Beautiful Blooms!

It's a warm Florida day, presaging the heat and humidity to come soon. As I step outside my front door in my pajamas to photograph the beautiful PURPLE iris I saw from the French doors, I note that the amaryllis that our 92-year-old golf and bridge and organ-playing friend gave us 15 months ago. It is proudly, boldly, sensationally abloom! So YOU get to see them both!

MOUNTAINS!!!

With this weekend's trip to Asheville, I am reminded of how much I love MOUNTAINS!

Those wonderful overlapping ridges of blue, the serpentine turns of the road, and the way the clouds and mist hang about the peaks, are all thrilling to me. Let's not forget that Florida is a sandbar, and except for a place called Lake Wales, it is exceptionally flat. Bridges are truly the high points around this area.

New Hampshire-born and raised, I revel in scenes like this: