On the last day of my recent hiking trip to West Virginia, one of my hiking shoes decided to throw off the rubber sole plate. My whole from...

Finding some uninterrupted afternoon time I sat and opened the scrapbooks and as requested took some photos for the many, many readers and l...

It seems that readers of my prior post are somewhat masochistic...so lets take a tour of this old trunk. I opened the heavy trunk lid and on...

I left my childhood home heading to Hawaii first and then on across the Pacific years later, so many years ago, that many of the memories sa...

Each of these photos was taken in the good old USA except for the hot pepper sign which was taken in Puerto Rico and the 'stuff' sig...

Retired and being in a rut can happen quite easily I think. It was time for us to try something challenging...at least challenging to two o...

It is that time of year when the river's bounty is providing us with seafood for enjoying during the cold winter months. My kitchen sme...

Interesting plant in the photo above, no? Go ahead, take a guess and identify this common (rare in my garden) flower. Those rare, fringy, ...

When she first looked out the back window at the river that sunny summer morning the view seemed strange. There was too much space. Then s...

" Road Trip " Just whisper those words and hubby has bags packed and the car out of the garage in seconds. Since his retirement ...

I received some lovely comments on my prior post as it touched a chord in some readers. The reason it touched a chord is that we are all on...

Tabor decides to eat the leftover pancakes and remaining strawberries with honey for breakfast. (Tushar has only a dollar for food today so ...

Am I the only one who wonders about wildlife like this when the 4th of July comes around? The very first explosion sent two geese (this pho...

I am heading out to dinner at the 'summer' house of the head of a unit that I worked with in a prior life and for whom I had a miser...

I found these hungry caterpillars munching on the parsley in the garden the other day and asked hubby about them. He said he had decided t...

A number of years ago Oprah was promoting the use of a personal journal in which we recorded all the things in our life that made our lives ...

In dealing with Mother Nature I have learned that it is all about balance. Having been both a wife and mother I think I understand about ba...

My grandson came to visit last weekend (Father's Day) and it seemed that all of the reptiles in our yard wanted to make his visit compl...