Karl took photos of the thistle that grew in our lily garden last summer.
Category: Photography
Bloganuary Prompt for January 29, 2023
What is something you learned recently?
I love to learn, and learn more every day. Today I would like to share a few photos by Karl, who helped me begin here some time ago.
Lake Michigan – Oostburg, Wisconsin
“A blustery day, light reflecting off the water.”
March 18, 2021 – Photo and words by Karl
Garden Journal
August 15, 2019
Photo by Karl
Kohler-Andrae State Park
Sheboygan County
Wisconsin DNR
September 21, 2021 – Photo by Karl
Kohler-Andrae State Park
Lake Michigan
August 23, 2019 – Photo by Karl
sometimes many years
What are the pros and cons of procrastination?
Bloganuary Prompt for January 27, 2023
sometimes
many years
needed to write
a poem
in a few minutes
December 2014 and November 2021

Language
What language do you wish you could speak?
Bloganuary Prompt for January 26, 2023
reading haiku
all the places we live
all we have in common
I was reading from Haiku Society of America members anthologies, and posted my haiku at Poems For Bulletin Boards last year.
As I wrote here, “I studied French when young, from 6th grade through the beginning of college at UW-Madison. I remember singing carols in French” (December 24, 2014).

Light and Seasons
What is a song or poem that speaks to you and why?
Bloganuary Prompt for January 25, 2023
summer evening
quiet music and
a few Psalms
new evergreen growth
still in the sun
The day is thine, the night also is thine:
thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
thou hast made summer and winter.
Psalm 74: 16-17 (KJV)
Post from July 28, 2022
Many verses from the Psalms – the light and seasons today.

Three Poems
How do you show love?
Bloganuary Prompt for January 24, 2023
another year
has passed since
my mother’s passing
I sit and quietly read
a book she would like too
January 23, 2018
You can also read another year: large print at Large Print Poems.
country cemetery
trumpet vines
growing taller
than the gravestones
July 22, 2011
Time Of Singing, 2012
autumn leaves
the caregiver finds time
to rest
“autumn leaves” was the Daily Haiku for August 14, 2019.
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog


Home
What irritates you about the home you live in?
Bloganuary Prompt for January 20, 2023
I have been watching the Craft In America series on PBS. Many artists, art forms, cultures, and places. I enjoy the conversations, how crafts are preserved and passed along to new generations, and seeing the creative work spaces.
There have been a few times when we lost power over the years, and Karl bought generators and battery-operated lights. This year, there was one evening when our energy company asked customers to conserve – for example, turn the heat lower and no gas fireplaces – and all was stable and back to normal soon.
Shelter, heat, water and even internet – so here I sit with a new post! In our old home that began as a cottage in the 1940s, and reflects the work of many people.
