Self is always happy when she can participate in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge!
Rose Bowl Parade, 1 January 2019
Straw Angels, December 2018
Reading, December 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog reader. Stay tuned.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: PAIRS
January 15, 2019 at 2:34 pm (Books, Flowers, Holidays, Links, Personal Bookshelf, television, Women Writers)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Christmas, exhibits, history, reading lists, Redwood City, Russian writers
Places People Live: Redwood City, California
November 1, 2018 at 10:10 am (destinations, Filipino Writers, Flowers, Links, Places)
Tags: California, Cee Neuner, Garden, Redwood City
It’s been several weeks since self has participated in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge.
This week’s prompt is: PLACES PEOPLE LIVE.
Self has lived in Redwood City, California since 1992. Redwood City is halfway between San Francisco and San Jose.
She has flowers on her front porch, and shelves and shelves of books inside:
Front Porch, September 2018
A back room overlooks her deck:
Back Room: September 2018
Her backyard has a lot of trees, including three figs, an apple tree, and a laurel tree:
Backyard, August 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Pastel Colors from the Garden
September 26, 2018 at 6:23 pm (Flowers, Links, Places)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, inspiration, inspirations, Redwood City
Still working off Cee Neuner’s current Fun Foto Challenge: PASTEL COLORS.
It’s a really fun way to pass the time: walking around the backyard, snapping pictures!
Backyard, Redwood City, 26 September 2018
More Vibrant Colors for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
September 19, 2018 at 8:36 pm (Flowers, Links, Places)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, photography, Redwood City
Self went around her backyard today, taking pictures of her garden (in close-up), selecting subjects that matched Cee’s current Fun Foto Challenge: Vibrant Colors.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Vibrant Colors
September 19, 2018 at 3:38 pm (Flowers, Holidays)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, nostalgia, Redwood City, summer
Colors. How self loves them.
To make it even better, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is VIBRANT Colors.
Here are a few pictures self took this past summer:
One of self’s earliest rose purchases was this Fourth of July.
From Redwood City’s Annual Fourth of July Parade:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
The Garden in August
August 17, 2018 at 7:59 pm (Flowers, Surprises)
Tags: California, Fridays, Garden, Redwood City, summer
Masses of these started blooming last week:
Self did a wee bit of watering:
Summer’s almost gone.
Stay tuned.
Before I Was Your Slave, Now I Am Your Master: REBECCA, Ch. 21
August 13, 2018 at 7:23 pm (Books, Conversations, Flowers, Food and Drink, Recommended, Surprises, Women Writers)
Tags: Daphne du Maurier, Mondays, novel, reading lists, summer
SPOILER ALERT!
Having discovered that her husband is a murderer, the narrator is exhilarated because at last she has proof positive that he is not still in love with Rebecca!
Well-armoured with that knowledge, she goes calmly snipping roses in the rose-garden.
Then comes the moment of truth: the climactic confrontation with Mrs. Danvers.
It’s over that day’s menu.
The narrator finds it unsatisfactory, so she draws a pencil slash across the whole thing and sends it back to the kitchen. Shortly thereafter, Mrs. Danvers materializes to ask why the menu has been sent back.
“I don’t understand,” (Mrs. Danver says)
I looked at her, a rose in my hand.
“Those cutlets and that salmon were sent in yesterday,” I said. “I saw them on the side-board. I should prefer something hot today. If they won’t eat the cold (leftovers) in the kitchen, you had better throw the stuff away. So much waste goes on in this house anyway that a little more won’t make any difference.”
She stared at me. She did not say anything. I put the rose in the vase with the others.
Excellent shade, Narrator. Methinks you are moving from being Alice in Wonderland to becoming Joan of Arc.
Stay tuned.
Words: Rosario Ferré
July 20, 2018 at 6:09 pm (Artists and Writers, Flowers, Links, Sayings, Surprises, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: essay, Fridays, inspiration, Rosario Ferré, wisdom, writing process
I write because I am poorly adjusted to reality; because the deep disillusionment within me has given rise to a need to re-create life, to replace it with a more compassionate, tolerable reality. I carry within me a utopian person, a utopian world.
— from the essay The Writer’s Kitchen, Feminist Studies 12, no. 2 (Summer 1986), translated from the Spanish by Diana L. Velez
A minute ago, self decided to google Ferré and learned she had passed away, 18 February 2016. She was 77.
Noooooooo!
The View Across the Street From the Gallery Bookshop, Main Street, Mendocino, 21 April 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog writers. Stay tuned.
Columns, Part 2: for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
June 14, 2018 at 6:22 pm (Flowers)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, Redwood City, summer
Cee’s current Fun Foto Challenge is COLUMNS.
This time, instead of going over her archives, self went to the backyard. She’s always drawn to her rose bushes.
In a few days, this column will turn into a spray of red-and-white-striped roses.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Still More Twisted in the Garden
May 25, 2018 at 5:30 pm (Flowers, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: California, Fridays, Garden, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, Wordpress
Betty Boop and Fourth of July roses
Self is so fascinated by this twisted vine, which was only revealed after she did heavy cutting back of some overgrown bushes:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
