A Blast from the Past: Original Art

 Images from a trip to the National Arboretum that I took with my beloved dog, Romeo (2011 - 2023).  Today I received the gift of a painting made from one of these images by my friend, Barbara--who is an artist.

What joy!

"Blessed Romeo"

Barbara's Painting

Romeo RIP

My pain is so deep.

My home feels so empty.

My reason for coming home...

gone.

Too often

with the most precious things

you don't really know

what you have

until its gone...

I understand 

that with time 

memories that are painful today

become treasures tomorrow.

this is my

utterly unrealized

comfort.

This 

is the

burden

and

power

of

Love.

 

I Voted!

One of the sacred things I do. Get up. Get dressed. Walk over to the community center just outside of my neighborhood. VOTE with my neighbors.

Home and time to make a breakfast worthy of enfranchisement.  Romeo can't vote, but he does enjoy a mite or two from such a hearty plate!

Breakky on the Decky with Romeo

 

Happy Birthday, Romeo!

10 Years! 

 

Christmas Breakky

 

The holiday starts with a good Breakky.  

Bacon

2 eggs sunny-side up

sourdough toast

cantaloupe

hazelnut coffee

Romeo gets his own egg--it's Christmas!

Parrot Tulips

And then later someone slept on them...  I set Romeo on assignment to discover who, but he's shedding so much that his fur was everywhere on the crime scene.  Clearly it was obscuring any evidence of the actual culprit...  Oh, Romeo!

 

Romeo Turns Nine!

 

A Revelation: White Borscht

 Made this soup off of a recipe featured in the New York Times Cooking section.  I don't have words.  It was Divine!

Romeo's nose knows a thing most scrumptious when he smells it--alas, no soup for you, my love!

National Arboretum, part two

 From the meadow trails, we drove on over to the Asian Gardens area and were delighted to see that it was open!  We spent our time in the Japanese Woodlands and Chinese Valley.  By now, Romeo was "shooting blanks" but still wanted to pretend pee on everything.  I was still keen on finding flowers.  At one point we traipsed down the switchback walkway to the flood plain along the Anacostia River.  Romeo was eager to see everything, although the hike back up the ridge from the river was an effort at times.  He's such a good boy.

Hey, Romeo!  Are you up for the walk down to the river?  He says, "Let's Go!"

THE ANACOSTIA RIVER

Someone did NOT like that the little dock is a floating "moving!" dock...