The Summer Day/Mary Oliver

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver/from New and Selected Poems (1992)
Thanks to Kimberly Buchanan for sharing this with me...and with you.

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My Boy Louie Lamour "Lookin' In"

I miss you today and everyday my littlest prince. "Walkies" anyone?
His favorite hour of any day.
RIP Lamour.

My Boy Louie Lamour

This is the anniversary week of my chihuahua, louie lamour's, passage to the other side. We miss you every day here at The Sands, littlest Pumpkin.
xoxo

Kimberly Nichols and I Frolicking in the Pool today at The Sands...couldn't be more Gorgeous!!!

A FlashBack to one window into The Pinto Pony...One day...

Before naming my new and precious chihuahua Billie Holiday I never realized Billie had her own precious chihuahuas...one here...

Ruby and Tove Andvik in the late 70s

My old friend Tove Andvik was just here. I was inspired to dig up some old photos...thought you all might enjoy this one of the two of us...These were in the days that we set up our on photos with tripod and squeeze ball...developed them in our own darkrooms...Fun!

Clean-up Around The Sands...Bouganvilla Leaves...Aren't They Beautiful???