PINK

Driving home from work I could see the PINK mountain through the inversion smog. It was like hope through mists of darkness. I noticed another driver getting a photo of it too.

A CORNER

Macklin was happy to find that the puzzle piece fit in A CORNER of the frame. 

What fun we had today!

JUST NOW

JUST NOW I am shelling a bag of pistachios that were in my freezer. I think I inherited them from Lexi, and she's been gone for two years! Now that they are shelled maybe they'll get eaten!

CAR

This CAR pulled in just as I was recording the sunset from MY CAR in a parking lot.

SO COLORFUL

A few COLORFUL things in my house lift me from the winter blues of gray and white. The bowls on my windowsill, the markers in my pencilbox, and the toys that await grandkids coming to visit. 2 year old Harley wants someone else to turn the crank on the Jack in the Box because she's not positive that the clown who pops out is not a robot in disguise, and robots are a little terrifying to her. But she screams in delight when Jack "surprises" us over and over again. SO COLORFUL are her screams of laughter, my ears ring for hours afterward!

DRINK

There was this cool view of evening sun frosting the clouds as I left work today. As I got on the freeway it had turned all pink and orange and beautiful, but I had to keep moving, so I tried to just DRINK it all in - it's saved somewhere in the recesses of my mind - and this was all that was left when I stopped for gas.

ME

"Hi Mom, It's ME Syd! I just had to tell you this funny 

(cool, awesome, hilarious, weird ) thing that happened..."  

Love it when she does that! The first time was when she called me from a phone booth when she was 15 and away at Girl's Camp. I never thought of doing that to my mom when I was a teenager! And being one (the oldest) of nine, she must feel like she has to identify herself - it's ME, Syd - cuz she still says that every time.

ME and ME Syd