Category Archives: landscape

Spring Football and Floral Show

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

Spring football?? Well, so to speak. Game on!! And while the kids play, the birds are making nests (and messes) on the porch! But we can always enjoy the colors and lovely temperatures of spring. I wish you could smell … Continue reading →

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Winter Wonderland

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

  Snow  provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. - Andy  Goldsworthy We have been blessed with a winter’s wonderland.  It didn’t make bad driving conditions because temperatures had been in the seventies right before the sudden plummet.  This is … Continue reading →

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An Autumn Walk With Gretel

Posted on October 21, 2012 by

These two are my precious loves – my son Caleb, and my dog-ter Gretel! This was taken about a week ago on Gretel’s first birthday.  We celebrated by buying her some new toys and getting the most puppy friendly oatmeal cookie … Continue reading →

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Learning How to See

Posted on October 10, 2012 by

I looked out the window in my bedroom this morning and immediately saw the beauty of the various shades of green facing me.  Not only the soft sage of the curtains falling gracefully to the sides, and the deep forest green of the … Continue reading →

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Atalaya Castle and Arts and Crafts Festival

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

Enter here, my friends, right through the door of the imaginations of a pair of artists and art historians, Archer and Anna Huntington.  Located inside of Huntington Beach State Park, in South Carolina, it is a great place to spend … Continue reading →

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What are you doing Memorial Day?

Posted on May 20, 2012 by

Memorial Day in the United States is held on the last Monday of May to honor the men and women who have died in service to our country.  We traditionally place American flags on the graves of the deceased and … Continue reading →

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Yellowstone’s Amazing Sites and History

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

A pair of moose were our official greeters to Yellowstone National Park upon our arrival.  I thought it fitting that they should be yours as well. What followed though, seemed to be as far from this green and serene landscape … Continue reading →

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W is for Windmill

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

When my husband and I traveled West this past summer, we began to see flat bed rigs hauling long narrow wings – so they appeared. They were too narrow to be for large planes, but we thought they might have … Continue reading →

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V is for View

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

V is for views – all kinds – all places. From the Missouri River Valley to the Badlands of South Dakota, the top of the Rockies, to Paris, France, and the mists over the mountains of Jefferson National Forest in … Continue reading →

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T is for Tipi

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

I’ve been amazed by the tipis (or teepees) I’ve seen lately. Ralph Lauren has some on his property that are like the Taj Mahal of tipis. What is so alluring about them? Is it the triangular shape pointing to heaven? … Continue reading →

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