After a long winter and an odd spring, there is nothing like the arrival of strawberries to scream "Summer Is Here!"   I love thes...

Our Cork Popper gang gathered recently at hosts Roger and Merdith's to taste "Summer Wines." What kind of wine do you enjoy in...

Sometimes (not often), we get dressed up! And most of the time when we do, it's for something fun. But this time, it was beyond fun -- i...

I wanted to get in another "Ditch" post before taking off to the lake at the end of the month. My most recent walk brought about a...

“Whatever the worries of the hour or the threats of the future,  once the picture has begun to flow along, there is no room for them in the...

May was a most eclectic reading month. There were several mysteries (of course!), a sweet novel, a fantasy, and a book of essays on finding ...

One of the best things about this time of year is seeing things "wake up" and being able to be outside. I don't have a great g...

Today, a smorgasbord of life in general! A bit of fun in the yard, productive time, a wonderful restaurant "make-good" and fun wit...

Rick and I had a poignant, interesting and fun day recently. We headed to Kalamazoo, Michigan (where he used to live) for the memorial servi...

I've shared a lot of nature in recent posts, but those visits (and life in general) have included some delightful "close encounters...

Every now and then, one has an experience that is unexpectedly wonderful. That's what happened for Rick and me recently when we joined t...

The redbuds are still blooming here, but soon to be replaced by green leaves. Despite cool days  (though getting a bit warmer!)  and (very) ...

Happy Mother's Day to the moms, grandmas, stepmoms, step-grans and pet moms! Here are a few of my favorites. One of my earliest photo sh...

For a person who doesn't read a lot of fiction (in the form of novels, not mysteries) two of the best books I read this month fall into ...

Alas, Harry the Heron hasn't shown up yet this spring, but I've had some other lovely sightings as the Ditch begins to awaken.   Sli...

My pal Barb had a birthday this week, so friend Kate and I decided to throw her a birthday lunch! After all, we need a good reason to celebr...

Let the sun shine! It's been a lovely week here, warmish (not hot, which is perfect) and sunny. It's awfully nice to see the rain ta...

April 21 is always a tough day for me. My mom died on that date, in 1977. You'd think I'd be over it by now. I am. And I'm not. ...

I just wanted to thank you all for such heartfelt comments on my recent post . You can't imagine what that support means to me right now...

Spring certainly seems to be dragging its feet here in mid-Michigan. Or, maybe it just feels like it was so long ago that we had our last sp...

March ended up being a surprisingly good -- and diverse -- reading month. How i managed eight books last month is a mystery to me! There wer...

I was going to my last post stand for Easter, and it does for the sacred side -- but I couldn't resist adding a vintage element or two!...

  Last Christmas Eve, Rick and I enjoyed a remarkable art experience when we visited St. John the Evangelist Church in Jackson, Michigan, ...

We had a lovely and fun pre-Easter, birthday weekend with the grandboys -- and boy, did they tire us out! To be fair, both of us were runnin...

The calendar tells us it is officially spring. I've got to go with that because otherwise, it's just too depressing!    So, on a rem...

Once again, life is a bit slow. Rick just returned from Florida this week, where he spent time with his dad and saw old friends. He got to t...

My friend Suzanne, who lives in London, Ontario, came to visit this week. We were celebrating Belated Christmas. (And belated birthdays, too...

Our schizophrenic weather brought to mind a character from an old children's television show I watched as a child,  "The Howdy Dood...

Three books this month. Is it the headaches that stopped me from doing more? Maybe. And I'm half through another that I'm not sure I...

In the last post I hopefully pointed to signs of spring -- melted snow, being the biggie. Well, I knew it would be back, and it was. Not a l...