I’ve been wanting to go to this beach all summer.  We will be going back to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.  It was beautiful.  The sand was terrific for playing in too.  The crisp evening air was calm and refreshing.  Lake Superior happened to be calm.  The sunset was amazing.…

I love, love LOVE this picture.  More writing is to soon come about sunset at the beach on the south shore.  There are more images too.  Stay tuned. I don’t often have the lens I used to take this image on my camera when we are at a beach.  I’m…

If I could pick absolutely any place to live, with no strings attached, I am pretty sure Bayfield WI would be on my list of best choices.  I love that town!  It’s so beautiful, small and unique.  We zipped over there on Sunday after church to watch the Apple Festival…

We spent the middle of our day today at the Art Institute.  This is the second time we’ve been to Family Day there, and I must say, both times have been spectacular fun.  Today we made prints, sculpted with clay, created yarn collages and mosaics, folded paper flowers, made masks,…

We hadn’t been to the secret creek for a long time.  Last Wednesday morning Squirmy and I went for a little walk there while the big kidlets were off to school, and I decided to try to bring the others to play there in the afternoon before Wednesday evening church…

It’s beautiful EVERYWHERE you look this week.  I love it!  Every day I’ve been trying to get out in the neighborhood just a little bit to enjoy the amazing trees and foilage.  All the hillsides are radiating, and there are some amazing views of the deep blue lake sparkling down…

I was holding a squirmy Squirmy, and The Banana was sitting behind me on my office chair while I took care of some quick things on my computer this morning.  It was a wiggly affair, and I was having trouble concentrating on anything.  The Banana stroked my hair and said,…

When we first moved into our house, I noticed some sticks on the windows in my bedroom.  The sticks weren’t attached to anything, but I thought they looked like vine branches, and I felt disappointed that the previous owners probably had torn down vine from the brick exterior of our…

Autumn.  I love it. I’ve always liked it.  I used to love how the prairie grasses would turn rich colors in the pasture when there was enough rain in the fall, and how the shelter belts and trees around a lake would turn yellow in the late afternoon sun.  The…