Showing posts with label Butterflies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Butterflies. Show all posts

Sunday, October 5, 2025

HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE - BEGIN IN PEACE...

"...begin in peace and end in gratitude."

~Patricia Routledge~




You can find out more about this wonderful lady at this link

Has anyone watched "Keeping Up Appearances"? It was one of our favorite British sitcoms and we have watched many reruns on our TV. Patricia Routledge portrayed Hyacinth Bucket but insisted that her surname is pronounced "Bouquet". She was a wonderful actress and I was very familiar with her even before this popular role. 

I read her biography recently and there was one quote that stood out for me, which I have shared today below the butterfly photo. 

She had been made a Dame and her full title was Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge (2.17.29 - 10.23.25), born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, UK. Her father, Isaac Routledge, was a haberdasher and gentleman's outfitter, who married Patricia's mother, Catherine Perry, in 1924. Dame Patricia was a wonderful lady and more can be read about her life at the above link. 

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

I HAVE FOUND…

such joy!
I have found such joy in simple things;
A plain, clean room, a nut-brown loaf of bread,
A cup of milk, a kettle as it sings,
The shelter of a roof above my head,
And in a leaf-laced square along the floor,
Where yellow sunlight glimmers through the door.
I have found such joy in things that fill
My quiet days: a curtain’s blowing grace,
A potted plant upon my window sill,
A rose, fresh-cut and placed within a vase;
A table cleared, a lamp beside a chair,
And books I long have loved beside me there.
Oh, I have found such joys I wish I might
Tell every woman who goes seeking far
For some elusive, feverish delight,
That very close to home the great joys are:
The elemental things - old as the race,
Yet never, through the ages, commonplace.
(10/31/1877 - 3/31/1969)
“I Have Found Such Joy”








(These are a few joys that I have found close to home, along with a lot of those mentioned in Grace’s lovely poem.)


Tuesday, July 1, 2025

ODDS AND BODS - 7/1/25 - HAPPY FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH



and as this tickled my funny bone.


The kitties are wondering if the rain is going to startup again. We have had a lot of the liquid sunshine in these parts, as well as hot and humid weather.  


I am still a bit tired. How about you? 

Time for breakfast! I think I will start off with blueberries.🫐 


Muffins maybe…


Or this one.


Or something I used to have when growing up, one of my mother’s desserts. I could easily eat this for breakfast.


I love cute and pretty art.


This week I am very much enjoying seeing the bees and loving any bee-art I find…


and butterflies. A different kind of art which I find lovely!


Here is an interesting word below. It is the wrong time of the year for fires, but I find sitting next to a crackling fire very soothing. A memory: I was on a road trip traveling to a family reunion and we were in Canada out in the boonies somewhere. My dear other half wasn’t able to go with us. This was long before retirement and he was working on an important deadline. And so, son and I joined the rest of the family on this wonderful adventure. We had stayed at a small rustic lodge mid-journey, and built a fire that evening, in a fire pit, on a sandy area next to a large lake. Our cabins were behind us. I was the last one to move from the fire. Everyone else had gone to bed. I could have stayed there all night listening to the crackling of those burning logs, and watching the smoke curling up and disappearing into the night sky but, the supply of logs was just about done, getting down to ashes and well, my thoughts were on bears and other night creatures. Finally, and reluctantly, I went to bed. This memory makes me smile and even after all these years, it is very soothing to me. 


After our dinner earlier, the owner of the lodge was going fishing the next day and he told us just to toss the keys on the table where we had eaten the night before. (We didn’t meet his wife as she was visiting her family.) He told us he never locked the doors, that he wouldn’t see us again as he would be leaving early. I heard a seaplane take off on the lake in the wee hours, and assumed it was our lodge keeper.  I was absolutely in awe of his trust in us.  

And this next one should be titled, those were the days…


and while we are on the subject, do any of you have those ring or similar doorbells\security cameras, and what do you think of them?  I am toying with the idea of getting one. I would also like to have an automatic floodlight in a couple of places around the house. I feel, apart from the obvious, if I find myself out there in the dark, I would like to see where I am going and not fall flat on my face. I have a strong flashlight but would like a larger coverage in case a fox or a raccoon is about. Yes, I know they would scurry off into the dark. Anyone who has them, I would love to know what you think. Thanks in advance!


As it’s my birthday month I thought this would be fun. An oldie we all know probably.


This week’s iPad Jigsaw Puzzle I put together.

How about a few wise words?


I am me and what you see is what you get.


…and again, having come across this and how it also tickled my funny bone…


So on that note my dear friends…



I thank you for looking at the whimsical side of me,
and I wish you all a very happy July.








With my thanks to Pinterest for today’s inspiration. 


Thursday, June 12, 2025

ODDS AND BODS - 6/12/25

 Good morning!

And because I know many of us would like another kind of special drink…and to repeat…


Well, now we have that sorted out…I am feeling like I am…


Probably because I am a …


Here are a few beautiful pictures for you. 








How about some fun with food? 




















And a few wise words.




I found this on line and it gave me a chuckle.  The kangaroo is like that cheeky croissant crab above but what a hoot. Love these two!


This one gave me an “Awwwww!”


Now, when I am…


Take very good care of yourselves out there. 
Peace to all!

I am hoping to go to the garden center today.


Isn’t this just exquisite?



I finished another puzzle and I believe I could happily live here. Okay, it is just one of those silly dreams I have.


Thank you for visiting my friends and…














(Thank you Pinterest for the inspiration.)