Patterns of Life

Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Cheryl Boardman Monday, April 1, 2024 I saw this saying on a memorial bench in Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver, BC: “The patterns of life are not accidental; there is design and purpose in everything.” I don’t know if...

Saving Face

Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Shelley Schurch Sunday, March 31, 2024 I have always enjoyed meandering through art shows, but only one has lingered long in my mind. It was a springtime student art show at my college, displaying the best of the art students’ work in a...

The Fifteen?

Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Maylan Schurch Sabbath, March 30, 2024 A little over a week ago, passing by a neighbor’s yard, I got a chuckle out of this lawn-edging block. It looks a little like the Ten Commandments—except that there’s an extra hump. So what does this...

Garden Update!

About a week ago in this blog space I showed you this photo (taken March 8) of an ambitious family garden not far from where Shelley and I live. This family has devoted their whole front yard to flowers. I mentioned that as time went along I would show you update...

Clean!

Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Russell Jurgensen Thursday, March 28, 2024 This magnolia tree put on a nice show of flowers and made it feel like clean snow when standing close to it. I thought for a minute about what clean could mean. Maybe if we look at it like a verb...