People – Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to someone dear to me. How did the years go by so quick? Who would have thought this silly song would ever literally apply to us?

How can you be sixty-four?

You still look like the boy I married forty+ years ago.

Peculiarities – Gnarly Wood

I love driftwood and the gnarled roots of trees, aged and weathered into God’s own art. This piece, which I think resembles an octopus, was found on the banks of the Chesapeake this spring. I haven’t found the perfect spot for it, but when I do, ever after, that garden will be known as the “Octopus’s Garden.” I have to credit the Beatles’ song of the same name for the inspiration.