Searching for a Balance

since Margo's egg-boiling post .  I don't know what was going on with me before, but all is well now.

I made a very simple a-line, short-sleeved, pull-over-the-head dress which could have been rather dull, except for the ruffled net tr...

"...salt flavors and preserves. G.K. Chesterton offers a lovely thought on our role as salt:   Salt seasons and preserves beef, not bec...

At Agway they had so many plants on sale as gardening season was moving along, and I couldn't resist buying a few strawberry plants. An...

This was pretty darn good. I've got it in my "recipes to try" board - only three ingredients: bananas, peanut butter and...

'It is the essence of adventure to see the break of a new day... What may it not be ushering in?'                    -     L. ...

"The cool evening air was heavy with dew when they started. The winds were folded among the shadowy glens. The spice ferns were fragran...

I didn't take a picture, but I had some corn yesterday and thought I'd try this for a change . It was a great disappointment. The co...

Psalm 37 Do not fret because of the wicked; do not envy those who do evil: for they wither quickly like grass and fade like the g...

When I was watering the plants at the library this morning, I found a "blossom" on the snake plant. After more than twenty year...

but I guess it is.

I have a Pinterest board which is just appealing photos of food  - it may be my favorite. But I thought I could try some of these rather th...

Some of the hollyhocks actually peep in my brother's window - some look the other way.

In the interest of using up fabric, and satisfying my longtime desire to sew a pillowcase, I made one yesterday, using these very clear inst...

Yes, that's my garden - just three feet by nine, and some things which haven't even surfaced yet. I bought my greenhouse rather lat...

It's time again for our wild black raspberries. We won't approach last year's pickings, but whatever we get is a gift! Yest...

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God ...

There's a very small flower bed next to the front steps - it's about three by four feet. And a number of years ago I bought some pe...

She does stop, once in a while

My neighbor is planning to move, and she said to me, "You once told me this was pretty - do you want it?" Yes, it's beaut...

I guess after this, I'll have no reason to forget that fritters are a nice thing for supper once in a while. I made this recipe  (...

I sing the mighty power of God, that made the mountains rise, that spread the flowing seas abroad, and built the lofty skies. I sing the...

I tried Anna's Schoolhouse Baked Beans . The reason being that it seemed very like something my mother used to make, and I never knew h...

It may be that you are tired of photos of Dolly enjoying music Dolly listening to the week-nightly jazz program but I'm not.  :D

A Polish woman came up to me after Mass last week to tell me she's a grandmother. I know her very little, but that's okay - she was ...

This morning a man came into the library with a photo of a bear he'd seen at a lake in our town. It was standing near a tree, and looked...

This used to be a forsythia. It got taken over by these wild roses. I look around the yard at the brook's edge and they are everywhere,...

"The life of God is lived within us, within the deepest center of our being. Man becomes truly himself precisely at the point where he ...

I guess all Cindy's attacks on Henry really don't mean anything - if they can sleep together, side by side. I feel better no...

Don't ask me why I still have this thing, made by me when I was very young . But I do, and it's actually still useful to me. A ...