by Kelli Donley | Mar 20, 2008 | Arizona, Faith, Flora and Fauna, Journal, Photography
One of the many reasons I love Holy Week, Spring and Easter is that it is a time to wipe the slate clean and start over. I’m taking an internal inventory this week, coming up with some new life plans and trying to take quiet time to truly listen to my faith and...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 14, 2007 | Flora and Fauna, Journal, June Cleaver
The patio clean up of 2007, BEFORE: Several hours of elbow grease, a good broom, a dozen plants and a couple bags of mulch later, AFTER: It may not appear that big a change, but let me tell you — I went from a dust bowl to a livable space. I am so tickled to...
by Kelli Donley | Apr 27, 2007 | Flora and Fauna, Journal
I once dated a very conservative republican boy who laughed at my hippie ways. We were oddly matched, indeed, but there is something to that “opposites attract” thing. We spent several months bantering, including a time or two when he would turn beet red...
by Kelli Donley | Apr 25, 2007 | Flora and Fauna, Photography, Travel
Spring in Santa Fe, inspired by Jane: ~ak
by Kelli Donley | Mar 13, 2007 | Flora and Fauna, Journal
Spring is in the air in Phoenix. The entire city smells of orange blossoms. Walking downtown at lunch, you are likely to see a gaggle of Spring break high schoolers in bright tank tops and coordinating flip flops stumble past a gaggle of office workers, mumbling under...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 3, 2006 | Domestic Art, Flora and Fauna, Journal
I got home from work recently to find a FedEx box waiting on my doorstep. I tore into it, full well knowing that it was an early birthday gift and I was ruining a surprise intended for later in the month. Patience has never been my strongest quality. I wish I’d...
