Good morning! Time: // 9:13 am (yeah, I was up late cheering the Cardinals!) The scene: // Sunny and cool with a lovely golden light in our backyard because the maple trees have turned color. Listening to: // My Sunday … Continue reading →
Our first frost was this week, so I cut down my tomato plants and rescued a large bowl of ripe yellow pear cherry tomatoes and two bowls of green tomatoes of various types, shapes, and sizes. A couple of years … Continue reading →
I had to turn The Perfume Collector into the library last week so I included it in a group post: 5 Quick Book Reviews. But I wanted to make sure that the Dreaming of France and Books on France folks know about this … Continue reading →
Good morning! Time: // 8:45 am The scene: // Sunny and cool in a town waving the National League Pennant. I haven’t been much of a baseball fan in recent years after being disillusioned by the steroid era, but I … Continue reading →
A couple of weeks ago, Rick and I took a Saturday workshop on Environmental Portraiture offered by the Shaw Nature Reserve which is part of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Our terrific instructor was Mark Katzman. I posted some of Rick’s behind-the-scenes photos and a portrait … Continue reading →
The news that made the headlines this week was research on lab rats indicating a similar reaction to Oreos as cocaine. Here is Brian Williams take on it from the NBC Nightly News: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, … Continue reading →
Book: Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein Genre: Young Adult Fiction Publisher: Hyperion Publication date: 2013 Pages: 360 Source: Library Summary: Rose is a female pilot in World War II working in England with the Air Transport Auxiliary. Most of the … Continue reading →
Good morning! Time: // 8:30 am (not bad for the day after Dewey’s Read-a-Thon!) The scene: // A sunny fall day in a town whose baseball team is 2 up in the NLCS. Go Cards! Listening to: // My Sunday … Continue reading →
Saturday mornings are busy in the blogging world! My Weekend Cooking (Book Review: Cooked by Michael Pollan (Part 4)) and Saturday Snapshot (Environmental Portraits Photography Workshop) posts are up, so now I’m ready to join Dewey’s Read-a-Thon! Here are my answers to … Continue reading →
For a second Saturday in a row, we attended a photography workshop. The first one was on street photography (Saturday Snapshot — Street Photography), the second on environmental portraits. We learned a lot of secrets that go on behind the … Continue reading →