Sofa pup
Comfy Lucy
#CoSoDogs

Driving home
Lovely view; dirty windshield

C'mon, copier, it's Friday! Just print already.

@LlamaMountainStudioArts
Good morning!
My San Marzano tomatoes are growing!

Good morning, @Minholkin! Hope you are having a good one. Mountain laurel for you.

Abide with me, 'tis eventide; the day is past and gone. The shadows of the evening flee, the night is coming on.

Nope, I'm really sure I didn't shed on the rug ... why do you ask?
Springtime with #CoSoDogs

The backyard rhododendron

Lucy Lou is my porch-sitting companion.
#CoSoDogs

My JackJack
#CoSoDogs

Fully compassionate God on high:
To our six million brothers and sisters
murdered because they were Jews,
grant clear and certain rest with You
in the lofty heights of the sacred and pure
whose brightness shines like the very glow of heaven.
#YomHaShoah

Close up of the rescued double peony.
Do you say it pea-On-y or pea-oh-NY?
Beauty for @Minholkin who shares beauty with us.

Raccoons are smart. The first week they learned how to unlatch the door on the composter, so I put a locking ring on it.
The ring still gives about 3 inches, and look at the mess two fat trash pandas can make with 3 inches of give on the door! There's not much food visible because they ate it.
So I put the compost in the wheel barrow, pulled the stakes, laid down chicken wire, and created a special barrier in front of the door.
Take that, you wiley racoons!

Fireworks after a Salem Red Sox win tonight!

#FriedmanFriday
Graduation season!
#ElizebethSmithFriedman received an honorary PhD from her alma mater, @Hillsdale, in 1938.
The only time Elizebeth used the title is in an official response to a letter from OSS leader William Donovan.
#MarshallFoundationLibrary

Good morning, @LlamaMountainStudioArts!
What a mess! I have two fat trash pandas getting into my compost; I saw them last night. Tomorrow project will be piling the compost in the wheelbarrow and laying chicken wire down and then restaking the composter.
I want those little guys messing somewhere else soon so they won't be into my garden. Getting into my garden is a good way to become a coonskin cap; my family works hard for that food.

Good morning @Minholkin! A small flower. No, not Lucy, who is not small but might think shes a flower, and kept me company on the porch last night. The peony beginning to bloom behind her. It, like Lucy, is a rescue. I dug it up and moved it from deep shade and it rewards me with lovely pink flowers.
A flower rescue for you today.

#WednesdayWisdom
"I learned ... the urgent necessity of frequent visits. I could sense their reactions and I could see how they felt ... which we at headquarters did not really feel so much."
Gen. George C. Marshall to biographer Forrest Pogue
The first of many visits that Marshall and Field Marshal Sir John Dill made to view training during the war -- Camp Blanding, FL, May 1, 1942.
#MarshallFoundationLibrary

Good morning @Minholkin!
Beauty for you and our community. This spring's daffodils up the mountain at the old homestead.

When art imitates life -- a photo of Gen. George and Mrs. Katherine Marshall at President Roosevelt's inaugural in January 1945; with the same pose on the cover of Katherine's book Together published two years later in January 1947.
#MarshallFoundatonLibrary