Musings on a Small Life

Just a handful of snapshots taken recently. I know only that the first is an iris, of course. If anyone knows what the others are, please do leave a comment! Thanks!

The only thing I shall miss when I give up this townhouse (sooner or later...who knows?) is my little back space. Okay, technically it's not mine , it belongs to the condo corporation. They own the exterior of the building and all the accompanying land. Nonetheless, for all intents and purposes it's mine. It's very small: about 15.5 feet by 18 feet. I don't really have a green thumb and I certainly don't have an eye for what should go where. But still, it brings me Joy, and of course the cats enjoy the bit of greenery too. Thanks to one of my co-workers, I was able to get earth and more annuals yesterday, as well as two hanging baskets for the front, and I took the afternoon off to putter around. There's nothing quite like getting your hands into earth! I'll be moving all the containers around once the bleeding heart is done and cut back. BTW, she gave me some catnip, which you can see in a smaller pot on the right, next to the ivy. It'll be touch ...

1. Cell phone-shaped burns on someone's back, that have blistered and now are bleeding. 2. Any injured and infected body part that is oozing you-know-what...I can't even type the word, it's so disgusting to me. 3. The sound of someone using the bathroom while on the phone with me. Just so you know. This morning's "happy" is that it's not Monday morning. Hahahaha.

The last tulip pics for the year, I think, as most are done blooming now. The first two snapshots were taken on Friday around 7AM on campus, in front of the building adjacent to mine. The third snapshot was taken on Saturday morning.

I never get tired of this . . .

Nothing spectacular, just neat clouds.  :-)

I was channel surfing last Sunday afternoon and happened across Law and Order: UK on Showcase. Saw this yummy man and had to  Google to get his name: Jamie Bamber. Apparently he also starred as "Apollo" in the newer Battlestar Galactica, which I never have seen. Oh, he qualifies as eye candy! I've been drooling over the second image, for obvious reasons.  ;-) Happy Friday!

Years ago, in my 20s, I started keeping a journal of the good things about the day. I was unknowingly depressed at the time (hindsight always is 20-20, of course), and writing down the small things that were special about the day helped me focus, even for a few minutes, on the positive. Most of those things were Nature-based: the sunshine, birds, flowers, touching an Elder tree, the stars, the dogs and cats I met during the day and so on. Or were food-related, or perhaps were things like a good book I happened upon in a second-hand bookstore, or a favourite song I heard on the radio. More recently, when I was knowingly clinically depressed (and this time being treated), I would post to my on-line support group the "happys" for the day. Same concept, really, because most of my "happys" still were Nature-related or food-related (of course). I forced myself to do this, because there was so much negative energy within me thanks to the wonky brain chemistry, and so muc...

Today's sunrise. I wasn't feeling well, was debating on whether I could make it to the office, but the shuffle around the back with my camera told me nope. LOL. So no other pics for the day.

As I was walking home yesterday after work, I passed a grossly obese woman (probably only in her 30s) in a motorized wheelchair, headed in the opposite direction. We were abreast of each other when some rednecked asshole, a passenger in a slightly beat-up looking dark truck, leaned out the window and yelled, "Eeeeeewwwww!" The woman shouted back, "Go home!" which I found odd. Had it been me, I'd more likely have flipped him a finger or cursed audibly in self-defense. (Or perhaps burst into tears, being the super-sensitive and thin-skinned person I am.) Granted, the idiot in the truck (please, Goddess, don't let him breed) could have been shouting at me--I've certainly had enough nasty and cutting comments made to me over the decades to leave permanent, deep scars--but this time I don't think so. And I couldn't help but wonder if this woman has to deal with crap like this every day. How she possibly copes. How she manages to get up in the morn...

It was so cold here on Sunday that we had snow flurries in the morning. Seriously. I had great plans to walk to catch a bus up to Rona (big home improvement store, currently Home Depot's rival in town), then go to Cat. Centre, then to Pet Valu, but as soon as I stepped outside (wearing layers and gloves, mind you) I changed my mind and went for a few groceries at the closest store, then came home and huddled under a blanket. The cats didn't want any part of the cold temps, either, until late in the evening when the biting wind died down. In fact, the entire weekend was so cold that I didn't take any pics except a few of the fur family. I'm experiencing camera withdrawal at the moment. We have another heavy frost warning for tonight, then things should start to slowly thaw out and warm up. Feels more like March right now than May! I did walk the 5kms in to the office this morning, though, and hope to walk home also. After two days of mostly puttering around the hou...

This gull was in the middle of the street as I was walking to Kingston Centre on Friday morning. S/he was trying to carry off the rather large pizza crust but having difficulty!  No, I'm not going to take your breakfast away!  Second attempt to carry it off. BTW, a very happy Mother's Day to all the moms of humans and non-humans! (Image snagged from Pam's Flower Garden .) Have a wonder-full day, everyone. I wish you all the Blessings of Mother Earth and the Goddess.  :-)

Just a few more...Of course, these aren't all the ones I took, just the ones I wanted to share! :-)  I had to sit down on a nearby stump and wait quite a while for Mr. Bluejay to come out of the tree. I couldn't get any closer, I was at full zoom here. The last time I passed this way, I had to balance on the logs to get through the deep mud. It's certainly nice and dry now!  Another squirrel snacking on seeds a hiker left.