I woke up for no apparent reason (usually able to blame husband's snoring, room being too warm, having to pee, or an odd animal soun...

I have noticed in some of my comments to other blog my icon/avatar and my backlink are not available.  If clicked it just goes to a Google b...

After the wedding that I posted about below we took a few days off and drove up into the mountains of West Virginia.  We went way up high wh...

This season is one of dynamic contrast.  Bright colors reflected in sunlight and charcoal death reflected in rain.  If your hair (if you hav...

We attended the wedding of close friends a few days ago.  These are friends we made years ago when we all decided that car-pooling was a goo...

As mentioned in a prior post I went up to the Hirshhorn Museum for a lecture.  It did not start until 6:30 and since we wanted to beat the r...

Does being around younger people (Millennials) energize you?  It does me!  We do not have tons of friends that age and probably would not ha...

Some asked if in the prior post the man in the photo was part of the artscape and I must inform you that he was not but just someone who had...

Crazy busy life I am having right now.  I am not complaining as I know the quiet and lonely afternoons are just ahead.  Both sides of the co...

I have this little garden bed on the other side of the turn-around in my driveway that is used for those annual flowers from seed packets th...

Humans are notorious for building monuments to their heroes and leaders.  I live just over an hour's drive from the Nation's Capital...

Even though Autumn is not yet here, I can almost see her in the angle of the sun and the smell of the air on the wind, and as I have become ...

The youngest grandchild has kept us on our feet for a week with boat trips, fishing, biking, museum visits, cleaning oysters in the trays an...

Several bloggers asked how I got the "painterly" look to my photos.  I use Photoshop Elements software (which is the lite version ...