Monday again

 

Space...the final frontier. Well, at least the moon again!

An excellent read. Slowly. Not something to digest in minutes.

I heard about Tyson Yunkaporta when Starhawk quoted him. 

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other — not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. —Nelson Mandela

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

HELEN KELLER

Good news and not so good news

Passenger trains may again run from Asheville to Statesville again!

The not so good news is my health just landed me in the hospital again!

The first of about 6 attempts to give antibiotics to my pneumonia-attacked body. The 7th was done by a Vein Team member with quick precision by a young man from Mongolia! I was so intrigued by the ultrasound and his methods which work so excellent that I didn’t find out he got to Asheville NC!

I got aa kick out of the little kiss part of this cannula for oxygen!

With different symptoms that pushed me to call for an ambulance and then a CT scan - as I left my procedure a young man was wheeled in wearing very little clothes and with lots of injuries. It was sobering to see a real person who had been in an accident, and to know the same staff would give him equal treatment to that which I’d just received.

I had mostly good treatment. And as of this wring Im still sick and wanting to be back on my feet!

Two days ago I shot this azaleas.

That is all folks.

You know it's spring

 

Perhaps I've posted this view from my windows before. Memory isn't all that great today.

Happy Easter to those who celebrate!

Dawn on nearby mountain top March 29. Some days I stay inside and enjoy the view ...but some days I just must drive around to see what's blooming. You'll notice here a little dogwood tree is just by that ramp to the other apartments.

Dawn hits the mountain top on April 2...blooms have appeared.

On the other side of that building is a pink dogwood.

Posted this dogwood back on March 24...

And here it is in full bloom April 1.

I did drive around and called it my dogwood tour of Montreat and Black Mountain. The white blooms just are such great punctuation marks in the greyness of deciduous trees, or against occasional evergreens.

Through the windshield looking downhill.

Not my photo, but the swallowtails have appeared again!

On Rhododendron Ave. coming from the Lakeview Center on April 2.

More of the pink dogwood variety soon!

If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete.

JACK KORNFIELD

Sandhill Crane Colts

 

Found in Sarasota FL area...via FB.

Sharing with Saturday's Critters

Recent and past thoughts and scenes

 

Freedom! by Zenos Frudakis, Philadelphia

And these microscopic little ones travel around on our skin all over the place. It makes me wash my face with soap, and hope some of them go down the drain!

Kruzenshtern — Built in 1926, this magnificent four-masted barque stands as one of the largest traditional sailing ships still in operation

Wildfire created by wind-blown electric wires coming down. North Carolina mountains are at risk this time of year when we haven't had much rain.

Sepia Saturday's suggestions.

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Looking towards Black Mountain and Swannanoa from the Blue Ridge Parkway 3/29/26

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Face of Peace by Picasso

Did I mention my decision to not post any more war related photos. In trying to have a more peaceful existence I'm avoiding news of wars as well...by muting or fast forwarding through recorded items. 

After all, we are what we eat. And that includes the videos and stories we see and hear. I am afraid I still like murder mysteries, because after all, they usually have a happy ending...except for the victim however. May need to go back to romantic novels and TV shows. Well, maybe at least medical soap operas.

How do you cope with all the negative, awful, stress inducing news that the world seems so full of?