When I was in upstate New York for my aunt's funeral a few weeks ago, I stayed in her apartment. It's the apartment that she and my ...

It always is this time of year. Winter rains and winds do a number on the yard and vegetable garden. The ground is littered with sticks and ...

It's that time of year when the naturalized primevères (primroses) in our yard bloom. I don't think they're as numerous this ye...

We had some leftover smoked chicken last weekend and one of my favorite pizzas is made with smoked chicken and bell peppers, so I made a cou...

The other day, while walking with Tasha among the vines, I saw some low fog down on the river. I had the 100mm macro lens on the camera, not...

As they do every winter, the artichokes are sending up fresh new leaves. They may wilt or even die back in a freeze, but they'll regrow ...

Today is Tasha's third birthday. That's twenty-one in "people years." She's growing into a good, mostly well-behaved, ...