During the summer months I am involved in master gardener projects. One project could involve several hours 4 days a week, but I have decid...

10:00 PM on Tuesday evening the 23rd and I am off to bed! 11:00 PM and for a half hour after thunder and lightning that raises the bed! 2:...

 Living in "good-old-boy" country means that things get done on a time warp.  It is not like the living in the city or suburbs whe...

The five-year-old is coming to visit all week, next week.  My husband will  be here the first two days of that week, and then he is off ...

I cannot in all good conscience leave France without some broader more traditional less contextual examples of what wonderful things can be ...

(First, Hattie asked a while back if all the photos from my French trip were mine and they are!   I am a little flattered.  As a copyright f...

Before I travel I tend to collect a few books of fiction and non-fiction on the place I am going to visit.  I involve myself in the idiomati...

The next few posts are about the people.   Without that ingredient, travel becomes solid food without wine or dessert.  The first group of p...

Enough about Paris!  After all, I did cruise on not only one but three rivers during this two week trip.  The weather cooperated nicely.  A ...

Prior to my trip to France I read The Paris Architect which was a novel more about WWII and the Nazis in Paris and how an architect handled ...

I find my reaction to iconic landmarks/art varies over the years as I get my chance to see them.  I was overwhelmed when I first saw the pyr...