It feels like it's been winter for a year right now :  ice, snow, mud, wind, ice, cold.  Accent on the cold.  But somethi...

Apologies for the long between-posts.  There is always much to do, and when we had several very cold days, I spent hours wrestling wit...

It's been chilly the last several days - woodstove and hot coffee weather, but also perfect for  walks.  I almost stepped on t...

What an odd two weeks I've had - laid low with pneumonia, of all things, and quite wobbly. I was very happy to have t...

Yesterday was Julia Child's 100th birthday, had she lived to share the day.  Because she meant so much to me, I wante...

My goodness!  When I went to write a blog post, I discovered Blogger completely changed the format overnight and I am lost.  F...

My granddaughter, Izzie, is about to turn 6. Can you believe it? How can it already be 6 years since I first held her, not even a day old? T...

The snow has finally melted from our freakish Halloween snowstorm that left us with 26 inches of way too early white stuff, so now I can bre...

After seeing my mother a week before she died in February, I came home and lay on the couch, staring at the ceiling. I did that for ...

Warm fresh strawberries, crackly meringue cups, and softly whipped cream for before the fireworks tonight!

I'm a lunch on the go, brownbagger from way back, and when I saw Maria's chocolate chip muffins, I got a little gleeful. How perfect...

Happy New Year to all! Above you see the grand and splashy sunset last night, with the sun going down between two mountains. I wasn't ...

This has become our traditional Easter cake - an old fashioned southern carrot cake with a cream cheese and butter icing, decorated wi...