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Shelly > November 21,2008 A Flower From My Friend -- and For My Friends Hope it brightens your day like it did mine. Happy weekend everyone!
Shelly > March 31, 2009 Ran out of Light So I left before the ball game ended to go home and have dinner with my family. So glad I turned around on the way to the car. "Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever-widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned, and to create something." -- Liz Carpenter
Shelly > January 6, 2000 Brooklyn Sunset I liked the Christmas decorations and the city in the BG -- even the red stoplight . . . Now that I've been there, I think I'll have to go back and re-read one of my favorite books from childhood, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." I read it again a few years ago and found it just as delightful as I did in fourth grade. It's a lovely story about a little girl growing up with her family in a Brooklyn Tenement around the turn of the century and was a number one best seller among our troops during WWII. The city has changed, but its history is still intact. And finally . . . here is my New York gallery -- Just a chronological memory of a fantastic trip. http://spccreative.smugmug.com/gallery/6979887_CZGD5#446719136_5SRCY
Shelly > October 1, 2008 Rubber Band Ball My grandparents used to have one of these in their kitchen. I suppose they frugally saved and reused every rubber band that held the Austin American Statesman together since the day rubber bands were first invented. Anyway, I loved to play with that funny little ball. If you bounced it, there was no telling which way it would go. Sometimes a band or two would fly off and land on the ground. We made up silly little games with that ball, and it could keep us entertained for a long time. I think all of my brothers and cousins have fond memories of it as well. I've made several of my own over the years, but none had the same magic that Meemaw and Papa's had. This one surfaced from the bottom of a junk drawer as we were moving things back into the kitchen this weekend, and it's been rolling around on the island ever since. The newspaper doesn't come with rubber bands anymore, but it does arrive in a plastic bag that's perfect for poop scooping whenever we walk the dog. Plastic bag balls just don't have the same appeal, but we try to reuse them just the same. "Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful." A. R. Ammons
Shelly > June 25, 2009 "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then." -- Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
Shelly > April 17, 2009 What a hugely stormy rainy day. The rain gauge on the fence overflowed, so we don't know how much water fell on our house, but much of it runs off into the Barker Reservoir in George Bush Park. After the skies cleared we took a little drive through the park to shake off the cabin fever that always seems worse when telephones, internet and cable all go down, disconnecting us from the world. "May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down." -- Sara June Parker
Shelly > July 25, 2008 T-G-I-F! It's been a hard week. Brannigan's teaching us how to cope with stress.
Shelly > July 6, 2009 Waiting for Ryann Chelsea (SOOC) The anticipation is just almost too much to bear. Last fall I bought two plumeria cuttings. Because they were only rooted last year, I really didn't expect any blooms this summer. Still, the Ryann Chelsea variety has been taunting me for several weeks with the promise of blossoms. Watching the twisted buds grow and start to explode has been very exciting, but then, I just get excited about things like that. You can't imagine the self-discipline it takes to keep from reaching in and trying to help them unfurl. Yes, I know better . . . learned that lesson many long years ago when I tried to help rush a rose bud. So I'm waiting . . . Maybe tomorrow. "Be still and know that I am God." -- Psalm 46:10
Shelly > October 31, 2008 Dickey Box Nice Cars Back in the old hometown last week, I just had to run out and grab a few images of this classic old car dealership. I don't know that too many people in Midland, TX think of this as a landmark, but to me it's a treasure that should be preserved. Cool structure, huh? Back in the 1970's the dealership had a sign that said "Dickey Box Nice Cars," but someone must have decided to upgrade the venture to "Motor Company." One of my high school friends had a stepfather who actually worked here as a salesman. We never knew when my friend would show up driving some new cute vehicle with dealer tags. She might have it for a day or two or maybe for a couple of weeks before she would give it back. Fun times -- we'd take that car to "Love's Burger Train" (but we all just called it Loves) for a French Vanilla Cherry Lemon Lime Sprite before driving by all the cute boys' houses. Last time I looked, Loves had turned into a beauty shop. Dickey must have sold all of his cars after he changed his sign. And the Robert E. Lee High School Class of '78 did not have a 30 year reunion this year . . . sigh.
November 21,2008

A Flower From My Friend -- and For My Friends

Hope it brightens your day like it did mine. Happy weekend everyone!
Shelly > November 21,2008 A Flower From My Friend -- and For My Friends Hope it brightens your day like it did mine. Happy weekend everyone!
November 21,2008

A Flower From My Friend -- and For My Friends

Hope it brightens your day like it did mine. Happy weekend everyone!
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