This past week, we bid a final farewell to our Cork Popper friend Mike, who died last month. It wasn't a surprise, and while there are a...

October wasn't the reading month I hoped for, either in quantity or in really loving the books. There were a couple of very good ones --...

In this second of two posts , we're back in Stratford, Ontario, and this time we're going behind the scenes of this remarkable theat...

Now hear this!   Before we return to Stratford, here's our last postcard from the lake, I wanted to take you on the Skeleton Walk we enj...

What a great few days! I returned the other night from Stratford, Ontario, where I enjoyed two productions and the lovely town!   After one ...

On my last morning at the lake, Rick and I did our "color tour." Our plan was to venture north to the town of Petoskey, lunch with...

Winding down at the lake. We've been lucky. It's been brisk most days of my visit but there have been some warm and sunny ones too. ...

One of the things I love most about the change of season is how the landscape evolves, turning from the brighter greens of spring, the golde...

There's something bittersweet about hitting the road for the lake and knowing it is the last time you'll be there for the next six m...

Before I went back to the lake, I took a couple of jaunts to the ditch. It was still early, so color hadn't fully kicked in but you coul...

Well, it was quite a week or two! I'm healing well from the dental surgery, and thanks for your support. I still can't eat popcorn o...

Five books this month -- three mysteries, one novel and one that's pretty hard to categorize but I'll call non-fiction/history. All ...

When I came back from the lake earlier this month, it was to head to some appointments and enjoy some time at home (if you call looking at t...

I'm home for a bit, as lake life slows and life here picks up with appointments and gatherings. But in the midst of summer, life on the ...

We're wrapping up peak season at the cottage. Yes, there will be more visits, but they will be shorter and the weather will be colder. S...

  Some things just make me happy. For example, when I'm riding up north and straight ahead I start to see this sight!   I mentioned the ...

We may not technically be into fall, but it certainly is beginning to feel and look like it. Mornings and nights are cooler, sometimes downr...

Good morning! People use use the Blogger reading list (google followers on the blog) are noticing that for almost 48 hours (maybe more, now)...

Biggest sigh. Another art camp wrapped up. Of course, the art doesn't stop and neither does the fun. Yet it remains one of my favorite e...

NOTE: Blogger comment issue appears to be solved! Thanks for checking back!   I didn't have high hopes for August being a great reading ...

Every year for maybe 20 years, quite possibly more, my friend Kate and I take two weeks (now; when we were working, it used to be a weekend!...

I promise the next post will be about art camp (unless it's a book wrap up!) But I thought I'd wrap up earlier events first. You may...

Rick and I headed home early last week so I could get to a doc appointment. The day after that I turned around and came up for Art Camp, my ...

There are those who say the season of abundance is autumn. I don't entirely disagree. But for me it begins about six weeks before the ca...

You don't turn 75 every day. Those five-and-zero birthdays are sometimes a bit of a kick in the pants. Rick wanted to do something speci...

I'm sitting on the love seat on the porch, a book in hand, legs wrapped in a soft, aqua throw to keep the evening chill from setting in ...

My little world has seen some company lately! Talk about fun!    It started out down the road when my cousin David welcomed a group of his f...

I only made it through six books in July, but when one is over 500 pages and another close to 1,000, I submit to defeat with a bit of grace....

The other day was the kind that almost doesn't seem real, it was so perfect. Warm, quite warm, but not hot and not at all humid. There w...

Life at the lake moves peacefully and at its own gentle pace. I find myself gradually and gently sinking into a sense of peace, calm and yes...