Letters from a Hill Farm

For those of us in the wintry climes, I thought this would be a perfect song! "I gotta fly to St. Somewhere." Addendum : None of...

I love to read books that are divided into months. A while back, I read Richardson Wright's The Gardener's Bed-Book, published in 1...

Ever since Cornflower posted this Carl Larsson painting on her blog, I've been thinking about how to set up a reading table in my house...

21 inches! And some people in the area got even more.

Right now we have seventeen inches and it is still coming down! They've already called at least a two-hour school delay for tomorrow. ...

Before baking After baking I got this recipe years ago from an online cooking list. It is fantastic! Today I added some chocolate chips on...

Last month I chose this song as a "today's video" showing the Kinks singing it a long time ago, and Ray Davies singing it more...

My February book in the 2007 TBR Challenge is A Right To Die by Rex Stout. This is a 1964 entry in the great oeuvre of Nero Wolfe detective...

We are in the midst of the St. Valentine's Day blizzard of aught seven. We've gotten ten inches already, and there's no sign of...

I made a little deal with myself. As I was driving down Main St., I thought, if there is a parking place in front of the bookstore, I'l...

The Last Uncle by Linda Pastan The last uncle is pushing off in his funeral skiff (the usual black limo) having locked the doors behind him ...

Very, very cold at 7:30 this morning, but bright and sunny. We're supposed to have a big storm starting in the wee hours of tomorrow mo...

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only ...

Los Lonely Boys/Sacred/2006 I love these guys! This is the second album.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer. ...

Ah, the power of suggestion! This morning I was reading some blogs, and came across Cornflower's photo of a piece of chocolate cake. S...

Around 8 o'clock this morning, the mother and two babies came walking out of the woods, down the hill.

To continue with yesterday's telephone theme: To ignore a ringing telephone is one of the few feats of which humanity has so far proved ...

I love the old black and white photos at Keep The Coffee Coming . There's a quality that just doesn't come through in color picture...