Zones

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change is gonna come, comfort, health, mood, new year, Zones

I’m uncomfortable in my comfort zone.

Porgie in the pan

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bones, bottom feeders, dinner, fish, kitchen, money, prep, work

If I had money to burn, I’d hire someone to debone my porgies.

 

Men in Lavender

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color, design, Motown, music, My Girl, Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, silk suits, soul, The Temptations

Ah, lavender and tangerine. Love the colors and the fragrances! A few years ago tangerine was the color of the year for designers. Yesterday I was watching a clip of an old Miami Vice episode and a young and tan Don Johnson got out of a car in lavender pants. What looked like a gorgeous, summer-pale, lavender linen. Works for me. Heck, I grew up watching The Temps dance in tangerine suits, and lavender suits with shoes to match! Here are The Temps with lavender pants front and center, in lavender silk some years ago, and a recent photo of them decked out in tangerine in Bakersfield, California on May 8, 2012. Bakersfield photo posted by Doc and Meachie.

 

If I’m not here…

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facebook funnies, here and there, lost and found, okay

OKAY. If I’m not here, I’ll be there. But if I’m there, how can I be here? Maybe, I’m in that place that lost things go, till they’re found. Alrighty then. Have a great day.—Facebook post by Terry Lee, my pal from Kailua High School (reprinted here with his permission)

Nugget

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busy animals, chipmunks, dinner, harvest, nuts, squirrels, tree fun

Hickory nuts drop and knock on the roof. Chipmunks and squirrels forage the bluestone patio.

Poodle Moth

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creatures, fuzzy, insects, moths, Venezuela, wings

Wandering the yard this morning, I found a colorful moth flitting near the hydrangea. My roommate thought it was a butterfly because it wasn’t grey. So I searched moths and this fuzzy wonder appeared: a Venezuelan poodle moth. Photo by Arthur Anker on Flickr.

Swoon

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blues fiddle, fiddle tune, impertinent scarecrows, Irish countryside, Mr. Snotty, sports cars

A fiddle tune sends me over the moon. Here’s a super-fun video set to a blues fiddle tune about an Irish gentleman farmer, Mr. Snotty, and impertinent scarecrows that give him a run. Strings beautifully arranged and played by Christopher Marion, pictured below.

Twitter Twaddle

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bad grammar, grammar, synonyms, teen talk, twitter, vlog topics, Your Grammar Sucks

Talking with my son tonight about entertaining topics for his vlog. We watched a bunch of the Your Grammar Sucks videos. He asked me what “twit” meant. We looked it up. There was twaddle, sitting under the synonym subhead. Twit…Twitter…Twitter Twaddle.

Hello Cow

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a good night, backyard visitor, beds, cows to condos, island living, Kaneohe, Kauinohea Place, morning, only in Hawaii, screens, surprise cow

When I was in high school, I slept barracks-style with my three sisters in a large room with a concrete floor. There was a screened, floor-to-ceiling, doorway-sized opening at the head of my bed, about six inches from the edge of my mattress. No window glass or door, just a screen nailed to the frame. One morning I woke up to a cow chewing grass, about three feet from my head, on the other side of the screen. About ten feet behind him, there was a short rise that fell into a deep valley on the other side. The valley was lush with grass and cows. Now it’s nothing but condos.

Lavender Toes

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bus stop, cattle, central California, chew, feed lot, heat, pedicure, spit

The concrete is covered with a paste of dead bugs, cow dung, and Red Man spit. Between the gunk and my lavender glitter toes lie the barely-there soles of my new gold sandals.