small town me

Two mornings in Colorado, from the car. Morning storm clouds on Colorado Highway 285. Moonset on Colorado Highway 160. S...

Trying to avoid the tourist madhouse of my small town this weekend, we came up with an errand in Ventura and stopped for a YUMMY lunch at T...

My husband and I just returned from a cross country road trip.  He drove, while I continued to refine my "shoot from the car window at...

I'm living in the moment, so the tripography will have to wait.  But today's big sky (in Minnesota, looking towards South Dakota)......

Slightly damp, they made it to Cleveland and ate some " Real food!! Wall eye beans and rice ." I thought wall eye might be an aut...

Homer is pleased to report that he is doing very  well.  Life is good.  The belly is full and he's regained all t...

" Tonights menu is chicken alfredo with peas. Chocolate cheese cake slices we got at a market today.  It's hot and humid as hell h...

I started to worry a bit when Handy didn't check in with me the second night. But I figured they got to the campsite late. Then I did ge...

The autocorrect fails are pretty funny.  Handy is not the greatest typist to begin with, plus he needs reading glasses which I'm sure h...

Handy has sent me a few pictures along with his usually clever texts.  " Solar Farm outside of Nevada ." OK, that's not ve...

I hate the word "hacks."  20 hacks every cook needs to know, etc. In the old days, they used to be "helpful hints" and...

Sorry there is no Ryan Gosling in this post. Yet. Wait for it.   eDevices are wonderful little things but sometimes... Ernest's...

It's been a long time since I had a project that so consumed and obsessed me. A cross-country road trip has been in the back of our mi...

I am grateful that Ernest made a double batch of his brother's famous cookies.  I'm grateful he changed the light bulb for ...

Sunday evening there was this.  But then a couple days later it was back to this.  So no more beard. He looks younger witho...

 Ernest returned from a month of rock climbing  on top of the world, both literally and figuratively. I, of course, stole all the...