It's been rainy and cold all day ... a perfect day to make a pot of soup for dinner.  I felt fairly adventurous as I searched through th...

Two dear friends and I left Virginia at the crack of dawn on Thursday morning, to spend a long weekend at the annual West Coast Greyhound Ga...

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 ...

When I went downstairs first thing in the morning, I saw that one of the cats had been very, very busy.  It was probably Alice ... she loves...

Earlier this week, we had one lovely, sunny day.  I was feeling a bit pent up, so I loaded Ruby into the car and she and I went in search of...

You may (or may not) remember that I was in Sacramento, California, in October for a rose conference.  While I was there, I made a side trip...