Morocco

Remembering my trip to Morocco last May (and plotting another trip, in my dreams...) I took mostly video clips. Luckily I managed a few snapshots. Don't know what I was thinking. Shopping, mostly. And getting familiar with the camera I literally got the day before I left. I miss the donkeys trotting alongside cars, motorcyclists, bikes; ancient times mixed with modern. And the way they expressed their frustrations loudly, quickly returning to good humor. There was a flow amidst the chaos that was fascinating. I made some good contacts for a trip back there one day, discovered my tribe, and developed a love for Africa that will last a lifetime...

Iosepa

Mother's Day Drive with Tom. We found ourselves in Skull Valley,

a desolate area about 1 hour from Salt Lake City. At a cemetery in the ghost town of Iosepa,

we discovered a sign which read:

IOSEPA SETTLEMENT CEMETERY

MORMON CHURCH CONVERTS FROM POLYNESIA SETTLED

SKULL VALLEY IN 1889-1917, WORKING FOR THE CHURCH-OWNED

IOSEPA AGRICULTURE AND STOCK COMPANY

THEIR SETTLEMENT, LOCATED 1/2 MILE TO THE SOUTHWEST

AND NAMED IOSEPA (JOSEPH) AFTER JOSEPH F. SMITH, THEN

PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH, FLOURISHED UNTIL 1917

WHEN A HAWAIIAN TEMPLE WAS CONSTRUCTED MOST

OF THE ISLANDERS RETURNED TO THEIR HOMELAND.

MANY WHO SUCCUMBED TO THE HARDSHIPS

OF THE LAND ARE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY

Full Flower Moon

The Oriental Poppies

in the front yard are beginning to pop out, just this morning

-on the Flower Moon.

(I love how in tune nature is with itself.....)

Swimming Under the Sky

Today the local community outdoor swimming pool is officially open for the summer. I have been swimming indoors all winter long and have been looking forward to this day for a while.

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I can pretend I am swimming in the ocean, with a dome of blue sky above. One day I will be swimming with the seals at La Jolla Cove again.... Until then, I am relying on the powers of my imagination to turn chlorine into saline.

Hazel & Baxter

Hazel & Baxter have been returning to Allen Park every year for the past 15 years. My neighbors swear it is the same pair each year, anyway.  They have been hanging out in and around the stream in front of my place and are getting ready to hatch another batch of ducklings.  Can't wait to meet them!

Beltane Blessings

"Do you really feel that your young child should be holding a streamer

decorated with flowers that symbolize the female genitalia, running around a pole symbolizing a penis?"

-Wendy Christianpage

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Kindred spirit Saskia Laurent

Home.

The Easter Bonnet

pink moon, pink rooms

Tonight's full moon in Native American lore is known as the Pink Moon, named after the herb/flower moss pink, or wild ground phlox, one of the earliest widespread flowers of Spring.

(An excuse to post these pictures of pink rooms I love.)

Reminds me of :

Veronika Nagy

The Book Specialist

Recently, I have been invited to be the "Book Specialist" at work.  What this actually entails is a bit nebulous.  I think it has a lot to do with making sure books are put back in their proper places as customers don't always seem to be too concerned about this.  Although I work in a retail store, not a library, I can appreciate the way Parker Posey's character in "Party Girl", deals with this issue....  

Venus Light

Venus is in the morning sky, once again.

Apparently she hasn't been visible for awhile.

I hear through the mystic grapevine, that the

Lovely Lady is here to teach us of her

feminine ways (very patiently...)