I started a fight with about a thousand wild roses and a few hundred honeysuckle vines and just a dozen or so large grape vines that were tr...

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A quiz at the Room Without Walls .

Life has been a little crazy recently. Nothing bad, but I am still doing two jobs at work and both of them have become a little more deman...

Who was this man, the salt of the earth? The foundation of each day for me and others? His day was never filled with fire or passion. His da...

This little fellow (a titmouse) showed up on a regular basis over the weekend. He (she?) would stop at the deck chair and look at his/her ...

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

I came down with a sore throat two Sundays ago after spending the two days before holding hands with my favorite little guy who was runnin...

The Painting Contractor Chickie may appreciate these photos. I have the wallpaper guy in all week putting up wallpaper in the front formal...

I have finished planting some portion of the two front landscape beds and I am still fighting a nasty cold, So I decided to rest and watch ...

It appears that everyone likes a free lunch prepared by someone else and also likes to eat outside with a view. (Home sick today, so this i...

According to an article I found on the Internet (the pentultimate location for research information) there are "probably 118 species...

There was so much beauty on that Arizona trip to Sedona that I think I took over 300 photos. I deleted a few, but the natural beauty of ...

There is a bit of tension between those folks who are up bright and early like eager squirrels ready for their daily nut hunt and those wh...

Remember when the Dixie Chicks got trashed for speaking their minds? Where in the h*** was Donald Trump then? The master of the opportuni...

"Everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it." ...or so it is said. (The Parks Ranger said this was a rare...

As a human being I have been told many times to make sure to drink lots of water because it makes skin look better. This directive does n...

I have to admit that I have traveled LOTS and LOTS in my life. I have traveled across the United States, throughout ASIA and even somewhat i...

On some of the days the sky in the desert was an indescribable blue. Have you ever seen such a color? I didn't do any digital tweaking...

I will be leaving tomorrow for my Dad's memorial service. I love him too much to write about this. Most good writers get their feelin...