Every summer, this huge, orange fungus springs up practically overnight underneath one of our oak trees.  It's pretty, but I had no idea...

Thank you for the kind compliments about the portrait that our friend, Dan, painted of me.  This morning, I'm going to let you in on an ...

Reverend Douglas Seidel passed away three days ago, early on Saturday morning, October 3.  He leaves behind an army of friends and family .....

Mr. Rogers said, "If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we are and they are, then, I b...

Whenever we visit our friends Jim and Dan, I make sure to remind at least one of them that I will one day figure out a way to make off with ...

You may (or may not) remember when I told you about freezing my tail off in February as part of a garden club crew digging up the plants to ...

Look what I brought home yesterday.     My friend Robert gave this beautiful Victorian fainting couch to me ... it's a family p...

Yesterday was a lovely sunny day, with a high temperature of 32 degrees (0 for our Celsius friends) and a steady strong wind.  Wind chill te...

I looked out the dining room window early in the morning.  The sun was barely over the trees and everything was sparkling with a dusting of ...