If you Google granny stripe afghan, you can find photos of beautiful, color-coordinated crocheted afghans, many in rainbow hues, and some w...

Parasol mushrooms in the park around the corner, taken with a phone. Mushrooms seem to appear magically overnight with al...

This is my last robin post, I promise!  After three of its siblings had left the nest yesterday, this one final fledgling was left alone.  ...

Picture taken through a window and storm window, so forgive the quality. I have been anxiously watching the robin nest the  last few d...

Quinoa is one of the current darlings of healthy eating.  While quinoa has been grown in the Andes for centuries, most Americans didn...

The bat house has tilted from the weight of the birds. We got home late last night after two weeks away.  I was so pleased to see that...

Happy Mother's Day! In honor of Mother's Day, I want to share this photo of someone with real parenting instinct. A pair of...

I decided to make my mother a hat for Mother's Day this year.  I started out knitting one from a pattern that I like quite a lot.  I us...

If you've read my blog very much, you know I cook a lot of chicken.  Grilled, baked, fried, slow cooked -- if it's chicken, we'...

Ever hear that expression, "cooking with gas"?  I've been cooking with gas in a literal sense all my adult life. Figuratively...

Interurban Bridge With the beginning of some warmer weather, it's nice to get out and about.  Last Saturday, we took a little day...

A very good friend is an accountant.  When tax season rolls around, she and her partner and their staff are always swamped with work.  They...

A year passes so quickly.  Here I am, back to blogging after a full year away.  I left on April 1 and thought a return on the same date wo...

“I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don...

Starbucks.  I have to admit, I don't get it.  Not being a coffee drinker, I have no real way to understand the whole phenomenon. ...

Another shawl, ya'll!  I'm on a shawl kick lately.  The Southernism "ya'll" is because I just returned from a vis...

I am back among the living, having come out of the weeds and the zombie state of an imminent deadline.  After a weekend spent celebrating t...

I have not forgotten you, blogging friends.  I have not been posting or reading blogs lately because I am deep in the weeds on a monstro...

I am in love!  In love with this gorgeous yarn, Serenity Garden.  After seeing a fabulous crocheted shawl on Teresa Kasner's blog , (...