Which animal would you compare yourself to and why? Anyone who knows me or has been a friend for many years will tell you that I am part cat. And they are right on the money. I am certain that felines believe I am one of them because of aspects of my personality and mannerisms […]

My Friends All Tell Me I Am Just Like This Little Critter

Which animal would you compare yourself to and why? This is a really tough prompt for me. I view myself as existing with animals and not comparing myself to them. We walked the Earth as equals so I would have to choose a plant eating animal. And for today, I’m going to go with an […]

Puffy Elephant

After a cloudy, rainy day … … the sun pushed through enough … … to highlight these lofty cirrus clouds … … in an aggressive orange hue. It was an amazing show but didn’t last long. Happy Thursday.

Orange Skies

Watertumblessplashes& cascadesinto the open armsof heavy stonefloating above the surfacecatching onto rapidsthat form a pearly latherflowing down the streamboulder to boulderunder & overswirling & subsidingacross miles of refined siltgauging into the earthmolding mountains& river bottomslanding in the oceanrecycled when it rainsfalling onto umbrellascollected in puddles& stomped on bya child’s foot. Title poem from poetry collection […]

Nostalgia, Naturally (re-post)

We had another beautifully spring-like day today and took a walk at Skaha Lake. Skaha Lake is the smaller lake that’s at the southern end of the city; it’s shallower than the very much larger Okanagan Lake at the north end and is a beautiful swimming and boating lake in spring, summer and autumn. On […]

Evening on Skaha Lake

Copyright ©2026 Deborah M. Zajac. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PLEASE DO NOT USE MY IMAGES WITHOUT EXPRESSED WRITTEN PERMISSION. February 18th we had a good storm blow through bringing lots of snow to the area. Down here in the valley we got a months worth in 24 hours. We got about 6 inches but, up in […]

Whatever Weds. SNOW!