Collections & Books

I love books and have been collecting them for as long as I can remember. I rarely buy fiction anymore because I don't usually reread this type of book. Instead, I borrow from my local library. The books I buy are primarily reference books and art books, books I will use over and over. I have a nice collection of craft books as that is my primary interest and smaller collections of gardening, photography, home repair and remodeling, cooking, and computer books. My art books are primarily fine craft, folk, ethnic, and outsider art books. Several years ago, I started collecting children's books and pop-up and moveable books when I came across some inexpensive ones at my local thrift shops.

I collect other things as well. On the bottom shelf you can see some of my mini collection of Beanie Babies. This little collection, most of which were found in thrift shops, represents pets that I have rescued. I am missing one kitten, an all gray one, to stand in for my latest rescue.

Winter Aconite

Any of several low Eurasian perennial herbs (genus Eranthis, especially E. hyemalis) of the buttercup family Buttercup Family (Ranunculaceae) with solitary yellow or white flowers which often bloom through the snow.

I love this flower. Although it spreads and is working it's way into my lawn, the leaves die back after the bloom has gone, just about the time the grass needs its first mowing. I won't see it again until next year.

Window Decorations

Deer By The Roadway

These deer emerge every evening from the large city park in the background, undeterred by the traffic just a few yards away.

His Favorite Things

It Tried to Snow All Day

Today, it snowed intermittently all day with very little accumulation. Exiting the grocery store, it looked like a blizzard. Snow was blowing sideways across the parking lot. But, in the time it took me to buy a box of cookies to support the Girl Scouts at the exit, it stopped.

Blue Skies & Clouds

Who could miss the spectacularly blue sky and cloud formations today? Hard to believe but some people never look up.

My cold lingers ... the reason for some missing photo days