They were so very delighted to have gotten through the gate first and and to have locked me inside the fence in the flower garden.

I have been looking out my kitchen window at my neighbor's amazing maple tree in it's full, brilliant glory all week, lamenting the fact that I probably wouldn't make it up the north shore to bask in the inland maple forests.  We are having a late fall this year, and the previous…

She had done something she wasn't supposed to do.  I resorted to my overly calm, dreadfully serious, deep Mama voice, "Tell me the truth, Hannah." "No."   In an even deeper voice with a stern face, I said, "Tell me the truth right now, or there will be a BIG…