While I was out walking in the neighborhood over the past few weeks, I noticed a couple of new little libraries! One was just around the corner tucked into a street I normally don’t walk down, and another beautiful big library house appeared on a street I walk down all…

Although I am still tweaking things here and there, through a series of trial and error, I learned to install a new theme for my blog and customize changes to it. At the piano, I have just about completely learned that violin accompaniment that I’ve been talking about for months…

In our neighborhood people are stacking wood next to their outdoor saunas, stacking wood on their front porches for their woodturning fireplaces and wood stoves, and chewing up some of the first fallen leaves with their lawnmowers. Ripening apples on trees are anticipated, and Concord grapes are being harvested from…

She’s always up to something, even when she’s not really up to anything.

I had always wanted to live in a house covered by vines. When we bought our lovely old house more than a decade ago, I was so happy, but there were a few things on my “wish list” for a house that our particular house did not have: A big,…

The bumblebees love the lavender plants on the deck. This one happened to come along right as I was sitting next to the plant with my camera.

The last Sunday Night at the Beach for the season happened the weekend of Labor Day. Even though there was no soccer practice that night, for some reason we were rushing around. Only one kidlet decided to come for a super quick trip down to the water with me, and…

Sunday birthdays are always a little hard, like school day birthdays. A lot goes on during the course of the average Sunday around here, and that means all the birthday loveliness gets squeezed in around the busy. The day started out with breakfast in the bathtub when exactly half of…