Searching for a Balance

The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 27, 2011 Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 2011      For over ...

I have a real preoccupation with this subject - what to serve for dinner when it's hot.  And we're already having some of that, so y...

{pretty} -  I think Dolly is a pretty kitty, and she's posing so nicely here {happy}  -  I'm very happy, and relieved to see a ...

This is a recipe I adapted from Twelve Months of Monastery Soups - the author has some things in his which I don't include in mine.  I...

Today Bob Dylan is 70 years of age. How the time does go!     But, it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe

"Do not pursue spectacular deeds. What matters is the gift of your self, the degree of love that you put into each one of your actions....

{pretty} I keep this cup in my box of Biz - a good idea I got from the ladies at Marie Madeline Studio. {happy} {Happy}, because this ...

     "I always feel so sorry for the poor weeds," said the Story Girl dreamily. "It must be very hard to be rooted up." ...

"I think I could be always good if I lived in a garden all the time."               The Story Girl ,   L.M. Montgomery

The other day, Dolly got herself worked up and rushed onto the kitchen table, mussing up the tablecloth. (I had three cute pictures...

The rhododendron is thinking about blooming.

Emily and I have been working on a baby quilt for a friend of hers. It's in large squares, and we'd sewn some strips. Em's bee...

Having a friend over for dinner, I was desperate to brighten up the table on a very dark, rainy day. Blue and yellow - just the thing.

"The point and the justification of leisure are not that the functionary should function faultlessly and without a breakdown, but that ...

I just found out last week that our local supermarket is once again carrying Italian soda - finally ! So, this is a {happy} But I'm ...

so, I brought my quilt outside to do some stitching beside a potted hydrangea.

Going... going..... gone 

This week my {pretty} is detail on a skirt I made last year from a lovely embroidered lawn - obtained at a good price, I might add My ...

It was warm and summery today, and the flowering trees suddenly came alive. I highly recommend the ornamental cherry tree - it grows briskly...

I bought two of these at a church rummage sale several years ago, in excellent shape and too beautiful to resist. But they were yellowed, ...

This morning I got a step stool out on the back step, and aimed my camera toward the nest - so -  now we're trying to stay away from...

two from the thrift store

I've had such problems keeping celery from getting wilted and rubbery. Then I read - I think in Leila's blog, but I'm not sure...

Here we have the good girl eating her cauliflower - steamed, with tarragon - I never suspected that a cat would care for vegetables. It st...

We came home from church Easter morning, and noticed this nest up on our drainpipe near the back door. It couldn't have been there Satu...