Rose’ Anyone?

If you like a rose’ wine on a hot summer day this is delicious.

Bleu de Mer Rose … Aromas of watermelon and tart cherry. Bright berry acidity gives a crisp, mouthwatering finish.

Bleu de Mer

Choose Wisely

Food for thought:
“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”

― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

Grayceful

I found this on my way to an appointment that I was already late for, because I found more art before this. Chances of rescheduling the appointment –…

Grayceful

Sustainable World

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people.

But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind.

It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane.

And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”

– David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

Mystery author of “Rainbow Bridge” comes forward.

Cold Brew

With the hotter weather many people find themselves switching to cold brew. Doing my morning reading and this was in the Axios newsletter and included this recipe from NPR.

Waiting

I feel like I’ve spent so much of my time in the last 2½ years waiting. Much of it revolving around the never ending pandemic. From the initial shut down in 2020 to the subsequent waves of variants. Each season a new kind of wait…for better weather, for lower new case numbers, to lower hospitalizations to happier and healthier times as a nation. Meanwhile life marches on and we all continue to wait in many ways every single day. I ran across this quote the other day and it stuck in my head.

“ Waiting is also a place, it’s everywhere you wait.”

Margaret Atwood.

Earth Day 2022

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Green Globe On Moss – Environmental Concept

April Days

“The sun was warm

but the wind was chill.

You know how it is with

an April day.” -Robert Frost

Longwood Gardens

Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossoms are in peak bloom in Washington D.C.

This year’s peak bloom coincides with the very beginning of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, which runs from March 20 to April 17. The blossoms can remain at peak bloom for up to a week under favorable weather — namely, light winds and no precipitation. Petals fall off more quickly if there’s rain, snow, frost, unusually warm weather and/or strong winds.

Image from National Park Service