Happy late-Autumn to you all! We only recently stepped into real Autumn actually, after the longest and most luxurious Indian Summer here, which topped off a perfect Summer season and glorious Springtime. The garden looked beautiful this year, it was a satisfying harvest for most items, everything was lush, we received rain at regularly spaced intervals, and it never got uncomfortably hot. On the health front, I’ve certainly made progress after referral to a more responsive, take-the-reins style doctor and some quality time on a couple of antibiotics. Another pneumonia came on in the Spring, as well as various other ups and downs, several viruses, and the identification of an immune deficiency. That pretty well glazes over it. It’s been a hard, embittering year. I’ve fought tooth and nail to even be this far. Obamacare itself has been my saving grace, and yet our alleged “world-class” healthcare system is a giant obstacle course, broken in many places. When you’re feeling awful, you don’t have the strength or stamina to run through a marathon obstacle course, yet that’s what a patient often must do if they’re unfortunate enough to be a patient. As I said though, I’ve been feeling far better overall than I have in quite a while, and by hook or by crook, that trend must continue.
Let’s move on though; there’s a lot of good stuff that balances out the infuriating crud, so let’s go on and have a tour through that, okay?
Oh right — and the downtime and move to a new web hosting provider did happen a couple months ago. I was shamelessly puffed-up for weeks afterward, because I blindly googled my way through the manual migration of this wordpress blog and database, augmented by my minimal technical “expertise,” and without benefit of handy-dandy migration plugins or other sanity-saving tools (learned about those too late, after the old hosting was already turned off). I certainly “learned a lot” — which is the euphemism that you use, instead of telling people that you nearly murdered your laptop trying to rebuild your wordpress file structure.
Anyway, get ready — we’ve got a lot of catching up to do with the photos! Starting with the succulent, late Spring garden bounty, through Summertime, and into the late Autumn now…
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Beautiful photos….
Thought about you yesterday… and here you are!
All the very best wishes and love to you x
Glad to see you back!! Those are amazing photos…you have been surrounded by so much beauty and also so much to do! It’s good to know you’re generally feeling better in spite of frustrations along the way. Hugs to you! 🙂 <3<3
Boy, am I ever glad to see your post once again. It’s good that you are still seeing beautiful things from behind your camera, and able to juggle that with your garden and med. stuff plus able to find time and energy to blog. As usual, your photos and outstanding cropping I think are stunning. I wish I had your eye and skills.
I could feel in my mouth how tender the early spring lettuce leaves felt–progressing to the basil leaves and mushrooms, so nicely cropped and the approach of cold weather among the aspen trees with a grey chilly sky. Spectacular !!!
Welcome back-missed your blog. Photos are stunning. Garden looks like it was a good one this year. Stay healthy, and come back soon.
Wow! So much beauty! Seeing your photos reminds me why I love being here in this life with all of its fragile tenacity: colors, contrast, cats! Glad you made it through the transitions. You are always worth waiting for. Love and hugs
Hi Deborah!
I love your term, fragile tenacity. That says it perfectly.
You are a gem, thank you for this beautiful comment.
Love
Lindsey
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What wonderful compliments, thank you. It’s all going to my head you know…
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Love you!!
Thank you Isabelle! I hope you are well.
Thank you Snowpeas!! With love to you.
Trish,
Connected across oceans! I love it.