My family on the Walters side just weren’t very social critters. I only recall one quasi-family reunion in my life and that was for an aunt’s funeral. My dad had four brothers and sisters who in total had  four children so there is not much of a clan to start with. Dad was the baby in the family, the others were considerably older than him so most of my aunts and uncles died before I reached thirty. The family of my mother’s side were for the most part non-existent. I think during my very early years we lived in a … Continue reading My Clan… Or Not…

I find so many fascinating things to take closeups of. This one is of a simple pond waterfall in our back yard. Continue reading My Mind’s Eye – Water

The Great Sand Dunes National Park is just north of Alamosa Colorado. I guess formed because of it unique environmental conditions. It is a very interesting place to visit. They say the night sky is some of the most wondrous in the country. I wish we had taken the time to see it. Click on any picture below to see an enlarged slideshow… Continue reading Great Sand Dunes National Park

I am one who rails against anyone who insists that I know my place. That is that I keep within my sphere of life. The British have always been more in that mode that we Americans. The Royal Family with all it kings, queens, dukes, arch-dukes and all that is about knowing your place. They are the privileged ones and the rest are surfs doing their biding. I just can’t abide by that. But in some ways we all must come to realize just where we have landed in our society. If you haven’t noticed by now my moniker for … Continue reading I am a TWiG on the Tree of Life…

Let’s go back to the small town of Antonio Colorado for a visit to the home of the town eccentric. Some of us, myself included, are eccentric to one level or another but there are not many people who are … Continue reading Eccentricity is What it is…

I am keeping a daily watch on my two containers of tomatoes. Maybe it is like the old saying “A watched pot never boils”. The plants are absolutely beautiful but there just aren’t many tomatoes on them. Maybe too many frogs and chickens watching them. :) Continue reading Tomatoes, tomatoes…

Time for some more story tellin here. I think it would be boring (at least for me) to try and  tell my story in chronological order so I am gonna skip around some. All my life I have had a hankering to grow stuff and several times during my life flow I have been fortunate enough to do just that.  There is just something about watching something grow from practically nothing into something magnificent. Some of my earliest memories are of Mrs. Forrester’s flower garden on Park Ave. She lived next door to us in a very densely, you might say … Continue reading Growing Stuff..

The 5-foot-4, 100-pound Madison designed the intellectual framework for the Constitution, including federalism and the so-called Virginia Plan — the blueprint that determined the structure of our government that emerged from the Constitutional Convention, with its strong executive, bicameral legislature and independent judiciary. He was a strategist who helped assemble the alliances and map out the plan necessary to the Constitution’s implementation, including the campaign of editorials later known as the Federalist Papers, the battle to ratify the Constitution in the crucial state of Virginia and the passage of the Bill of Rights in 1789. But despite these nation-shaping accomplishments, … Continue reading James Madison, My Hero…

I know the title to this post probably invokes a vision of a complete idiot so maybe I should complete the sentence up front. I try not to think about the dark side of life. That is quite a chore since there seems to be so much of it in the world today. I could tell you what I mean but then I would have to think about it and thus break my own rule… I have vowed not to think about things I get depressed over. I try to only think of pleasant things. I know I sound kind … Continue reading I Try Not To Think…

I found these marbles in the Prairie Museum in Colby Kansas recently.  I lost my marbles years ago… :) Continue reading Have You Lost Your Marbles??

Santa Fe – Museum of International Folk Art I have always been a fan of folk art so when we were in Santa Fe recently we had to visit the Museum of International Folk Art. It was quite a place. … Continue reading Folk Art..

I am trying container gardening for the first time with tomato plants.  Here is a macro-photo of the first tomato hidden deep inside the caged plant.  Hopefully many more will come in the weeks ahead.. Continue reading First Fruits…