After Monday morning's rain, the harvesters got busy again. I saw two of them during my walk with Callie, and heard a third not far away...

I thought I had pulled all these flowers out last fall. They're some variety of helianthus , I think, or sunflower, although not the gia...

As we move into fall, our mornings can be foggy. Mostly it's river fog that creeps up the stream beds on either side of the valley. The ...

The harvesters arrived on Friday morning even before the sun came up. By the time Ken went out for his walk with Callie, there were two harv...

The black riders caught up with Frodo and took the ring. They left his headless body as a warning to those who would oppose the dark lord Sa...

This is the last Christmas that Ken and I had in our San Francisco house before we sold it and moved to France. It was December of 2002; I w...

As you would expect, the days are getting shorter and cooler now. Bert the cat is taking every opportunity to bask in the sun. Yesterday he ...