Rethinking my earlier post...I think this picture above gives you a more accurate rendition of what it looks like from my dock if I turn...

I am going away for a week's vacation.  Since I am retired you may ask why in the hell I need a vacation.  I don't.  But because I a...

I have posted on the artist Al Weiwei twice already and from all the interesting examples in the very limited exhibit that is currently tour...

The bowl is from Japan and the rice is from Italy and this photo was taken in my kitchen.  This is the beginning of an homage to Al Weiwe...

In what must seem as an addendum to my prior comments on art and artists, I expanded my experience by visiting an exhibit of one of the ...

My leadership on a landscape committee for our local museum has taken more time than I anticipated when I first volunteered.  There is maint...

I have been thinking about the article that will be (may be) requested this month that I mentioned in the prior post.  After all, they m...

The past few years I have grown more fond of BBC television programs that are purchased by our public television stations and then re-broadc...

When you pursue some skill that you love you reach a point where you wish people to take notice no matter how shy you are.  When I first joi...

It is early on a lazy winter morning at my daughter's house.  All is ominously quiet since there are three little kids that live here wh...

There is not a lot of data, but what little there is can be found here:

Seems that yesterdays post created a butterfly effect and that ripple that the other blogger created was far more significant than mine!!  P...

Yes, we finally got some of the white stuff. I have had a series of medical tests lately.  I have not written about them because this pa...

Yes, I am basking in the warm feeling of the inauguration of the man I voted for.  But I still have close conservative friends who really th...

After we removed the Christmas tree we were finally able to move our breakfast-lunch-formal-informal table back in the bay window area.  Pri...

This winter has seemed like Ground Hog Day...all winter long.  The days are dark and unusually short.  I swear this year they seem much shor...

I am eating breakfast and only listening with one ear to the news host.  I turn to hubby who is beginning to spread butter on his English mu...

Yes, the retirement party was worthwhile.  The person we were honoring is one of those gems in life that those working under her weep at her...

I embrace with no reservation The peacefulness of solitude and the songs of nature. Yet for some too much of this is a breatht...

Two updates to complicate the post below even more.  I ate out at Olive Garden last night because I wanted to support their support of their...