A State of Mind

Category: My Place

  • The Thing I do Best is Now the Thing I Do FIRST

    Shifting Priority I have decided to change my priority without worrying about inferiority or the ways of the majority. No longer will I pretend to put domestic concerns ahead of my life’s purpose — Writing! Back in the day any writing I did was secondary, or confined to the secretary’s desk. For a housewife back then…

  • More Tree Garden Gallery…

  • Tree Garden Gallery

    WELCOME TO MY TREE GARDEN

  • Cycle of Red

    CYCLE OF RED Maple tree dressed in Red remember the warm days of Fall dream forward to Spring when new buds have unfolded and Green leaves look forward to Red.

  • Ice on the Water Dish, Frost on the Cat Shelter

    Yep, it had to happen…just not quite so early.  Well it IS Northern Ohio, and anything the weather people come up with is no surprise.   But golly, it’s only October 19…which is my grand-daughter Gina’s 19th birthday. But we always have a frost (not to say freeze) in late October…just enough to smite the foliage…

  • My Place: THE GARDEN

    [This piece was originally written about five years ago, and has languished since in my DRAFT file.  I am posting it today because I don’t want to lose it into cyberspace.   This is the same garden, I call it the “tree garden” now, because the young trees mentioned herein are now maybe a 70 feet…

  • The Great Cat Caper, Shelter Edition

    Getting the Cats and Building the Shelter: We have a big feral cat population here in our neighborhood, or I should say more accurately we DID have a problem number of cats last year.   Originally there were three kittens dropped off by some inconsiderate person in our front yards.  They disappeared for a year or…

  • What’s New at My Place, in photos

  • Photographing the Invisible–Year of the Spider, Part Two

    This is how the web looked during the end of the construction phase. Obviously she wants to ward off visitors until she is ready.                                                                            Almost ready to welcome visitors. [ All photos and other content in my blog, Sometimes are original to me, Gradmama2011 …and remain my property under copyright laws.]

  • The Year of the Spider

    [These photos are of spiders at work in my tree garden.   As far as I know, the spiders in the first and third photo are NOT the same.     For all my spider enthusiast Readers out there–I have more spiders and webs to show you in another post.      All photos and other content in my blog,…