This whole vacation I have slept later than I normally do...sometimes I am under cover until 8:00 AM which is late for me.  Perhaps it is th...

Here we are at Hilton Head where the weather is supposed to be in the low 70's F traditionally, but this spring it only breaks 60 F by m...

I lucked out this year.  My amaryillus bloomed before my departure this week to vacation with family.  Since I will be running  lying on a b...

The days do not break as early as we were used to because of that archaic process called daylight savings time.  It does not save any daylig...

Travel is frequently about the people and since hubby and I are those annoying elderly talkative types that you try to avoid on the plane, w...

Gotcha!  I changed my header out of boredom today.  It has taken me the entire week to get back on a normal waking/sleeping schedule.  I sle...

Yes, in answer to my readers, (I actually missed you all and have been having fun catching up on your blogs...never guessed I would feel tha...

Must be getting old because the 3 time changes and the lost hour from daylight savings were far harder on my metabolism than the tequila sho...

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...

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