Penelope Louise
@nwwoodsygal.bsky.social
Retired education consultant, ordained minister, science and nature fan, reader, writer, traveler, Master Gardener, wife, mom, and Nonnie with a weird sense of humor and a well developed BS detector. I don’t hesitate to block. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Allie…
Garden planning day.
January 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Garden planning day.
“I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you." Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
BEAUTY 💕
BEAUTY 💕
January 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you." Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
BEAUTY 💕
BEAUTY 💕
My Sunday art pick is this gorgeous piece titled ‘Edge of the Woods', by the inordinately talented UK wood engraver, Monica Poole.
I mean WOW 🤩
I mean WOW 🤩
January 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My Sunday art pick is this gorgeous piece titled ‘Edge of the Woods', by the inordinately talented UK wood engraver, Monica Poole.
I mean WOW 🤩
I mean WOW 🤩
Good morning from the Port of Angels
January 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Good morning from the Port of Angels
Saturday muse: the older I get, the more I think the secret to any good relationship is letting yourself be the world's biggest weirdo and then finding all the others who delight in and match your weirdness 💕
Flying my own little nerdy flag high today 😎☮️
Flying my own little nerdy flag high today 😎☮️
January 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Saturday muse: the older I get, the more I think the secret to any good relationship is letting yourself be the world's biggest weirdo and then finding all the others who delight in and match your weirdness 💕
Flying my own little nerdy flag high today 😎☮️
Flying my own little nerdy flag high today 😎☮️
My Saturday art pick is titled ‘Self-Portrait in Semi-Abstract Style, c. 1946-1952’ by US poet Sylvia Plath.
I believe art should make us feel all emotions, both the light ones and the darker ones. Sylvia Plath was a master at inviting us into the shadows through art and her written work.
I believe art should make us feel all emotions, both the light ones and the darker ones. Sylvia Plath was a master at inviting us into the shadows through art and her written work.
January 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
My Saturday art pick is titled ‘Self-Portrait in Semi-Abstract Style, c. 1946-1952’ by US poet Sylvia Plath.
I believe art should make us feel all emotions, both the light ones and the darker ones. Sylvia Plath was a master at inviting us into the shadows through art and her written work.
I believe art should make us feel all emotions, both the light ones and the darker ones. Sylvia Plath was a master at inviting us into the shadows through art and her written work.
Remembering the legendary David Bowie.
He left us back on January 10, 2016, at the age of 69.
He left us back on January 10, 2016, at the age of 69.
January 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Remembering the legendary David Bowie.
He left us back on January 10, 2016, at the age of 69.
He left us back on January 10, 2016, at the age of 69.
Wayne was beginning to think that the Fortune Cookie might have been wrong after all...😆
#garylarsonstrikesagain
#garylarsonstrikesagain
January 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Wayne was beginning to think that the Fortune Cookie might have been wrong after all...😆
#garylarsonstrikesagain
#garylarsonstrikesagain
“We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.”
Except from The Island of Knowledge by Marcelo Gleiser
Except from The Island of Knowledge by Marcelo Gleiser
January 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.”
Except from The Island of Knowledge by Marcelo Gleiser
Except from The Island of Knowledge by Marcelo Gleiser
Crescent Dragonwagon’s amazing Mushroom Barley soup for tomorrow 👍👍
You can find this recipe and many more in her excellent Soup & Bread cookbook.
You can find this recipe and many more in her excellent Soup & Bread cookbook.
January 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Crescent Dragonwagon’s amazing Mushroom Barley soup for tomorrow 👍👍
You can find this recipe and many more in her excellent Soup & Bread cookbook.
You can find this recipe and many more in her excellent Soup & Bread cookbook.
"To live in this world
you must be able to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go."
Mary Oliver, excerpted from the poem, In Blackwater Woods.
Ahhhh
you must be able to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go."
Mary Oliver, excerpted from the poem, In Blackwater Woods.
Ahhhh
January 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"To live in this world
you must be able to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go."
Mary Oliver, excerpted from the poem, In Blackwater Woods.
Ahhhh
you must be able to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go."
Mary Oliver, excerpted from the poem, In Blackwater Woods.
Ahhhh
Today, in light of all the CRAZY going on in this world, have decided to offer a FREE mini-workshop that has been proven over and over to change lives, rock worlds and manifest the desires of your heart.
Ready?
#1. Give thanks.
#2. Repeat number one.
Ta DAH!
End of workshop.
Ready?
#1. Give thanks.
#2. Repeat number one.
Ta DAH!
End of workshop.
January 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Today, in light of all the CRAZY going on in this world, have decided to offer a FREE mini-workshop that has been proven over and over to change lives, rock worlds and manifest the desires of your heart.
Ready?
#1. Give thanks.
#2. Repeat number one.
Ta DAH!
End of workshop.
Ready?
#1. Give thanks.
#2. Repeat number one.
Ta DAH!
End of workshop.
I’m using the pruned branches from our orchard to make an old fashioned wattle type fence around my vegetable gardens. It needs to be refreshed every 4-5 years, but I like doing it and how it looks…
January 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I’m using the pruned branches from our orchard to make an old fashioned wattle type fence around my vegetable gardens. It needs to be refreshed every 4-5 years, but I like doing it and how it looks…
Happy Spirit Birthdays to Har Gobind Khorana and Ms Simone de Beauvior. Thank you both for changing my world, and expanding my mind.
And BIG living Rock Star Happy Birthdays to Jimmy Page and Dave Matthews--you each make my ears happy and my toes tappy.
And BIG living Rock Star Happy Birthdays to Jimmy Page and Dave Matthews--you each make my ears happy and my toes tappy.
January 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Happy Spirit Birthdays to Har Gobind Khorana and Ms Simone de Beauvior. Thank you both for changing my world, and expanding my mind.
And BIG living Rock Star Happy Birthdays to Jimmy Page and Dave Matthews--you each make my ears happy and my toes tappy.
And BIG living Rock Star Happy Birthdays to Jimmy Page and Dave Matthews--you each make my ears happy and my toes tappy.
The inability to stop thinking about something despite efforts to dismiss it from your mind is called PHRONOSIS.
Just “looping the loop” over here.
Just “looping the loop” over here.
January 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The inability to stop thinking about something despite efforts to dismiss it from your mind is called PHRONOSIS.
Just “looping the loop” over here.
Just “looping the loop” over here.
From Anne Lamott:
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and do the right thing, the dawn will come.
You wait and watch and work and you don’t give up.”
I’m in for the long haul…
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and do the right thing, the dawn will come.
You wait and watch and work and you don’t give up.”
I’m in for the long haul…
January 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
From Anne Lamott:
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and do the right thing, the dawn will come.
You wait and watch and work and you don’t give up.”
I’m in for the long haul…
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and do the right thing, the dawn will come.
You wait and watch and work and you don’t give up.”
I’m in for the long haul…
“Bibulous boob”might be my new favorite aspersion to cast. 😎
January 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“Bibulous boob”might be my new favorite aspersion to cast. 😎
Another Wednesday art pick: a gorgeous Mid Century woodblock print by William Rice, who is a favorite of mine.
January 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Another Wednesday art pick: a gorgeous Mid Century woodblock print by William Rice, who is a favorite of mine.
Might be time to dust these off for a revisit…
January 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Might be time to dust these off for a revisit…
Morning
This wise council comes from the magical poet and writer, Mark Nepo:
"Now there is nothing left but to keep dancing.”
This wise council comes from the magical poet and writer, Mark Nepo:
"Now there is nothing left but to keep dancing.”
January 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Morning
This wise council comes from the magical poet and writer, Mark Nepo:
"Now there is nothing left but to keep dancing.”
This wise council comes from the magical poet and writer, Mark Nepo:
"Now there is nothing left but to keep dancing.”
l like this thought for today:
“May we open to a deeper understanding and a genuine love and caring for the multitude of faces who are none other than ourself."
Wendy Egyoku Nakao
“May we open to a deeper understanding and a genuine love and caring for the multitude of faces who are none other than ourself."
Wendy Egyoku Nakao
January 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
l like this thought for today:
“May we open to a deeper understanding and a genuine love and caring for the multitude of faces who are none other than ourself."
Wendy Egyoku Nakao
“May we open to a deeper understanding and a genuine love and caring for the multitude of faces who are none other than ourself."
Wendy Egyoku Nakao
Kalaloch Beach, WA.
PNW vistas ❤️
PNW vistas ❤️
January 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Kalaloch Beach, WA.
PNW vistas ❤️
PNW vistas ❤️
This for today:
“Where articles of belief threaten to set people in opposition to one another, we may yet choose to embody articles of peace." JOHN MURRAY
“Where articles of belief threaten to set people in opposition to one another, we may yet choose to embody articles of peace." JOHN MURRAY
January 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This for today:
“Where articles of belief threaten to set people in opposition to one another, we may yet choose to embody articles of peace." JOHN MURRAY
“Where articles of belief threaten to set people in opposition to one another, we may yet choose to embody articles of peace." JOHN MURRAY
My annual January recycling thing:
Making envelopes from old calendars 👍
Fun to make, fun to send and, I hope, fun to receive.
Making envelopes from old calendars 👍
Fun to make, fun to send and, I hope, fun to receive.
January 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My annual January recycling thing:
Making envelopes from old calendars 👍
Fun to make, fun to send and, I hope, fun to receive.
Making envelopes from old calendars 👍
Fun to make, fun to send and, I hope, fun to receive.