"Same Gender Loving People - No. 5754"

"Love Is Beautifully Human..."

Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So every day, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.

"This Made Me Smile..."

Ego Rodriguez

"Gay PDA Is Okay..."

PDA: Public display of affection

"I Am Always Remembering..."

Although what is to come after the holidays seems bleak and foreboding, never forget how far we've come... 

We will not go back into the darkness

"A Little Christmas Cheer..."

"The Truth About Love..."

When love is reached through suffering ... it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

- Anne Rice

"The Views To Love..."

"The Artist's Corner..."

Brendon Sanborn

"Same Gender Loving People - No. 5753"

"Every Season Belongs To Love..."

Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So every day, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.

"Just For Fun..."

Those darn algorithms are getting just a little too specific...

"The Views From Home..."

The garden is deeply asleep in its winter slumber, but according to Husband, that's no excuse for it to not be beautiful around our home

These are some of our winter decorations

Husband is very talented, he was a professional gardener for more than 30 years with many notable clients

This is a view from the gazebo in the back garden

My favorite spot in the back garden

On an unseasonably warm day, you might find me sitting here remembering the summer's blooms

Most of the decorations are illuminated

Soon, I'll post some night photos

Yes, the grass is still that green... it's been very slow to enter its winter dormancy and I've toyed with cutting it one more time

Our home in the woods* is ready for Christmas and the long winter yet to come

* We live in the City of Detroit proper... "Home in the woods" is an homage to the name of our subdivision (Russell Woods) and to my mother's birthplace of Itta Bena, Mississippi whose place name is derived from the Choctaw phrase "iti bina," meaning "forest camp" later anglicized to "Home in the Wood"

"A Little Holiday Cheer..."

This hauntingly beautiful performance from the past comes to us just as my parents might have heard it on a talking machine a couple of generations ago...

My parents were both born and raised in the rural countryside over 100 years ago and they witnessed the arrival of the modern era. Many times during my childhood they described a world of horses and wood fired stoves and their seeing cars and electric lighting for the first time. One of my favorite recollections of my mother was of her parents first encounter with a "talking machine." 

Just before the outbreak of WWI, on a trip into town, the general store had a Victrola on display playing a recording of a sermon and my grandparents bought it on the spot and brought it home to the farm telling the family they'd bought a "preaching machine." When my mother's older sister came in from fields, she informed everyone that you could buy different records including music and everyone was further amazed! I myself marvel at the changes in just the last 20 years since Mother's been gone from this Earth.