Hard to believe that I have been blogging for 20 years now. A set of enthusiasms like photography, writing, baking, cooking and storytelling...

                                        Maryland with the pine trees and water I flew back to the east coast for the first time since the en...

Look for the recipe for this crostata at the bottom of this post. "There's something about October that stirs the travel lust in me...

I have a dear friend who turned 80 this month. She is an artist and writer and ecology instructor, she sings in her church choir and does sq...

My grandad lived in New York City, but on occasion he would come visit us in Virginia. When he did, my Mom always made this cake...it was hi...

I live in the western part of Sonoma County, CA. A lot of the area where I live was settled with Americans (as opposed to the native America...

Sometime on September 12, 2026 this blog had it's 4 millionth view. They say that blogs are passé, but people are viewing my posts, incl...

Do you know how sometimes you take a photo and lose track of it...and then 'find' it weeks later in your digital photos? That happen...

So much fun to have a bearing apple tree. Sometimes I don't have enough free time to harvest many of them, but when I do, I often make a...

This isn't a food post, but it is about having fun. Last weekend Sweetie and I visited our daughter and her family in Redmond, WA and I ...

August is often a changeable month, a bit like April or even March. Sometimes it's hot and you know it's summer, but then you look o...

Peaches! Ripe, juicy white peaches just begged to go into a pie. Thought I'd combine them with some blackberries from down the driveway,...