We got to Cortez CO

No idea who the cute baby was…

Checking into La Quinta in Santa Rosa, NM las night…while the fever raged. So I’m glad I took a photo before sleeping it off with a glorious night sweat (and tylenol and ibuprofen).

This day (Saturday) was long, but we got to my son’s home and have done most of the things ones does when you get home…

My son played with Zora, his Blue Tick Healer.

 And his wife prepared a simple delicious meal we all enjoyed, after I had a short rest horizontally.

Now I need to return to that position, so will show you more of the trip with fantastic views soon.

No more April fools

 Goodbye April...

There were demonstrations!

New York, April 25, 2025

The April 25, 2025 demonstrations (shown above Asheville, NC)

Heather Sarandos (C) from Baltimore holds up a sign while shouting during the anti-Trump protest in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, April 19, 2025

A politician who encouraged Democrats to fight! Governor Pritzker of Illinois speaking to the New Hampshire Democrats...the video of his speech here! Or check out Heather Cox Richardson's following post of Tuesday April 29. (https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson if you do Facebook, or subscribe directly to receive her newsletters in your own  emails!)

A fictional TV series, The West Wing never really happened.

By Susan Seddon Boulet - a reminder of my learning more about paganism in the class I took in April.

A bang of a surprise, going to the hospital 3 nights for pneumonia! And then needing more antibiotics because a sputum culture showed that I was carrying around a bacteria known as stenotrophomonas. Just trying to say it is enough to need medication!

My son and myself on the way to Telluride CO.

April will be remembered by me for my recovery and my trip out west. 

How has April been to you in your life?

Today's quote:

Your retina is physically bombarded by photons, giving rise to the mechanics of sight. Coded chemical information begins to course through the optic nerves leading from the eye to the brain. These data have no color in them, however, because photons are colorless, and so are optic signals. Color is known in consciousness alone.

That is how the quality of knowingness is embedded in existence. 

You could not be here without knowingness, which applies not just to color but to all five senses.

—Deepak Chopra
Total Meditation

Adding a bit of my pottery to share with you all! 

Small vase by Barbara Rogers

Happy New Year from Florida to South Carolina

I was awake after all...around midnight last night. But nobody to say happy new year to, nor to kiss, so I was asleep by the time I heard some fire works outside somewhere. And that was fine with me until the sun came up. Oh how beautiful! And I heard birds!

Moving backwards through my vacation...we shall see how this works.  I spent Mon. night at a motel in Hardeeville SC. Last post I arrived home.  Here I was still traveling on I-95 at the junction of I-16.

 For a change I did click a shot of the Savanah River through the passengers' window.

And propping the phone on the steering wheel didn't quite work to capture the "Welcome to South Carolina" sign.

That's the South Carolina flag below the stars and stripes.

 Earlier on Monday Dec 30, 2019, I came into Georgia (on I-95)

After leaving Florida of course!

 US 301 is a great alternate route diagonally across FL, but does have speed traps in some places.

An interesting church (while at a stop light) in Bushnell, FL.