and since then

in reviewing this page: my last blog of 2010 mentioned the pending birth of grandbaby #2 then: no follow up! I am happy to report here, gentle reader(s), that the beautiful Arden Marie was born on her brother, Finley's, 4th birthday last October in B.C.
I attended this moving and exciting event, which took place at home with the kind assistance of a doula and 3 midwives.
Zipping back to the present, just hours ago I had a great Skype video call visit with Team Parent and the 2 grands as they were winding up their vacation in the South Pacific - bless technology!

blogging - subject matter

what do I blog about? I was recently asked and really had no answer - bloggers are quite rightly focused on a particular topic/subject matter: they write on comedy, visual arts, their children, food, travel, their passions...you get my drift...my problem is I drift...something comes up, a sight, a smell, an idea, a snippet of a conversation...or I take a photo while out meandering and voila: I blog.
So the question made me think (a little) - meantime, combining two favorite topics, photography and food, here is a pic of the most delicious 2-color beet and goat cheese salad I had at dinner Friday night prior to attending a fundraising concert for the Christchurch, N.Z., earthquake relief.