Canada Garden

This is what a week of 60 degree weather can do for a garden. It's been beautiful. Tonight's forecast is cold and windy with rai...

Modern Bonica. The leaves are as pretty now as they were in summer. The bloom, not so much, but still incredible for November.

so I'm going through withdrawal. In the meantime, here's a pie recipe that made a big hit here for the holiday. Caramel Pecan Pie ...

We had way way too much to eat, including four deserts--apple pie, pumpkin pie, caramel pecan pie, and cherry-pineapple dump cake. I wonder...

More artwork from the boys' school years. I'll have to ask Judson who Mary McBride is. Actually, it's three turkeys this mornin...

I like this one better. Most of this arrangement is a recycle of the flowers from the last pie. Amazingly long vase life for those beauti...

I'll have to leave the posey-in-a-wine-glass up to the Bonny Doon company. The posey is okay, but with the short stems it's top-he...

It can barely be seen, but Isaac signed this one, vertically down the lower right. Must have been from kindergarden or first grade.

Lately I have been cleaning out closets. Usually that's something I consider a chore to put off for years, but I've found the most...

Missing all those beautiful garden flowers. Can't wait to see them again.

This was taken a year or two before Tommy died. He's sitting on his brand new Harley and he is so happy, so proud of it. He loved ridin...

Still the best picture ever. . .

Charlie's science project--Look at all those blooms! They may have to make zuccinni bread!

We went to the Art Institute in Chicago, which was fabulous. Mark made fun of me because I took this first picture. In fact, he called me a...

Time keeps on slippin. . .into the future. Wasn't that a song? The colors are beautiful in the back yard. Hard to believe it's N...