Opposites

Skyline

She's been too long at the fair!

Sticky

Messing about with glue

Rain

What a prescient choice of topics! It has been raining all week here and the river keeps on rising!

Dance

There's just something about a tutu.

Jungle

I have just returned from the jungle (cloud forest to be exact) and my mind is still reverberating from all the spectacularly gorgeous sights. I had some trepidations about visiting Costa Rica in June anticipating heat but the cloud forest is cool and moist. What a thrill to see monkeys in the treetops and tons of hummingbirds.

Cake

Trust everyone will have a fun and safe holiday weekend. I'll be going to Costa Rica to visit my daughter who is teaching English there.

Sorry

Albert immediately regretted venturing into the clutches of the great beast.

The Devil

A lttle addendum here to my last post concerning the devil. I believe there to be a devil but I believe obssession with devils or even angels for that matter is wrongheaded. I think the focus should rather be on God and we needn't obsess about the other stuff because if you are a Christian "greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world" He being the Holy Spirit. Just wanted to clarify. Thanks for bearing with me.

Angels and Devils

When I was a little kid living in Indiana there was this bump on the sidewalk where the concrete was all crumbled. Some kid told a friend and I this was because the devil was coming out from under the ground. At first we were very excited-Yah,let's see the devil- and tore into the sidewalk grabbing chunks and pounding to see if we could break it up more. Then we got really really scared and proceeded to reassemble the shattered pieces. Who knows if a couple of intrepid 4 year olds had not averted a major satanic eruption. So if you happen to be casually strolling down the sidewalk and you see a bump and it's all sort of crumbly like. You know what's going on.

Fat

My grandma is 98 years old and eats ice cream every day. She says the doctor told her that at 98 she can eat anything she wants.

Robot

My youngest son was into robots. His main thing was scarecrows but robots also had a big place in his heart.

Spots

"They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain" A Peaceable Kingdom vignette here.
So many creatures sport spots - frogs, fawns, bugs. I perhaps chose the most obvious. I trust all who celebrate Easter had a blessed one. "if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed" Alleluia.

Speed

Spring

Kites are fun.

Spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

Monster

Beware of sea monsters.

Feet

For an entire summer my friend Marilou and I went without shoes. Now mind you we lived in a city( we were military brats living in Germany) and that means we walked the city streets, rode on subways, streetcars and buses sans shoes and we're not talking sandals here . We revelled in our calloused, cinder embedded feet as badges of freedom. We could walk on broken glass our feet were so tough. Later Marilou would be deported as a bad example of an American how I eluded that fate I'll never know. Marilou now resides in an abandoned trailer in upstate Maine. She wears Birkenstocks all winter (with unmatched socks I might add) even in 10 feet of snow.

Tattoo

Tattoo of the bubblegum variety- the very best despite its tendency to flake off. The other variety - too much commitment.

Insect

What could possibly be the rationale behind this disturbing practice of attiring one's offspring in insect garb? No doubt naive ill-informed parents claim that such getup is "cute"and see no harm in it at all. But the very young vulnerable child utterly impressionable is apt to develope inalterable insect-like traits after exposure to such invidious stimuli. I have observed several cases firsthand and vouch for the dire nature of this concern.