Emily's Place

 Earlier this week, we went to the Emily Couric Cancer Center for Phil's annual checkup.

The building is named for Emily Couric, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2001. She was a senator from Virginia and the sister of popular broadcaster Katie Couric.

• Emily was instrumental in establishing UVA’s cancer clinic, working with UVA leaders to design a centralized, patient‑focused facility and helping secure funding.  Katie Couric helped dedicate the center at its opening ceremony in 2011.
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• They have a cute snack bar.
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• Cheerful walls and pretty artwork.
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This particular painting uses a drip method, which I will never understand.

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• This was on the receptionist's desk.
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• Ahead of us on the way home was this amazing cloud.
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• “Her voice was steady, her purpose bright — a senator with a heart tuned to healing. Where her footsteps ended, hope continued growing.”

  
  

Visions In A Larkspur Yard

 Our next-door neighbors have had this flag out for the summer.

They also have some lovely Larkspur.

Here is Mr. Squirrel on their birdfeeder. Can you see him up high, just to the right?

Here is a closer look.

They also have this lovely plot of Cone Flowers.

Can you spot the Bluejay?

Looking out our door across to their yard, I spotted a new exotic flower they had. I got so excited! Got my camera all ready. And it turned out to be a hummingbird feeder, not a real flower! Rats!

“Larkspur is summer’s handwriting — tall, loose, and full of wonder.”

Summer Living Room

 After posting my summer kitchen things, I thought I would show you the living room. Not near as many things!

I am now starting my fall decor, because it takes me almost a month to do it!

“A living room is a soft place for the day to land.”

Movable Art

 There are more than 277,000 trucks on Pakistan’s roads. Most are vivid showpieces of extravagant design. They are decorated with ornate striping, fishes, peacocks, flowers, politicians, movie stars, and singers.

They wobble along the highways with intricate wooden frames and metal work; bells and pom poms swinging from the undercarriage. For the region’s drivers and artists, the trucks are both a competition and a statement.

Many drivers spend as much as $30,000—more than twice the average annual income—to paint their trucks to make them more beautiful than others. no, I have never been to Pakistan, these are all from the web.

 “Every Pakistani truck is a traveling rainbow with an engine for a heartbeat.”

August 2026

 Happy August everyone! As usual, I am showing my calendar page on the first day of each month.

“August is the month where the sun burns like a candle nearing its wick.”

The Buck

 July's full moon was this week. This one is called The Full Buck Moon. My photos didn't turn out too bad.

“Buck Moon nights smell like childhood: cut grass, porch lights, and the hush before the crickets begin.”

Summer Kitchen

 Fall is not far away, and I have not shown you what I did to our kitchen for summer!

Coffee Corner

“Summer begins the moment you place a shell where winter once sat.”

* I will not be blogging today, as we have to go out of town for a medical procedure.