Let's Give a Hand!

There was a Flickr Day in the Life Project on May 5th. You are supposed to submit your best photograph of the day. I kind of got sidetracked, thinking I'd take pictures of hands for the day. It was a fun exercise.

Unconscious Mutterings

I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Film :: Movie, Camera
2. Dragon :: Lady
3. Hunger :: Thirst
4. Plucked :: Chicken
5. Dissolving :: Melting
6. Executive :: Order
7. Ridiculous :: Silly
8. Mist :: Fog
9. Minority :: Majority
10. Map :: Atlas

and I MAY be first?

One Year

From my old Blog, Other Side, the post for a year ago:

Signing off now from the East side of Lansing. Catch up with you sometime next week, on the other side of town! Love ya!

What a year it has been!

Sunshine and Rain

Diane is coping with hard times. Her indomitable spirit is amazing. I swiped this quiz from her.

I took the "The Nine Muses" quiz on gURL.com
		My muse is... Calliope Calliope is the patron goddess of epic poetry. She is often depicted holding a writing tablet and wearing a golden crown, for she is the oldest of the muses and their leader. Her name means "The Fair Voiced," but Calliope inspires eloquence in writing. Read more... Who is your muse?

The Jacks are out in the Woods

Jack-in-the-Pulpit

boring boring

We're doing the after-inventory adjustments at work, so there are long hours and not much going on. Plus, I'm still recuperating from having the nieces for the weekend. Where DO teenagers get all that energy! I'm kind of boring this week. Say, anyone want to help with the lawn?

Spring Zooms

Oh, and I should have been saying: The last three photos are from my mother's garden.

And a Flowering Quince

Sounds about right

Your Taste in Music:

80's Rock: High Influence Country: Medium Influence 80's Pop: Low Influence 90's Hip Hop: Low Influence 90's Pop: Low Influence

How's Your Taste in Music?

Found via Julie.

Flowering Almond

Oh man, it's impossible to choose. Flowering Almond, violets, lilacs, lily-of-the-valley, yikes! What is your favorite spring flower?

Unconscious Mutterings

I have the nieces again for the weekend, but two of them are still sleeping, and one is wrapping birthday presents, so I'll mutter!

I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Tumor :: Growth
2. Bunch :: of grapes
3. Gratitude :: Thankfulness
4. Feel alive :: Once I hit west of M-100
5. Connect :: Join
6. Temptation :: Resist
7. Brighten :: Lighten, whiten
8. Jewelry :: Ring
9. Tough :: Rough
10. Harmless :: Tame

Miracle

You remember my aunt N, who was close to death back in March? Her stomach had become strangulated, part of it caught up in her chest cavity. She wasn't getting enough blood flow, and the original prognosis was that surgery to correct it would kill her. So all her nephews and nieces (she has no children) made their way to the hospital to say what we thought were our good-byes. She was at peace with the decision, and gave everyone little happy tidbits to remember.

Well, another surgeon was called in. He thought he could do a simpler surgery. Aunt N. had the surgery done two weeks before Easter. On Good Friday, her brother, Uncle H., checked her out. She wasn't through rehabilitation yet, but he thought his rehab plan would work better.

Yesterday I was out in the yard, burning branches, and a car beeped and pulled into the driveway. Out one door popped Uncle H. Another door opened, and it was his wife, AuntM. And a third door opened, and there was Aunt N, walking under her own power. Wow!

Lilacs

The lilacs are early this year.

The Farm - 1941

From the May 2004 archives

Take the What Fruit Are You? test by Ellen!

Looking at Old Archives From Other Side

Finding this from May 2005. It had been created using instructions from Mandarin Design. meg passed on in June of 2006. Time remembered.

REMEMBERThem

And time
remembered is
grief forgotten.

It Wouldn't Be Spring

. . . without me posting this. Thanks for putting up with me!

For winter's rains and ruins are over
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins
- Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Close Cousin?

Here's the honeysuckle, which looks a lot like the pear blossom, I think. However, the scent of honeysuckle is out of this world! (Unless you're allergic.)

Pear Blossoms

Happy May! This is the grandest appearing month in Michigan . . . as long as we get some sunshine! *grin*

Full Moon Coming

Once again, Bryn (thank you so much!) gives us the full moon information.

Full Flower Moon - May In most areas, flowers are abundant everywhere during this time. Thus, the name of this Moon. Other names include the Full Corn Planting Moon, or the Milk Moon.

What do they call the full moon in your part of the world?