My morning on my deck in black and white. A calico cat. A black, white, and tan dog. The woods. A raku tile. Some plants.
Sometimes I sit on my deck and realize that nothing is ever completely black or white. It is mostly gray and lovely.
~ Juliette aka Vampire Maman
I garden. Daylilies. No it isn’t ironic. It just is what it is. I also grow roses and a lot of other blooming delights too. Cold heart, green thumb (bet you didn’t know that about Vampires.)
From my yard. Enjoy.
Thank you Cee for the wonderful photo prompt. I can’t wait to see what others are growing!
~ Juliette aka Vampire Maman
Last week, it seems like yesterday, and it seems like a hundred years ago, I was at San Miniato al Monte monastery and cemetery in Florence, Italy.
The church was built in the year 1018 with no power tools, and workers who no doubt couldn’t even write their own names. It is beauty from a dark time.
It was an unexpected, moving, and beautiful find.
We (my husband, children and I) expected to find an old monastery at the highest point in Florence. We did not expect to find the huge cemetery surrounding it.
There was not enough time to spend there. I could have spent a week looking at the hundreds of touching statues that spoke of memories, but there by those who loved and those who lost their hearts. So many dates were from the 1940’s. So many were children.
The ghosts lurked far from us, watching us walk through the rain. More than anything we could feel the love and the loss. It is a special place where those who are no longer remembered by anyone now living, are still touching our hearts and souls.
~ Juliette aka Vampire Maman
Bonjourno
A perfect January day in Florence, Italy.
I am home from a two week adventure in Italy, complete with Christmas trees, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” style adventures, and finding those lost shadows, and romance for the soul.
So many handsome men, so many cute dogs, SO MUCH ART.
And coffee. Oh the coffee.
And the wine.
I’ll be posting my stories soon. But I’m back for 2018 with new features, new blog posts, new insights on parenting, relationships, elders, tall tales, and critters.
When we arrived home around midnight this morning we were greeted by rain and the sound of millions of frogs.
It is always good to travel, but it is good to be home.
~ Juliette aka Vampire Maman
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Joy, and Dogs!
This is my dog Alice in Christmas Land. She will turn two years old on Christmas Day – So Happy Birthday Alice.
Alice is exceptionally sweet, loves to cuddle, smart, playful, and funny. Alice also LOVES the two cats who live with her (not shown – the cat in the photo is doorstop.)
Today’s assignment: Hug your dog, your cat, your Vampire, your child, your mom, or anyone you love or like a whole lot.
~ Juliette aka Vampire Maman
Even before the sun came up I could hear the cries of the hawks. Eagles live at the end of the street, but hawks live in my yard. There is beauty in their flight, their voices, and in the way they sit and view their world. I’ve watched nesting magpies, blue jays, and tiny song birds pester the sitting hawks to keep them away from tiny nests and tiny babies. The hawk ignores the small birds. She could easily kill them, but her prey is in the grasses below.
This morning there were no ghosts in the oak woods behind my home. Only hawks, and my dog who is barking at deer. Excuse me, I have to go tell my dog to cut it out.
~ Juliette aka Vampire Maman
