I found a Space Pebble in my library book

So, I was at the library the other day and I chose a book because it had the word "moon" in the title.
Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen.
My sweet little old rascally boy absolutely loves the moon and stars so even though the book was for me to read to myself (and not to him) the title caught my eye.
That evening, with my boy settled in his crib snoozing and my husband settled on the couch watching TV, I settled myself at the kitchen counter with a heaping bowl of Grape Nuts cereal and blueberry yogurt and I began to read Keeping the Moon.
Munch, munch, read.
Read, read, munch.
Suddenly, I stopped mid-sentence & mid-munch.
I'm on page 7 and Colie, the coming-of-age teenager in Keeping the Moon, is eating Grape Nuts & yogurt!

Whoa!
Wow!
Huh?

Maybe it isn't so bizarre as it seemed to me at the time. But, come on, I've never heard of this author, never heard of this book which I picked from the shelf for no other reason than the word "moon" in the title and then as soon as I start to read it I'm eating the very same somewhat odd-ball, health-freak food as the book's main character?
Yes, yes, it is bizarre, too.
But also pretty cool.
And Keeping the Moon turned out to be one of the best reads I've had in quite a while, by the way.

That's bull

Two years from now, this herd may or may not be relocated. A new elementary school is slated for construction here but an alternate site is also under consideration. I don't think these guys really care, though, as long as they've got grass & hay to eat, a full water trough and plenty of room to roam and drop piles o poop.

The sunset stands alone

Though I'm writing a few words here, the brilliance of the setting sun composes its own poem ... at least it does for those able to look into the sky and quietly allow the unspoken beauty to etch an imprint on their souls.
In the early and mid-1990s I worked at a child care center that had a bank of windows all along the front of the building allowing for a wide-open and clear view of the setting sun each day. Whenever the sky offered a particularly spectacular display, I would point it out to the children who would always be duly impressed. Their parents, however, upon arrival to fetch their offspring, had never noticed the beautiful gift set before them as they drove to the center and most -- if given a "heads up" to the setting sun by a child or myself -- didn't care to pause even for the briefest moment to absorb the healing power of nature's wonder.
It baffled me then and it still does...that so few appreciate such a wondrous (and free) display.


Limestone County -- my favorite spot to view the sunset at Holt-Springer & Ezell roads.

Lauderdale County -- right at the spot where the Elk River meets the Tennesse.

Athens -- above the houses right across the street from my house. I took this one from my front porch just before rocking my toddler to sleep. He likes to reach his little hand up and say "kye!"

Limestone County -- Davis Road, where I grew up.

Ditto.