Above is my granddaughter sitting in the basement TV room of my daughter's house watching TV.  She has self-dressed this morning in a b...

These are two silver ornaments that are part of the centerpiece on my dining table. Last year at this time I opened a virtual trunk fille...

(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...

A follow up to the post below I took Hilary's advice (she is an angel as well as punny and an excellent photographer) and while the *.jp...

I could not resist posting this photo of the National Tree in front of the White House with the Washington Monument in the background.  The ...

It is said that one goal in life is to grow old gracefully... On short stubby legs the goal in life was to learn to walk and not fall, t...

Years ago when I was in my twenties and thirties I was a big American football fan. I started my interest while in college watching vario...

Doesn't this look so neat and clean   ;-) According to my Blogger statistics readers have searched and found my blog with the phras...

Working on Thursday Thoughts... and since, perhaps, some of you are stopping at the blogger bar on the way home hoping to find some lovin...

In the 'Western' world during the months of November and December we go through an amazing transformational panic to try and buy t...

(My prior post was about shipwrecks...so I will continue the theme.) Life is something that has its own energy and schedule and pace even...

There were 20 tons of bolt metal per ship. I live in the mid-Atlantic and am surrounded by interesting history.  There is a ghostly and m...

Just a little update.  She appears to be a keeper and we are waiting with baited breath for a more serious announcement in the coming months...

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  Why?  I don't have to buy and wrap gifts that may or may not be on needed and appreciated.  I do...

My grandson is now into volcanoes for some reason.  At five years of age the volcano is still romantic and exciting in his mind and he love...

As you may know, I have been involved for almost two months in the pursuit of a Master Gardener Certificate.  Some cherish Emmys, Oscars, b...

I sometimes take hundreds of photographs on a day trip. I used to be conservative and clearly egotistical thinking that I should be selecti...

(As a pre-script today is our Veterans Day.) It is not hyperbole to write that World War Two changed the world.  It was fought on 6 of ...

I looked outside into the sunny day that had followed a rain sparkly morning...but I saw nothing unusual  or intriguing. I looked arou...