Shh? No! Speak up!

For my thoughts on peace, click here to read.

May each one of us make an effort to set an example of peace, to influence those growing up, to remember that peace is as much about accepting differences as anything else.

Yes, some of you have seen this one before, not sure if you saw it cropped though. That is Leon in those jeans behind the tulip.

Happy Anniversary, Leon. . . You survived 33 years with me (well, on the first, you will have.) So, I suppose congratulations on your patience are in order, too, but I will leave that up to the others to say.

I MAY have posted this before, but computer woes continue and I can’t even scan one in because I broke my CD drive so can’t load the software for the new all-in-one. So, since I LOVE this photo anyway, I am posting it. Taken on the Bremerton to Seattle Pugent Sound Ferry on a gorgeous day last year. That is an industrial area in Seattle in the background. (But don’t tell anyone, after all it always rains in Seattle and the surrounding area.) Enjoy!

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This is the only photo I had sitting on my desktop — so the only photo the computer will let me have — my hard drive has been stretched to its limits apparently, and in the process of trying to transfer a few more photos to a flash drive in preparation to taking them OFF my laptop — I managed (with help from Murphy’s Law and Computer devilment??) to now have my photo program show ZERO photos — yet the library held in my pic album still shows more gigs of photos than I care to admit I even took! So, the good news is apparently photos are still hiding in my laptop, the bad news is even when I tried to open one really small photo file, it strained my computer so much it caused my desktop to go blank for a few moments! And I won’t say I have about 500 more photos to go through still sitting on my camera. . . Thank goodness I recently backed up my entire computer. . . That is the only thing saving me from panic!

I suppose it is time to trust the flash drive and take my novel and a few other things completely off the hard drive. . . and the few photos I had transferred, if I can ever get to the photo program through a back door or something. (Hold my hand!) Here goes. . . .

So, isn’t that the perfect photo to post today, calming nature!!! I will catch up reading everyone’s blogs, soon!

Mom loved flowers and rarely could afford to plant them. She would have loved the tulip festival and purple was one of her favorite colors. Today, still Tuesday, would have been her birthday. Funny, as I posted this I remembered that she went from being a classy dresser in her younger days to a lover of bright colors. I love that she was never stagnant and like these tulips gained strength to push through the hard soil, she grew stronger as she grew older.

Here’s to moms everywhere!