Dwelling Place, Living Space!

• Dwelling Place, Living Space!
• Life. Style.
• @suntreeriverdesign.com

Sun Birds

Lavender Birds

Fish Swim

Malibu East :: August

• City Delights 11
• Delights USA 22
• Summer in America 16

Malibu East :: July

• City Delights 11
• Delights USA 22
• Summer in America 16

Malibu East :: June

• City Delights 11
• Delights USA 22
• Summer in America 16

Malibu East :: May

• City Delights 11
• Delights USA 22
• Summer in America 16

City Left Behind

The City as Left Behind
Delights USA 5
Summer in America 3

Apple Pie

Five Minute Friday :: Preserve

• Five Minute Friday :: Preserve Linkup

In life events, in eats, in seasons of all kinds, I relish bittersweet. But… as summer subsides, as winter readies to roll in, it's all bitter without a hint of sweetness.

Summer has a reputation for long warm days, casual clothing, informal socializing, and – best of all – garden glory with bright flowers (of course), but even more, peaches, blackberries, strawberries, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, along with a literal plethora of sunkissed leafy greens—O, my heart!

Summer's waning days bring a knot to my gut.

How can I preserve summer not only in memories, not just in pictures or words on a page, but keep and preserve estival delights in physical, earthbound form?

It's almost mid-September. Winter awaits us (or we wait for winter) in the global north. Summer soon will depart, but there's something we can do to preserve summer's sunny bliss.

You can preserve some glorious fruit as actual "preserves!" Do it yourself, buy some at the farmer's market or the grocery store. Gift jars to everyone you know.

When days get shorter [nights longer], summer will be there with you. See smell taste the berries, the preserves. See smell taste saved preserved summer!

The sweet is back!

And in those preserves, trust the promise of another summer when winter's gone.

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• Strawberry Preserves by Bicanski
• Chocolate Cream Cake with Berry Preserves by Couleur

911 23 Years

One World Trade Center – 1 WTC – with reuse rights by Ken Lund on Flickr.
The photographer included some history from wikipedia.

Where were you then? Where are you now?

I couldn't say anything any better than I did for WTC year twenty-two in 2023.

Municipal and liturgical observances have dwindled, but I was heartened to see 911 hashtags trending on Twitter as well as some tweets outside of Critter Twitter that's my main reason for being there.

Where were you then? Where are you now? How are you now?


We are afflicted in every way but not crushed,
perplexed but not driven to despair,
persecuted but not forsaken,
struck down but not destroyed,
always carrying around in the body the death of Jesus,
so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.

2 Corinthians 4:8-10

World Trade Center Transportation Hub by Ken Lund on Flickr

Summer Morning

Too Long at the Fair

Won't you come and take me home?
I've been too long at the fair,
and Lord, I just can't stand it any more.

Written by Joel Zoss
Made famous by Bonnie Raitt