Today Charles turns 34. To celebrate, I've offered to make him a 3-course dinner this evening; of which, he took full advantage in his menu requests: Appetizer: Lemon Garlic MusselsMain Course: Crab Cakes and Seared Scallops with a side of Rice Pilaf and GreensDessert: Sweet Potato ...
Sunrise Sunflowers at Mckee Beshers
Every year, sunflower fields bloom in July. And every year, Charles and I make our annual pilgrimage to see them in their natural habitat at plentiful fields of Mckee Beshers Wildlife Management Area in Poolesville, MD. Typically during golden hour before dusk. But this year, we decided to get ...
Little Happenings :: Summer 2020
The summertime sadness was too real this season. But here I figuratively stand. Somehow still hopeful and finding ways to thrive in spite of the daily, distracting, heavy pounding reality of well... Everything that has or hasn't happened so far throughout this year, 2020. I found myself reverting ...
Mixed In America: Loving Day
Today Is Loving Day. An annual celebration held on June 12, the anniversary of the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia which struck down all state anti-miscegenation laws (legal laws that banned interracial marriage and intercourse) remaining in sixteen U.S. ...
Self Portrait Sunday :: Barber Wife
We have officially entered the 2 month mark of "stay at home orders" for Virginia. But while most of the state is embarking on Phase 1 of re-opening up as of last Friday, the Northern Virginia area is delayed until May 28th since it's much more densely populated. I mentioned in this post, that for ...
Blate @ Beetlecat, Atlanta
Blate (n.) a social appointment or engagement with bloggers. (not an official Webster's Dictionary term but I feel like the general blogworld would be in consensus with the definition above) Since I started blogging *counts years on fingers* EIGHT years ago (wow, time has flown), I’ve been ...