

OK, first it's a private country club. They do have a FaceBook page, and my mouth dropped open at all that happens there. Arrival via private plane or helicopter is perfectly fine on the runways. No photos of this tiny little bridge among all the others posted. So I'll keep it in my collection as memorabilia, but doubt that I can go find it in person, if it even exists still.


Cox Ford Bridge, Parke County, Indiana

East Hill Bridge over the Flatrock River, Rushville Indiana


The Cornish-Windsor Bridge, New Hampshire


The Cornish-Windsor Bridge
Thanks Marcia for letting me know about this New Hampshire bridge.


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“Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


When I  posted a picture of Tiananmen Square's student protest yesterday, I was acknowledging that the Chinese young people at that time had learned what a democracy was...somehow in a communist state.

The autocracy now moving through the USA wants to change the history being taught to our children. Please make efforts to keep accurate history in our schools, so we don't miss learning about democracy compared to those Chinese almost 40 years ago.

Monday, June 8, 2026

The Blue Ridge Mountains plus democracy

 




by Shelley Hale flame azalea Carver Gap on the Appalachian Trail





This is what professional photographers produce!

I might have prettier photos, but I missed seeing these blooms at their peak. 


The recent anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest, where it became known to the world that Chinese students knew what democracy meant, and they wanted it. I'll never forget learning that the roll of film with this photo had to be smuggled out in a journalist's underwear.

These are frequently on Jeopardy questions and answers.






When my voice stops with death,
my heart will keep talking to you.
~ Rabindranath Tagore


And sharing John Anvilcloud’s blog post yesterday of beautiful shots of poppies!