by Trixie | Jun 21, 2023 | Nature, Walks
Delia hiking up hillside stairs, surrounded by spring green on summer solstice. Feels like we’ve been swimming upstream. For a long, LONG time. Today forcing ourselves to walk uphill — outside, on solstice — was a necessary...
by Trixie | Jun 7, 2023 | gratitude, LOVE, Nature, Photography, prayer, Spirituality
Sharing the joy of spotting the most beautiful thing in our patience tree this morning with my wife … … and having her stand on her tiptoes and peer carefully down into it, reassuring me that what I was seeing was just feathers, and nothing to be sad...
by Trixie | May 17, 2023 | Gifts, Homemaking & Housekeeping, Nature
We don’t put up a “Christmas” tree every year, but we really enjoy it the times that we do. Similarly, I love getting ONE geranium to put in this one tall green pot. Every year that we can. One *bright* (preferably NEON ORANGE) plant nestled in by...
by Trixie | Apr 25, 2023 | Candid, Nature, Walks
Gathering butterfly by way of her phone today on a walk she made us take
by Trixie | Mar 18, 2023 | Candid, gratitude, Nature, Photography, Walks
Just turned fifty. Getting up in the 5 o’clock hour on Saturday morning and taking a walk just after sunrise seems appropriate (and super fucking awesome) for us at this age: magical, giddy fun. It’s hard to describe the youthful invigorated surreal energy...
by Trixie | Jan 22, 2023 | Lifestyle, Nature, Walks
Standing outside together in the early morning winter still-darkness, staring up at the stars in a moonless sky. The ladle-down big dipper framed by backyard trees. Blue heron. Kingfisher. Red-breasted Merganser. Delia knows all of their names. Deer, crows and...
