Category: Friends

  •     This little guy turns 90 today.   Happy, Happy Birthday, Daddy!       1923 was a long time ago…

  •   This little one is now in his 40's!            

  •     Look at all of those teeth! A little over three months ago this was his wonderful smile…     He's been working hard on those teeth!           One of my very best pal's baby, possibly my grandchild…

  •     Try to look at this and not smile.. Go ahead, I dare you!       For the next few days, there will be some photos of the beautiful children in my life. These three are my adorable nieces!

  •     Sometimes it's the things that you can't see or figure out in an image, or in life, that are the most intriguing.   Not the things that make you crazy, but the things that make you  wonder.       Photo by Vicki Johnston, as we tested my new camera on her back…

  • These two clouds drifted apart a bit more before coming back so close together that they became one. Kind of like our relationships, the rythm of our friendships and love, ebbing and flowing like grand clouds dancing in the sky. Far apart one moment and close as a kiss the next. This is a time…

  •     (To paraphrase e.e. cummings…)   not all matterings of mind equal one iris           The line as I remember it is: not all matterings of mind equal one violet And aren't we lucky to see such things?  

  •     How lucky to go home to Baltimore and stumble upon the Flower Mart in Mt. Vernon Place, and to spend the afternoon with one of my very favorite people on the planet.   I must be living right.         The Church in Mt. Vernon Place and the people of Baltimore…

  •     What I have been trying not to say out loud, is that there are blessings or gifts hidden in tragedies, and these gifts may not be obvious for some time to come, but they are there.   If we can make a commitment not to let the anger and helplessness allow us to…

  •     Wouldn't it be great if, everyday you realized that you are bursting with life?   That the packet of your body is loaded with energy, and beauty and love and trust and an unstoppable urge to be alive and well  and happy?     Watch out world!            …