READY OR NOT - HERE WE COME!
The first day of Spring has come and gone - Winter must pull up her dusty skirts and exit the stage. My Crocuses tell me so. They actually popped their little heads out over a week ago and stood firm against another snowstorm. They remain hale and hardy and are calling to the daffodils which have begun to answer by sending tiny shoots out the check the weather.
I am boosting about having the first crocuses in Eastport this year and so far, nobody has disputed my claim.
I cannot wait to start planting for the Summer.

IS IT A MIRACLE?
Nope, it's just Good Friday in Eastport with the glorious sun battling the wondrous clouds and trying to make a grand entrance. In this very special place I have chosen to be my home beauty like this is quite commonplace. You must always be alert and walk about with your eyes open to receive and to see. My daily dog walks with Duncan are constant opportunities to "discover" new sights.
I think perhaps it is good that Eastport is hidden away here at the end of the world so the world cannot ravage and spoil it. I will be forever grateful to David for giving me this little bit of Heaven. It is so much like my beloved Hawaii without the commercialization and the tourists.

TIME PASSES - THINGS CHANGE.
So much time has passed since I last made an entry. I could not believe this blog has been idle since 2006 - no more!
So many wonderful things have happened in my life. Oh, there were hurdles too, but they were all low enough to clear successfully. I put the house up for sale and I escaped the horrors of South Florida. I moved permanently to Eastport, Maine. Florida had become an intolerable stress factor - too much crime, too many insincere and rude people, too many expenses, insurance fees and property taxes totally out of control. Yet - still they came in droves from the North to the wonderful "SUNSHINE STATE" which only added to the too many people problem. Why can't people understand resources in any area are fixed and limited. You cannot put a quart in a pint container - ever! Well, let them have Florida; I joyfully give up my space which I am sure by now is already occupied by 20 new immigrants.
I am settled in Maine and have almost completed my first winter here. What a pleasure. After so many years in a sub-tropical climate I totally forgot how I missed the changing of the seasons. There are so many wonderful, simple pleasures with which to indulge myself in my newly adopted hometown. Who would have ever imagined the fun of going outside in the early frigid, morning in my pj's to feed the seagulls? Winter is now two thirds past and my bird friends have bonded with me. They home in immediately when I blow my whistle and if I am a bit late on the feeding schedule, they fly about the upper balcony and scold me. I have even seen them watching me through the kitchen window preparing their daily bread crumbs. What a joy my life has become. I must take care to appreciate every minute of it.