Lemons…. in Life & Perfume.. (and.. a giveaway!)

My darling Posse, You know… for such a beautiful fruit (and gorgeous tree) lemons get a shockingly bad rap.  ‘When life hands you lemons’ ‘_____ is a lemon’, etc, etc .  I thought about the fruit/the rap/the smell when I… Continue Reading

Holiday Yikes! A Goober Giveaway

Posse!  I’m … a goober. So here I am, sitting in the garden…admiring my new fountain…thinking’oooh!  I’ll tell Posse all about it’….um….now?  Because Memorial Day is a MONDAY holiday.  And I am a goober. So.  No post of any real… Continue Reading

How I Met Your Uncle Karl

Funny how things come about on this blog.  Today we’re going to discuss Your Uncle Karl – and how I met him.  This is happening because of the Comfort Zone posts of the past few days, at least tangentially.  Also… Continue Reading

Iris Ayes

Hi, Posse!  Today we’re going to discuss Iris because we’re finally in Iris weather (for me – ymmv).  For iris to work for and on me, it has to be cool/wet; too hot and it feels weird, like the iris… Continue Reading

Coelacanth..and other vanishings

Back in the Jurassic Era(2001), when I was constantly bombarded with PEOPLE & STUFF (born of people) and I would go home to EVEN MORE STUFF (and people) the thing I most longed for was… quiet.  And it always made… Continue Reading

What’s in a Name?

What’s in a Name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet     Well, yes.  There is that.  But once you hear (or see) something named it’s difficult to separate the thing from… Continue Reading