Stay N Save

A little neighbourhood market with a great name.  Kind of makes you want to just move in and stock up on the bargains.

free-range rainbows

How is it that there is amazing beauty in pollution in a paved parking lot?  The iridescent petroleum film on a rain puddle this afternoon captured my eye. Just look at the lovely colours!  I still prefer the rainbows in the sky - they are less toxic.  Support organic, free-range rainbows!

potpurri

Moss on the Garage Roof

I pass these windows daily

See! Blue Sky - we can wear shorts

Master of the Digital Universe? - Not me!

 

A long Easter weekend and I am signing off for the weekend. I am not sure what I think about the caption on this Yahoo page, but  I am leaving the computer off for the weekend.  I plan to take joy in what I can do without being plugged in, tuned in or connected. We are all connected, but I doubt that it has much to do with the internet.  This stuff is fun and interesting, but what is real, who loves you, and what can you do to make the world a better place?  

Happy Easter

Raindrops Resting on a Lupine Leaf

The pleasure of stopping and looking at these few raindrops on a lupine leaf could have been missed if I didn't take the time to stop for a second look.  

Could I have survived without noticing? Certainly.

Was it worth stopping? Certainly. 

 

Contentment

Contentment

Every time I enter the mall

I have an expectant sense

That there might be

Something here that I need.

Something there,

If I looked carefully

Or searched long enough

Or asked the right question,

Would improve my lot in life.

For all my shopping,

The only thing

I can never find at the mall

Is contentment.

Jim May

July 11, 2010

Technology improves over time

 

If technology improves over time, why can I still make calls on a phone my grandmother had, yet most cellphones don't make it to their 3rd birthday? And why does a $25 dollar 10-year old dishwasher from Craigs' list only need a 35 dollar part to get it going again, while my new dishwasher, purchased last May, hasn't washed a dish since February, despite numerous phone calls (many of them on my rotary phone) and visits from the tech guy including replacing and shorting out two circuit boards??? makes you wonder.