Just before I start my North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida travel reminiscing posts, I am feeling the need to post a little bit about my li...

Returned from my cool spring days visiting in Florida. Weather was in the high 40's to high 50's and only hit the 60's on one d...

Before we left for Florida I got to spend snow time with my two most favorite little munchkins.  One child loves the snow and we couldn...

I am in Florida trying to thaw my frigid bones as this post is being published.   It seemed that almost every weekend that we headed into...

I was trying to remember how I felt about my appearance when I was in my twenties, just married, and not bogged down by the demands of small...

Some people say that statistics lie.  Depending on how they are presented, they can frequently tell more than one story.  The same is tru...

Do you ever wonder if we truly have only a finite number of heartbeats in our magnificent body? Do you wonder if you had started writing po...

This photo is not the mini-me version of the sun or some alien vehicle crossing the winter sky on the horizon.  These are sun-dogs that...

I somehow missed the headline in the Science section of the newspaper about how the earth is ever so subtly speeding its rotation.  I fail...

Start the car!  Start the car! (link to the ad here.) This is exactly how hubby and I felt after we purchased this large garden struct...

It is not glands or tenor of voice or fire in the eye as she first thought. In middle years she learned it was not what was funny ...

It is happening. Slowly the simpleness levels you. Smooths out all the interesting edges, Grays down the highlights, Fades the lowligh...

Since we got this bird theme going I will continue in that vein.  This is where I am on certain days, the catbird seat.  Days that I visi...

 A note from our rescue lady: "Update on the Cedar Wax Wing:  with several weeks of small cage rest the bird started flying from si...

My life is too short to worry about the views of others and the choices made by my adult children and minds that cannot be changed.  Anyw...

The sunrise kissed the icy edge of the river pink. It glowed with a virginal blush. But it did not warm or even embarrass anything. ...

It seems so strange to wake to a quiet and still winter morning. Somewhere down the road the workers are catching buses or driving ...

Having an injured bird is somewhat like having a baby in the house.  It is a continual distraction, because even if the baby is napping,...

It is easy to see in the above photo why I call him Zorro. I let him sleep in and didn't bring him out into the living room until...

We had ventured outside to replenish the food pantry, although in reality, we had enough food to last months.  Our excuse was that I ...