My habit in the morning is to drink my first cup of coffee while standing at the end of the peninsula counter in our kitchen, checking the s...

Hurricane Sandy has moved on.  What a wild storm, with wind and rain and the potential for severe storm damage ... but we are fine.  The rai...

The rains from Hurricane Sandy began overnight, and have been increasing in intensity as the center of the storm aims for landfall soon on t...

Hurricane Sandy is coming.  The weatherfolks on TV and radio are warning that we can expect damaging winds and heavy rain Sunday night and i...

Right now, most of what I am doing during the day revolves around roses in one way or another.  It's always this way in the spring and f...

This is Mac.  He is a beautifully behaved almost-nine-year old gentleman who spent part of the day here on Sunday, on the way to his Forever...

After a dreary, rainy morning today, the sun came out at lunchtime and the sky cleared and it is absolutely a perfect fall day!  While I was...