Searching for a Balance

I didn't check to see if it was unplugged. Today I started a batch of fermented cranberry soda. I don't care for sugary soda (w...

"At its Latin root, the word religion is linked to the words ligature and ligament, words having both negative and positive connotation...

We took a little trip to a monastery open house. They make beer there. We toured the plant - so much shiny stainless steel! But, the ...

I desperately needed a decent dust ruffle, and I found a used one on ebay. A Laura Ashley, supposedly one hundred percent cotton. The tag ...

After some very unJune-like weather, hot and excessively humid, today was much drier, sunny and breezy. But I thought the ground must be wet...

even though not as much as when we first moved to town.

O Christ, the healer, we have come to pray for health, to plead for friends. How can we fail to be restored when reached by love that...

there is much beauty.

This wild rose - it took over the forsythia that used to be there and there are patches of it elsewhere in the yard, but I don't care...

My favorite pillowcases, now serving as cleaning cloths for the bathroom.  Well, I don't want to call it a demotion!

The garden on the side of the house near the back door, with a gray stone border.

"We live the given life, not the planned."                          - Wendell Berry

I can't believe how well these wildflowers are holding up - I shouldn't say "holding up", because they look exactly as ...

Lately I'm looking at empty food jars and bottles with a new eye and am liking them as well as any vase.

It seems I always have dishes needing to be washed, and sometimes it's tiresome. But then I remember that this is a working kitchen...

The sunrise was so pretty that I thought the weatherman must be wrong, but he wasn't. It was another one of many gloomy and rainy day...

A friend stopped by and brought us three tomato plants: a Polish one like we had last year, and two Italian. From Italy - his grandfather...

For a change, I bought a yellow hanging plant at the sale; it's lantana - something that's only an annual here. They said it shou...

This is how it looks when my brother does the garden.  I'm glad he's found time for it again.

"...the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary' you are. ...

Today it was plenty over ninety, but I reveled in it - we've had so much chilly, rainy gloominess; it felt great! I made this favorite p...

"It is not doing perfectly this or that particular work or exercising a particular profession perfectly that grafts us into union with...

A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here. A Color stands abroad O...

"The object of salvation is that which is unique, irreplaceable, incommunicable - that which is myself alone. This true inner self must...

I had to put up this photograph of a local crabapple tree. Fabulous.

Let us rise in early morning, And, instead of ointments, bring Hymns of praises to our Master, And his Resurrection sing: We shall ...

When I bought this skillet last summer , I did wonder if I wasn't being greedy. After all, I had one very similar at home, one with the...

There's been a chickadee flapping against our front windows yesterday and again today. I heard a tapping in the spare room and saw him t...

Our dear little cherry tree is blooming hard. There's a dead branch which needs to be removed, but the rest of it is adapting as...

The library throw is all done, except for an identifying patch of some kind we want to attach. It's really hard to get an accurate pho...

Rain on the green grass,   and rain on the tree, Rain on the house-top,   but not on me. from Mother Goose .