Wordless Wednesday

 

Van Gogh, Stary Night, 1889

Van Gogh, Stary Night over the Rhone 1888

Life Lines (2024), self-portrait by British portrait painter Louise Bird

And speaking of families...

Queen Victoria photographed with 29 members of her family in Coburg, Germany, gathered for the marriage of her grandchildren, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on 21 April 1894. (I have no idea which grandchildren were getting married!)

If you haven't experienced trauma in your life, then you might consider that which your ancestors experienced. I've recently learned that un-healed trauma is passed down through the generations. I believe this, because my mother suffered from having an alcoholic mother, and then passed on her resulting addiction (religion for her) to my sister and myself, who made attempts to recover from codependency to the traumas.

Oops, there I go ruining another Wordless Wednesday!

Wordless Wednesday Miscellaneous

 

I just turned 84. Just saying. Time to wear shades. I may have given up on a bit of things Mick is known for, but I still love Rock n roll!

From my pottery making days...

John Singer Sargent (American, Impressionism, 1856–1925) Simplon Pass, Chalets1911.

by Alan Ostmann, who may have a birthday with me.

This really makes me mad. Sorry it's a bit blurry.

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Starhawk is broadcasting a podcast, where she asks us to think more seriously about what we want from the revolution that's needed today...rather than what we don't want.

  https://starhawk.substack.com/p/podcast-and-video-future-visions?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-a9b0eeba-553e-47ba-9dc1-ec706acbbee6

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A woman who quietly made a big difference by helping with children's literacy (giving away millions of books) and offered music in the country way. Our lives have been bettered by having had her influence. Yes, I visited Dollywood with family once! I loved this woman and everything she did!

Almost Wordless Wedesday

My new blog today: https://durangobarb.blogspot.com/2026/08/tacos-to-quiche.html

Shhh! Library wordless Wednesday

 

Afternoon showers, we finally had a bit of rain on Aug 11.

I featured the exterior of the Durango Public Library earlier in the month.

First floor has meeting rooms, and a lot of fiction...

And a great view of the Animas River

A huge children's room, as well as a separate room for story time.

and an elevator to the second floor where...

research and non-fiction are available, as well as these views...

 The bike path goes for miles along the Animas River, and here the narrow gauge railroad that goes to Silverton.

Many young people are riding electric bikes around town. The library can check out bike locks for those who visit there.

and yes, you can sit out on these balconies and enjoy reading or whatever!

Sharing with (almost) Wordless Wednesday

Cortez Balloon Fest

 

In the quiet of Sunday morning, a whoosh whoosh sound breaks the peace...as two hot air balloons traveled effortlessly across the canyons of Cortez above my son's home last Sunday morning. Photo by Tai Rogers.

Due to erratic winds, the floats were canceled on Saturday morning. The rest of these photos are from the internet.

Friday night had been a glow fest, as well as a drone air show.

Sharing with Wordless Wednesday (almost)

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Update on moving anxieties...

I've daily looked for a letter regarding North Carolina stopping my medicaid coverage, so I could officially apply for it here in Colorado...which will help with paying my drug costs.

But no letters have come even with the little yellow stickers of my forwarding address. I may get few bills by mail these days, but now living here past 2 weeks, I am a bit worried. 

So I'll go to the post office tomorrow and see what might be hanging things up.

If it's not one thing...

The good news is that I received a refund of most of my deposit money from my old apartment ..less the mandatory cost of carpet cleaning. When I moved in 11 years ago they had just laid new carpet down, so it stands to reason it needed it. However, that wasn't the policy when I moved in.  

Now to go bank shopping to deposit the check somewhere here.

Just some photos

 

Large plastic (of some kind) tree of life, lightweight...free to anyone who will come get it in Black Mountain. Color is soft forest green but can be painted. (Give a comment below if you are interested!)

Aerial view of Central Park, NY by Lensaloft photography

That's how I learned how to dive!

Wordless Wednesday was my goal. 

But there's this which was quoted on Wordsmith's Word-a-day yesterday.

NOT sure I agree...

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”

Beryl Markham

Looking for spring beauty

 

On a grey day this dogwood showed signs of buds about to bloom. This was the day before 84 degree temperatures...perhaps that pushed them open!

Last week several nights were below freezing, but the Bradford Pear survived, and is moving toward having green leaves now.

Nobody I know, just wanted to show the fireplace!

The Cornerstone Restaurant in Asheville offers breakfast all day long.

I'm helping spring along. Some grocery store flowers sit on my table next to the machine which has a vest to vibrate my lungs to help me breathe.

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Sharing with Tom's Tuesday Treasures and Wordless Wednesday.

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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. -Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

Black Mountain's Beautification Committee does a great job of putting some blooms in the corners people go by.