valentine gift

Dorcas gave me a garden sculpture. It's a poppy. The ribbon and tag will come off. Since the ground is frozen I couldn't sink it into the poppy bed. It's in the poppy bed, slid against one of the bricks (which came from the Milton/Lois estate in Kirkwood).

I love this abstract shape. Thanks, Dear! She got it at the garden shop close to Central Market.

Poppies were propogated on our Monterey property by my mother. We left them grow and they spread.

Valentine's Day visitor

Before all your anti-feline feelings get you mad--this is Valentine's Day. The black visitor came unbeckoned. It was not fed. It runs like crazy when you open the door and go out for a stroll.

Don't blame me. I don't know what's going on. They don't, either. I like the shadows on the barn.