January 1, 2021 I like new beginnings. If January wants to arrive newly cloaked in ice, I have no problem. The streets and sidewalks have...

October 8, 2020 Each autumn is different now. I cannot predict them. When I was a girl, the trees were bare as skeletons by Halloween....

March 15, 2020 In my immediate family circle right now we have a pregnancy, a major surgery, a member quarantined in a nursing home, and...

I love summer travel. Day trip, month trip; I just like to go and see, especially during the months when so many others are doing the...

Maybe I just notice butterflies more later in summer. August is usually butterfly month for me. That's when the tall wildflowers push...

Perhaps you are your family’s photographer. Smartphones may have made that position, like so many others, obsolete. Yet occasionally...

Some years Mother Nature parses spring blooms like a strict mom who’s unsure allowance is a necessary thing. This year Mother won the...

Woke up one morning and it was spring. It happens like that. Suddenly forsythia. No mittens required. Where I live, spring, like autumn,...

What do you know? We’re having a snowy winter! Not many of those this decade. When I was a kid, it seemed as if it snowed every week....

Once New Year’s Day passes, it's as if a gust of wind blows in and clears away all the tinsel overnight. Indoors becomes austere as well,...