Monthly Archives:April 2011

Today’s A to Z Challenge letter is W

Yet one more reason I love Alaska – taken on the way home from men’s group last night.

This is in reply to Velvet Verbosity’s 100 Word Challenge. This week’s word is BATHED. And, since this is the last challenge during Poetry Month, I thought my entry should be a poem.

This is for the many mamas and their babies out there. We may not have all been Mamas, but we have all been babies with mamas.
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Brushed and bathed
And ready for bed
Mama pulled them close
And the little one said

Mama? Tell me why
Do I have to go to sleep
Must I close my eyes
And count some sheep

Can’t I stay here and
Cuddle with you
Could you read a story
Or maybe even two

Hush, little ones
Mama replies
It’s time to rest now
Close your wee eyes

They hugged and then
Gave a kiss or maybe three
As mama rocked her
Toddlers on her knee

The moon shone through
The window brightly
As mother and children
Held each other tightly
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Today’s A-Z Challenge letter is V.

During this monthlong A-Z challenge I have shared pictures of the area in which I am blessed to live. Today, as the letter is V, I want to share a few more. Within a 5 mile distance is a great area to view a wide open expanse. Some folks call this area the Kenai River flats and it can afford a great view of two mountain ranges, Cook Inlet and the Kenai River.

At this time of the year – if we are blessed – we get to see the annual return of sandhill cranes, Canadian geese and snow geese. Today I went on a bit of a safari to see if I would be so blessed. Missed a great shot of the birds lifting up en masse to go across the road and down the river a bit . . . 🙁 . . . but was able to get one shot.

In the first shot below (click for larger views) you can see a view of the flats – in the second I cropped out a shot of the geese feeding. Yeah, those white blobs are geese. I needed to be nearer to get a good shot – maybe later tonight when I go to class.

The third picture is from a different location very near the first – showing the great rainclouds we are experiencing today. No complaints about the rain from me – it is holding down the dust and I am not sneezing nearly as much. Yay!

That last pic is from the bird viewing area near the boat docks. As I was getting into my car I noticed something with an orange ribbon on it – surveyor type tape.

Can hardly see it in the first shot – so look closer at the second – Hey! Whatshoelookinat? 🙂

Yup – one lonely shoe – don’t know if someone dropped it there – or if it came up on a high tide and was deposited. It’s not very muddy so probably that first, but you would have to wonder why they just left it there.

or not.

Happy “V” day, everyone.

Today’s A-Z Challenge letter is U.

Unforgettable . . . or the opposite of that. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

With each strand of rapidly graying hair I find that my memory skills are lessened. I still can remember words and how to use them – how to string them together properly to make sense. I can do the newspaper crossword – in pen! – in about 20 minutes (with interruptions) as I sit at the desk for the receptionist’s lunch hour.

But names . . . argh!!! Names will often escape me. It used to be funny when hubby-moose and I would be out and about and we’d run into someone we knew we knew . . . but couldn’t quite pull out the name. We’d fake it – rather than make someone feel bad – and as we would walk away we’d look at each other and try to be the first to say Who was that?

Today at a luncheon I introduced myself to someone who told me we had met recently. Sigh. I just pointed out my gray and told him I had earned every one of them.

Good thing I have trusted people near me who can help when I forget a name. They are, and will always be, unforgettable.

He is risen indeed!

Happy Easter, friends.