Step Into My World

Journaling is my world. This is where I live. Recently my sister and I were having a discussion about keeping a journal. She didn't see any reason to keep track of things day by day. I don't know any other way to do it. That doesn't make either one of us wrong, just different. It's a way to keep track of what's going on in my life, to try out color schemes, to b....h, to cry, to settle arguments, it's just a place that I love to be.

I've included a few pages to share with you. I keep a little lined notebook by my recliner and in the morning when GMA is on I record the previous day's events. If things happen on that day that I don't want to get away from me I make a little sticky note and save it to that page, a black butterfly, the wonderful smell of fresh ground coffee, a song I heard.....

Do you keep a journal? I'd love to know.

Diane

Stick?

Last night Rascal was closely observing something on the carpet. "What are you looking at that for, it's just a little stick." I said. He continued to stare at it and it seemed to have moved a little. So I looked at it closer and found out it was a dragonfly! I have no idea how it got in the house. I scooped it up on a note sheet, took it's photograph and turned it loose outside - and - it flew away! Diane

Chickadee, dee, dee, dee, darn!

I think this little chickadee is mad at me because I don't have any birdseed for him. I think he can find things right now, the other ones seem to be It's funny how he (she) seems to know that I'm the one to blame. Maybe he's had a talk with my husband.

Amanda's blog is http://stinkpotstudio.blogspot.com/ You might hop over and take a look at it. She's putting it together beautifully. Also, Greggs is http://180pz.blogspot.com/ His is great, too. We can watch his flights and where he is at any given time (in the air, of course). Diane

Early Morning Rain

How lovely to have a beautiful rainstorm while you're eating breakfast, especially when there haven't been too many this summer. It's just a wonderful way to start the day. Diane

Family

Among all of the wonderful experiences was belonging to the animal family for a while. Let me introduce you. The one close to me with my hand on him is Brutus. He's a gentle sweet soul and huge! He's found joy and love after Gregg rescued him on a lonely stretch of highway. He was the most awful mess, stinky, and in need of vet attention big time. After all of that was taken care of he emerged a gorgeous, loving creature. We think he'd been dumped for a bear to eat because he was so old. All he wants is to be loved.

At my feet the other black dog is Django. Django is a pound dog , lovely, sweet and is the first dog in the family of 4 cats. She acts to me like she's just trying to cooperate and be loved. And loved she is. She flies in the plane to wonderful places with the earphones on so she can be part of the conversation and is the matriarch of the dogs.

And then there's Guiness!!!!!!! He's the innocent looking little cherub. Don't be fooled. He has more personality in a whisker than some dogs have in their whole body. He spent the entire time I was there trying to steal something from me, anything, socks, bra, nighty, phone, paper, it didn't matter. I laughed more at this little imp than I have laughed in years. I wished that I could bring him home with me. He was the naughtiest dog I ever met..........and he found a sweet place in my heart forever.

Tomorrow..........the cats. Diane

Beautiful

To me this was incredible. If you enlarge it and look closely you can see the different patterns in the water. This is caused by the glacial water and the freshwater from different sources mixing together. It forms patterns as it goes. Diane

Beauty Everywhere You Look

From a raft on the Kenai River.

Glacial pool and glacier and mountains in background.

Another mountain valley and glaciers.

The glacial water REALLY is this color - turquoise!

Diane