home… Go Away Winter! 4 Mar 2014 We're being jerked around...by Mother Nature. A couple of weeks ago we had around eighteen inches of snow. Then the temperatures shot skyward; fifties, sixties, even seventies. Yay! We were…
family… A Run on Food During the Snowstorm 13 Feb 2014 It's a running joke. The first mention of the slightest possibility of a snow flurry and people raid the grocery store shelves. There won't be a loaf of bread or…
home… Wildlife…and Gretel 12 Dec 2013 We are blessed with wildlife in North Carolina and Virginia. I recently captured a few deer in the yard through the window. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,…
Farming… The Sun Also Rises 8 Dec 2013 Lately I've posted a few sunset pictures. On a recent trip to our farm in Bland, Virginia, I also captured a few rather nice sunrises. One in particular sparked my…
Entertainment… Vacation Paradise – Part II 27 Sep 2013 Part one of our vacation paradise began with a broad selection of pictures that I took of the lovely secluded beach and some of its shells. After all, location is…
family… Spring Football and Floral Show 28 Apr 2013 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…
family… Winter Wonderland 21 Jan 2013 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…
Entertainment… An Autumn Walk With Gretel 21 Oct 2012 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…
home… Learning How to See 10 Oct 2012 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…
Entertainment… Atalaya Castle and Arts and Crafts Festival 23 May 201223 May 2012 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,…