Road Trip!

I will be going on a road trip to Bend Oregon with one of my sisters today, it's 3 hours from Vancouver Washington and it will be fun. I enjoy hanging out with Carri, visiting, listening to music, and watching the scenery go by. A friend of ours is getting married today and it will be a celebration of love. I will be basting in this celebration, enjoying watching my friend happy and content in her new journey that she's taking on. I will miss my fur buddy, Nicholas as I leave him behind, but I know that he'll be waiting patiently for me to come home. That is a nice feeling. Enjoy your Saturday and remember to say I love you to the people in your life.

Obstalces And Fear

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. ~Orison Swett Marden

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes

Trach To Trachless

Mother's Day and Spring

Tulips

I Am Longing For Spring

Green

I've been sick the last few days. Thankfully, I am starting to feel better... I took this photograph at the public library two weeks ago. I absolutely love trees...

Pocket Full Of Sunshine.

This song says how I am feeling... I just added my photo to it.


"Pocketful Of Sunshine"

[Interlude]
I got a pocket,
got a pocket full of sunshine
I've got a love and I know that it's all mine
oh.oh,oh
Do what you want,
but you're never gonna break me,
sticks and stones are never gonna shake me
oh,oh,oh

[Chorus]
Take me away (take me away)
A secret place (a secret place)
A sweet escape (a sweet escape)
Take me away (take me away)
Take me away (take me away
To better days (to better days)
Take me away (take me away)
A hiding place (a hiding place)

[Interlude]

I got pocket,
Got a pocket full of sunshine
I've got a love and I know that it's all mine
oh,oh,oh

Wish that you could,
but you ain't gonna own me
do anything you can to control me
oh,oh,oh

[Chorus]

[Hook]
There's a place that I go
That nobody knows
Where the rivers flow
And I call it home
And there's no more lies
And the darkness is light
And nobody cries
there's only butterflies

[Chorus 2x]

[Chorus & Interlude]

The sun is on my side
Take me for a ride
I smile up to the sky
I know I'll be alright

The sun is on my side
Take me for a ride
I smile up to the sky
I know I'll be alright

Library

The Longview Public Library... I love the way the tree leaves cover the brick building.

Pictures

Hope

Healing Waters

Snow, Alfred Hitchcock, and Other Musings!

Been watching Alfred Hitchcock tv shows today, I love them so much, though they were on before I was born. It's a stormy day and am sick with some kind of cold. I feel all stuffed up, thank goodness that's all it is. Last weekend, my back went out on me, and now this cold. It's always something, I believe Gilda Radner always said. I happen to agree with this statement.
I am thankful that my mom's home from California after the ordeal she's been thru. I am gratful that the stroke wasn't what it could have been, that her hip is healing, that's she's home, and that she will heal, will take some time. Her stroke brought back memories for me, of Rick. Rick had so many strokes, TIA ones, and full blown ones, and he lost his speech for a time, his hearing, eyesight, and the use of his body on one side. I am fearful of seeing my mom, because she's a vibrant 76 year old woman, almost 77, in 2 weeks she'll have a birthday, and from what Carri and Joy have said its disconcertating to see her in this was, probably for me too. Though, I like to think of myself as a tough woman, I still have feelings that go all over the place.

Zen Walking

Beautiful, glorious day out with a friend, walking in a Zen garden located in Longview Washington...



Buddha!!



Amber and I




The bridge to the garden.



I love trees!!!



The Path...



The sunshine coming through. Beautiful!!!




so Beautiful, this Zen Garden, in Longview Washington...



A beautiful peaceful scene. I love this picture...



The pretty red leaves...


I absolutely love fall colors... Me with the red leaves.


My dear friend Amber Dawn, and me holding a branch up... lol


My souvinirs from my walk with Ms. Amber Dawn...

Into The Woods, I Go

A Resting Place

I met a bird in the doorway of my apartment. I felt bad, because I disturbed him, while he was sleeping. Though, it surprised me that he didn't fly off, he sat there, looking at me. I said "I'm not here to hurt you, I just want to get into my own bed." It is strange, but I thought he understood. I did, get a snapshot of the bird. I don't know what kind he is or even if it is a he.

More!

I posted some pictures that my friend Amber took with her Camera at our girls night out.

Me with a bowling ball...



Amber and I




The glowing Arms!

I-5 Bridge

I got a picture of me finally at the I-5 bridge...