Weigela in our backyard

Caramelized onion, blue cheese and fig strudel (with spinach and strawberry salad) Baked this up for dinner tonight to make sure it would work out for book club on Tuesday. It’s a go.

Up close and personal with catmint We went to the new Forest Hills Fine Arts Center last night to catch Alison Brown and her quartet. It’s a great venue since basically every seat gives you a good view of the stage and the performers. Very intimate. The opening act was […]

Our garden hose Rainy Saturday morning. Belly full of waffles and chocolate milk. Smell of coffee drifting upstairs. I love this poem. Thanks, Christine, for posting it.

Another perspective of the crabapple tree Just five hours into it and I’m very, very happy with my new camera. The difference in the photos is striking. Although I have a lot to learn. It’s a heck of a lot different than regular digital. But I have plenty of time […]

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I am SO buying these tulips again this year Is it possible that I really took 52 photos in the span of 12 minutes? And my husband doesn’t want me to get the new camera. (As if it wouldn’t get plenty of use, honey.) Now back to the tulips…I actually […]

Cow timer I purchased in Saugatuck one fine day (catch another view here)

Rooster art I picked up in Chicago last Memorial Day weekend There are certain things that really bring home the realization that your own problems are very tiny. Maybe you hear about a tragedy on the news or, in my case, you know a person who’s experiencing something very devastating. […]

Flowers of a crabapple tree that graces our front yard We moved into our house in June, when summer was more or less already in swing. It was the following spring, as we were driving around from here to there, that I began to notice all of these beautiful flowering […]

What does one do with a weed-filled area near the air conditioning unit? After forcing the husband to hoe up the grass, she plants Two hours. Six holes. Three bags of compost. Two bags of mulch. One still-to-be-completed bed. It’s a start. It’s always a start when your yard is […]

Soon-to-be-painted window ledge in our living room A year ago I began receiving an increase in spam. Tons of it. It didn’t just wham-bam hit my in-box one magical day. Several additional annoying emails began to trickle in each day, and as months went by, it’s gotten ridiculous. I’m talking […]