Searching for a Balance

The same place we'd been to about a year ago - a place full of bright flowers, long views,...

I guess I got the hang of it.

After all these years of knitting, I am finally making myself do something with double pointed needles. Hand warmers. What a misery. ...

except there isn't any pea under there, just a few magazines. (illustration by Edmund Dulac)

amazing how quick they fade.

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."                        - from an old issue of Country Living

Emily dropped by today, bringing a group of sunny faces with her. A very welcome visit.

Well, I wandered out to the garden last evening and there was my first crop of the season! A pleasant surprise for this haphazard gardene...

Anna's actually the one who thrifted it - I bought it from her. It's nice and strong, homemade from a heavy ticking. I got the id...

"Just about the worst thing we can do with Jesus is to domesticate him, to turn him into a nice, harmless figure, simply a teller of ta...

Rhonda recently had a link to it on her blog, Down to Earth .   The Murmuring Cottage  - now, doesn't that sound dreamy?  It is. I hav...

The hydrangeas weren't so deeply blue this summer, but they're fading to such a beautiful lavender.

"If we patiently accept through love all that God allows to happen, then we will begin to taste even here on earth something of the del...

There's a bean salad recipe in  Martha Stewart's Dinner at Home  which is a great substitute for potato or pasta salad, and much fa...

or just a Rorschach moment?

“Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new ...

Well, I've been asked about the dress I'm making for the second wedding. Like I said, I didn't have anything in my closet suit...

"Nobody has a right to be bored in a half-made home. A home which is not a fair expression of us at our best, a home which lacks what i...

God our Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, grant us in accord with the riches of your glory to be strengthened ...