The smooth face of a butter-cream surf-sanded shell The marvelous smooth pre-kissed cheek of a grandchild The starfish shaped prints in ...

I just noticed that my last post on this blog was the 1,000th.  Quite the journalistic diarrhea I have going on here.  I didn't notice o...

She rests easy in the dark night sky. Her gentle face reflects the peaceful light of eternity. We are trying to shelter against war, fam...

(Been here and done this...so please be patient with me.) I grab my down coat and pull it over my pajamas and then slip into my plastic c...

I have posted elsewhere (FB and emails) about my days of work recently. The cool fall weather, the dormancy of ticks, and the necessity of ...

Mother Nature never throws anything away. She always recycles. But, we live in a culture where it is considered good for our society to ...

Due to the cooler evenings and my craving for a substantial dinner, I decided to roast a 4 pound chicken for our meal two nights ago. I mari...

This is the second time in a month that our contractor has been blocked from exiting (first time was entering) the lot to work on the pati...

The weather has been so hot and muggy that hubby and I decided we just had to head to the nearby mountains---nearby being a relative term ...

We are now one for one as hubby has retrieved a tomato from the garden and today I get to harvest my patio tomato. These photos should go on...

It has been wonderful to get outside with the little ones. Angel wiggles and tries to fly away in my arms as the warm wind caresses her fa...

The days are now crisp and clean and clear and the sky is children’s storybook blue. Clouds are downy and plump as they drift above. Belo...

We are once again moving more 'stuff' into the house and arrived late. We headed out to dinner once we got here and then returned i...

I can remember a long time ago when the start of summer meant sleeping late and then moving to the hammock outside on the lawn, still in m...

It is now 6:30 in the morning and I have been up for half an hour. I was awakened by the intermittent rushing noise outside, which I, at...

It had started out as a typical afternoon on one of the remote islands of the South Pacific. It was a relatively calm day with coconut fro...

Robert Brady , Claude at Blogging in Paris , and Chancy have all written recently about the pollen or yellow desert dust or air born stuf...