Saturday, September 30, 2006

She loves graphics and designed this herself......
Younger daughter......

In the uk the book Giesha has been
very popular...
Also most things Japanese....



Prayer for Israel




Monday is Yom Kippur....

Those of us that are Chrisitians are told to Pray for Jerusalem.....

Exobus





I was fortunate to visit Israel in 1999 when things were not so fraught.
My older daughter and I stayed in Netanya in an older hotel on the beach.
This is a site to help the Jewish people from the North
of Russia back to their homeland.
this site in the uk.
www.exobus.org

Friday, September 29, 2006

Yuko One of My favourite sites




This is just one of my most favourite sites..

Yuko is just amazing...

She started composing music @ 9 yrs I think.

There are many of her original compositions here

Also some well known pieces.

One is paticularly moving:

Her composition after Twin Towers......



My garden







Hopefully this will put you onto my garden page:










This is my old blog;






The pics of my pebble garden are @ the bottom of the page when you scroll down.



Helen Keller





Both my girls work with the blind deaf

and autistic. Hence my interest in Helen Keller.

Such a marvelous story and role model.

Somehow today we don't seem to have these

people with such strength of character.

Also the guardians who sacrifice in such ways......

A website for your interest.....



Tarrytown Tea shop





While visiting Tarrytown ny On a very wet October

afternoon. I came across the 'Silver Tips Tea shop'

It was really pleasant. The waitress being concerned about

her husband who was an airline pilot in Florida.

He was there during one of the hurricanes....

The 'Red Hat Society' also meets there. It is fun all

the ladies as you can imagine wear 'Red Hats'....

I enclose their website: www.silvertipstea.com

'Baby Betty' Bettys Tea Shops....




Tea Shops...

I have always loved tea shops.

One of the most famous in the ukare' Bettys'.

They are all in Yorkshire.....

On the right is a picture of 'Baby Betty'.

She is thought to be who the teas shops are named after.

I will enter their web page here: www.bettys.co.uk

I hope you enjoy as much as I have......

Past Longings


The clock on the wall is somehow silent

since you left the dying embers no longer dance

into flame anymore now that you are gone.....

Frost laden branches on panes of glass cast dappled

shadows upon stone floors...

Reflections in a symphony of dance to

your memory....

Pebble Beach


Today the girls and I went down to the sea.

As we got to the shingle beach, the tide coming in

brought with it huge waves in unison.

Looking... we found small rock pools, dipping out toes

the water icy cold suddenly we saw them, hundreds of

tiny shrimpspink.....

Around us seaweed clumping from the rocks

The girls darted off piling pebbles one on top of another

making small gullies in the sand; where water seeping

past stones that formed bridges and tunells "fortified"

Look mother they called'Our castles in the rock'.