by Joan Durbin | Jun 30, 2025 | Thoughts from My Day!
Dear Reader, I haven’t written for a few days. Like you, I have been very busy, perhaps too busy. And life moves on doesn’t it? I already understand I sometimes stay busy so I don’t have to process difficult thoughts related to challenging times....
by Joan Durbin | Jun 18, 2025 | Thoughts from My Day!
I just have to write about the mornings after giving due justice to the night. And let me tell you, living out here in the country with Grandmother Tree, and all the different birds and animals that habitat in this area, something always interesting is going on. There...
by Joan Durbin | Jun 10, 2025 | Thoughts from My Day!
This past Saturday night my darling Man, Alan, and I, drove to Bernheim Forest for a night hike that focused on fireflies. Blue Ghost fireflies, or lightning bugs, as we sometimes call them here in Kentucky. I remember as a little girl running barefoot across the damp...
by Joan Durbin | Jun 2, 2025 | Thoughts from My Day!
Once again I was in the right spot at the right time on this beautiful, gorgeous, spring day in Louisville, Ky. A day of blue skies and a sweet, cool breeze. A day that had started out wonderful and would continue to be a great day to be alive. Then I saw them....
by Joan Durbin | May 28, 2025 | Thoughts from My Day!
Spring is here and one of the most odd looking wildflowers has arrived once again in Louisville, Kentucky, the Pasture Thistle. As you can see from the picture above it is pink and full of bristles. The pink blossom itself is soft to the touch. I have often seen bees...
by Joan Durbin | May 21, 2025 | Thoughts from My Day!
Dear Reader, I attended two graduation ceremonies last week. One for my granddaughter Caroline who graduated from the eighth grade, and the other for my nephew Steven who graduated from high school. I thoroughly enjoyed both of them for several reasons. It was...