Thanks for your lovely Boxing Day note. Nice way to commence the post Xmas Day festivities.

Keeper cover!

Loved Joel McCrea films. Bought this 1955 movie poster last year in honor of my husband’s home town.

Evergreen sign ready for today’s protest in Palm Desert (Palm Springs valley)
#nokings

And they haven’t even read the exhausting exploits of the distaff side of the war efforts.

Here’s the second Monarch to emerge this week from my improvised terrarium in my effort to see some caterpillars make it to adulthood from the milkweed bush here in the desert.

Here’s one recent Monarch butterfly who hatched via my Rush Milkweed here in the desert. You can see a caterpillar in the background.

Photo of early 1900´s Immigrant family in NYC from a 1986 Newsweek special edition celebrating our nation’s history. I counted nine and she probably wasn’t finished.

Bought your book to support Sherlock & Pages. Stunned by “impenetrable rolls of Bergen-Belsen barbed wire” since Tuesday was the 80th anniversary of its liberation by the Brits. Too late for Anne and Margot.
Your prose is rich and evocative.

Enjoyed the bit about duplicate Valentines. Just caught this Dalmatian funny.

Darby the tortie with the sweet broken voice

Not sure if these adorning my new wreath are the same…

That’s me under Darby right now …who magically appears upon detecting a supine body.

@suzannacrampton.bsky.social

First visit to new Agua Caliente Cultural Museum in Palm Springs. Creative, mesmerizing displays of the Cahuilla Indians turbulent history in our vaunted valley.

La Quinta Art Celebration celebrates its autumnal offering under blue skies