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  Obliging meerkat “It has been a long day. . .”

Our “Fairy Princess,” Zoë Alyson Calhoun, Two Years Old

Canada Goose on still water

Zoë on her third birthday

Some spectacular color!

  Click on a single photo, and it will toggle to a slide show screen.  Some of these you might have seen before, but at least not lately!  I have also included a few of my Greeting Cards. Let me know if you want some, or I can make a card with any quote, or without words, and blank inside, of almost all my photos.  Just contact me, and I will set it up. I will give quantity discounts, as well, so order lots!

Have you captured any light lately?

So, I hope you enjoy these, and if not – then to trouble you! (Click on a photo, and you will be taken to a slide show screen.)

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Pussy Willow branch #2

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Well folks, it has been a long time coming, but I am finally making a return trip to the blogosphere. Once everything gets settled, I will be posting at the new address twice a week – Tuesdays and Fridays. Posts will be brief, featuring selections of my poetry, with an occasional longer posting of one of my short stories. I hope you will enjoy my new format and new title,   Reason’s Moons   which…

Other than the Thanksgiving card yesterday, this is my first post here since wishing my and my husband’s eldest son, Joshua, a happy birthday this past August 10. I don’t want to miss the opportunity of wishing a happy birthday to our youngest son, Matthew Tohline Calhoun, and use the same article to announce an upcoming change to Reflections From a Cloudy Mirror First things first: HAPPY…

Thanksgiving is another word for Happy!

I hope you have had a wonderful day, and enjoyed this special day that celebrates giving thanks.  Saying “Happy Thanksgiving!” is redundant, because you can’t give thanks without being happy. I also hope that whatever you feasted upon, that you enjoyed every bite,, so as a quick reminder of what’s really important, I’ll share with you this little ditty I wrote a few years back:   The Pleasures of…

happy Birtyday, Joshua Ryals Calhoun!

Your last weekend as an only child, Thanksgiving 1979 Today is a sweet and special day remembered for your life of 38 years; as of 7:31 a.m. EDT, I confess to awaking at precisely that time again today, because, with no drugs on board, and my tailbone being dislocated by your poor, sweet and I am quite sure aching head (it had to have hurt bumping your head repeatedly into my bone like that!).…

A friend shared the following poster with me recently, which, when viewed in conjunction with reading the linked article on Plutocracy, is a gold mine of pithy, witty quotations and other writing. I do hope you will link to Mr. James Harbeck’s amazing article, and read it in its entirety. I recommend very highly, his blog, Sesquiotica, to everyone who loves words, language, and the language of…

My Princess

Our Commoner Princess Her muzzle is grizzled, her age is showing, but she still has a puppy shining through her eyes. I remember the day I first held her; she slumped wearily into my lap, and quivered in fear. She was easily the saddest little creature I had ever seen. She must have been the runt of her litter.We will never know for sure, because she was found, in the animal shelter parking lot,…

Here are a couple of recent poems of mine. The first is my first attempt at what is a,new poetic form for me – a terzanelle.  You can pprobably figure out the form requirements for this type, but I will tell you what they are anyway. It has nineteen lines written as five 3-line stanzas, followed by a quatrain. The rhyme scheme for each stanza is:  ABA, bBC, cDC, dED, eFE, fAFA. The final…

If you haven’t laughed yet today, here are some more signs, and a super video. If the signs don’t put a smile on your face, then the video likely will. If none of these work, then I will pray for you, because you must have a plate full of lousy. I’ll let God know I think you’ve had enough. . .

(Click on the link and enjoy the video. I wish I could have put it here directly, but no way to do it…

These were culled from some of my facebook shares. I’ve got more, but I will save them for another lazy day! Feel free to share. I certainly did!

Once again Will Rogers proved that there is nothing new under the sun.

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Hope you enjoy these and get a good laugh. It’s so impportant to laugh long, hard and often enough. ..

With An Apology to Robert Frost

Since I have not posted much here this month, I thought I would close out the month of April with a bit of fun, and maybe bid farewell to rough winter weather at the same time. I am posting for you a patody that I wrote of a famous Robert Frost poem, for my page at All Poetry.com.  I hope you enjoy it, and please remember, no disrespect for the great poet was intended!

This is not meant to bring…

Gull on Watch

It has been so long since I have been home– Truly home, that is. The walls, and the chairs, the bed, and the sheets are all mine– Books line the shelves, or clutter the floor. Most in that state are not read. Only if my Kindle device has nothing new. (It almost always does.) I gaze around me, slowly, a few familiars catch my eye, But my attention is quickly drawn away. Captured by…

To have been there that day!

Pictures of Scripture from a collection designed and photographed by Paula Tohline Calhoun

I open this Easter post with a scripture that never fails to make me weep – not in sadness, but in wonder and overwhelming joy.  This particular lesson was one of my father’s particular favorites, which likely adds  to my joyful tears. Whenever I read it, I hear his voice in my head. Many of us experience…

“It’s Friday. Sunday’s coming!”

“Moses said to Joshua: “This nation that I am entrusting you with, they are still young goats, they are still children. Do not be irritated with them for what they do, for their Master too was not irritated with them for what they did.” As it is written, “When Israel was a youth, I loved him; from Egypt I summoned My son.”

When Israel rebelled against G-d at the…

Forty Years Ago Today. . .

“Rabbit!”

. . .Ashley and I went on our first date! It boggles my mind to think that 14,610 days ago we began a journey (that includes 10 “leap days) that is still going on. Our days together have been replete with every sort of experience one can imagine, and while I am glad certain of these days are in the past, I regret none of them, mainly because Ashley was with me in body and/or in spirit.…