This first set is from the street market on Sunday.  These guys were butchering chickens as fast as their knives would go...as one who watched my Dad do this, I was mightily impressed with their knife skills, particularly as they scraped and cleaned the inner parts.   The set below were taken in the beautiful … Continue reading Catching up on Photos…A Variety of Scenes

I battle the not-so-small voice inside that says, “You can do just a little bit more” all the time, even when the body and the other voice say, “just take it easy today”. So the interior dialogue between the doer and the pause command has had a dueling session today. I had every intention to … Continue reading VE Day in France. Monday, May 8, 2017

The three of us, friends since 1958, our freshman year at Willamette joined for lunch at a charming tea room just outside the southern entrance to the Luxembourg Gardens. We were seated two on a settee and one on a chair in the center of the restaurant, with a full view of the pastry case … Continue reading Ladies of a Certain Age…