I thought it would be fun to document my garden this year for the Weekend Cooking crowd and, since flowers are a favorite photography subject, for Saturday Snapshots, too. It’s hard to know where to start, so I went for … Continue reading →
Who knew that A Poetry Handbook would be good for so many new words? Words to describe the sounds that letters make Words to describe the rhythm of a poem This week, I learned words that describe rhyme from page 59 of A … Continue reading →
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic at The Broke and The Bookish: Top Ten Characters Who X, where I get to determine X. So, I’m going with X = Live in London. The first five characters will be from books I’ve … Continue reading →
Did you see the Full Moon? I missed the eclipse but had a rare opportunity to take photos of the moon at the Missouri Botanical Garden. For British Isles Friday, I posted about a cooking class for British foods with … Continue reading →
Happy Easter! Did you know that the date for Easter is based on a moon phase? It’s the first Sunday after the full moon that follows the March equinox. I didn’t get up to see the lunar eclipse, but the … Continue reading →
After learning how to make oddly-named British foods, like Spotted Dick, this week (check out my post for those photos), I got to walk through the Missouri Botanical Garden accompanied by a Full Moon. That’s an unusual event for me, … Continue reading →
For National Poetry Month, I’m reading A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver and finding some delightful words to share for Wondrous Words Wednesday. Last week, the words were about the sounds that letters make. This week, I learned (and re-learned) … Continue reading →
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic at The Broke and The Bookish: The top 10 bookish things (that aren’t books) that I would like to own. This seemed to be begging for a Pinterest board rather than a post, so here’s my … Continue reading →
Last week was busy on my blog! We had another week of great posts for British Isles Friday — it seems there was some pent-up energy for posts about Great Britain and Ireland in the book blogging community. Don’t miss … Continue reading →
I’m reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson as part of my Anglophile year, but it’s a wide-ranging book (and over 900 pages) covering two continents and parts of two centuries. So, this is the second time I’ve managed to pull a … Continue reading →