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Rapunzel's tower from a distance

Mark's Birthday

We had soooo much fun on Saturday. Our friends Sally & Eric drove out from Ann Arbor, & Bunnie & Tony made the short drive from Mud Lake. We grilled a turkey in the afternoon, drank, had a bonfire, played some euchre . . . Mark got great presents (including an awesome pillow Bun made for him, the Star Trek bottle opener he's wearing as bling in the pix, and rock 'em sock 'em robots!) & had a most excellent day. He & Eric even got a game of disc golf in. We put the 1984 World Series Game 5 on the DVD player & dreamed of spring training.

Happy Birthday Mark!

Nearly 60 today!

Unsettling, this weather is. Where's our winter?

Yesterday on our walk we still had a little snow (first picture). Today: all gone. Sad face. I'm still hopeful we'll get ONE GOOD SNOWSTORM, but we're almost exactly halfway through winter now, and as Mark often says, once the pattern of a season is set, it's set.

But hey: there's a first world problem if I ever heard one.

It was a very nice, albeit muddy, walk today. Mr. Rochester loved it.

Onward!

Dinner at Gracie's

I took this last night, in New Lothrup, MI. Is that an old-timey sign or WHAT?! My father-in-law said that was Gracie's meat market building once upon a time. He remembers driving out to buy a side of beef on a regular basis.

Great dinner with lots of Bests to celebrate Dick & Shirley's anniversary and their birthdays.

Pretty sunrise

You can even see Mark on his way to work! He had the truck, as there was snow in the forecast that day (a week ago). Red sky in morning, Sailors take warning!

Posting from my iphone

It suddenly occurred to me that TypePad probably has an app. Of course they do! And since I take all my pictures on my 4S, and store them in the Cloud . . . Well, this is a match made in heaven. I'm relaxing with tea right now, my iPhones and iPad within reach, about to indulge my twitter addiction/fix.

So yes, you'll see more blogging from me in 2012! In fact, I think I'll post weekly poems again. Look for a new one by next Sunday.

Happy January!

Monday morning; no snow

Rapunzel Update!

Finally! Happy 2012! Hopefully I'll write many poems and blog posts this year. I'll try!

The first two images were taken in mid-December. The snow was a few inches and lasted a few days. Sigh. We had a lovely green Christmas, although we flew to Florida Christmas afternoon, so we also had tropical colors!

The third image was taken in January, right after we got back from Florida.

The final image was taken last weekend, after we once again got a bit of snow. Gone now!

It's January
Brown grass and wet windowpanes
I wish for snowfall

My Rapunzel picture this week is my favorite so far, I do believe. I took it about 4:30 p.m. today with my iPhone. Our first day off Daylight Savings Time. I'm always happy this time of year: there's something about the days growing shorter that appeals to me, Cancer that I am. And I love it when the sky opens up. As I look just to my right, when I sit at my desk, I see out my kitchen window, and in the winter there's nothing but treetops and sky. The view is a poem waiting to be written.

The first picture of Rapunzel's tower with my new iPhone 4S. Wow. The pictures it takes are truly gorgeous. Crisp, with tons of detail. I can edit them right on the iPhone. Lovely. I took this picture late afternoon today. Look at the difference between now and the first picture, which was taken in August. I took it from the same vantage point.