The plant identifier app that I use claimed it King Protea which I knew wasn't right. The photos the app shared were nothing like the flower in my photo.  Thank you for the suggestions Leonie was the first to tell…

Where were we that moment still fresh in our minds? Where are we now and have we learned? What peace do we have, do we offer  to those who died that day to their families and to those in Afghanistan the…

Calling it pretty isn’t enough. Do you know more about it!

Sent to me by Patricia xx The thought above reminded me of   Saint Francis and his teachings- … though when the bee stings me the idea of being a flower fades. Ah to be able to hold good thoughts…

Walking along in Paris two women in front of me caught my attention. Now I am not a fashionista, nor buy fashion magazines so who am I to judges, but I did. The mother and her thirty something year old…

  Paris after sunset. Walking from one end of Paris to the other, or walking from my daughter's apartment in the 10th by Saint Martin Canal to our apartment in the 14th by Montparnasse it is about a five mile…