Disappointing, but hardly surprising, sadly. So many voices, for so many years, silenced by societal foolishness.

We watch things via streaming, but it's never reduced us adding to our DVD/Bluray collection.

What a lovely painting!

We did -- and boy, there is nothing like a fresh tomato from the backyard garden! The flavor is just amazing.

So do I! Local drought was hard on our tomatoes this year.

Chestnuts were everywhere, when I was in grade school; you could gather them as easily as you can gather acorns today; today there are none. Much like the Dutch Elm disease that wiped out the large elms that once shaded Main St in my hometown, the blight changed the entire ecosystem. 😢

This image makes me incredibly nostalgic for the late, lamented American Chestnut trees of my youth, long since gone due to the arrival of chestnut blight in North America.

My anise hyssop is like that -- the bees go crazy over it while it's blooming, but the spent blooms shatter. After the wind blows the seed all over the yard, I spend the next spring pulling out stray seedlings.

Thanks for starting my day with a grin!

I'm tearing up. It helps so much to see that there is still so much kindness in the world.