Breakfast at the Exit Cafe

Travels through America - a terrific book written by Merilyn Simonds and Wayne Grady - two Canadians traveling from Vancouver to their home in Southern Ontario - a road trip around the rim of the United States.

There's lots more that I wrote about this book on my Reading Diary.

As Time Goes By

We were walking on Eighth Avenue in Calgary when a street photographer took our picture. We'd just come from seeing a movie.

We met at the Hudson Bay Company where we both worked - he in the shipping department and me as a secretary in the Home Furnishing Department

Morning Yoga

The Last Butterfly

From a collection of childrens' drawings, poems, and diary entries from Terezin concentration camp, 1942-1944

The Butterfly

The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing
against a white stone.

Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly way up high.
It went away I'm sure because it wished to
kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I've lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never say another butterfly.

That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don't live here.

Gold Acrylic with black

A Falling Leaf

Stone Soup

A folktale from Central Europe

"How kind," said the tramp. "Won't you join me? I don't want to boast, but they do say my stone soup's be best in the world."