Tag: Monday Mood

Mood: Monday


Name that mood!

Lynne and I almost saw the lunar eclipse last night. We were in an area free of a lot of ambient light and spied just the beginning of the lower left edge being covered up. But by the time we were able to get some things done and get back outside, clouds had moved in. No more moon gazing for us.

Lynne owns this print that I shot a photo of so we could get more information about it. We were able to decipher the artist’s signature so I could find him online. Here are the details.

“Hot Summer Night”
Billy Jacobs
watercolor, date unknown

Active in Navarre, Ohio, Billy Jacobs, “whose artwork depicted a simpler time, died May 3 [2021] after a more than two-week battle with COVID-19.”

© Canton Repository


Last night’s moon.

Mood: Monday


Hope, mixed media on canvas
Becky Cochrane, 2000

Our family is thinking of Aaron, who died of suicide on this day in 2012. Each year, I clean up the little garden I keep in his memory. It’s raining, but the garden is a protected bed on our porch. Incense is burning out there, the plants are living, and fresh stones and shells have been added. Several things in the garden are gifts of friends and family.

To meet Aaron was to recognize a beautiful soul, filled with compassion toward others, who could also be playful and liked to hear people’s stories. He loved dogs. He played the violin. He was interested in photography. He liked the band One Republic and The Hunger Games Trilogy and along with those, got me hooked on “The Vampire Diaries.” He’s survived by his parents, his brothers and sister, and many cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends.

So loved all his life; so loved now.

We miss you, Aaron.