Sweet living has taken over. Here we are, already deep in fall--girls flicking on the electric heater in the mornings. Sweaters. Red nos...

Sweet delicious springtime! Awaiting yet another rain before Easter Sunday. The dark skies make the blossoms everywhere all the brighter. ...

The rains have quenched the earth's thirst! Borage seedlings!! Fire on the mountain! Gaillardia--so tough and pretty! After the rains, t...

The rainbows are divine here in Central TX. I love those dark skies behind the glittering gorgeousness of all that rainy color. These came...

Oh, to live in a place where it is not 100 degrees every day. But you know what? When it rains all the time there is mold . . . at least t...

Miss A and Baba feeding ducks at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Fran. The view out our window at the Berkeley City Club. Sea lions on the do...

My man has been wielding the camera lately. I love his shots, the way he captures light and movement. We got a new digital picture frame a...

Laurel and I found this little guy down by our pond the other day. Apparently garters are the only snakes in our region with stripes runnin...

Lantana camara in the chicken run. Climbing rose "Don Juan." Old fashioned petunia. More upright than the ones you commonly see t...

Nobody is as excited about this guy as I am . . . he's as big as a hummingbird! So cool, such a long proboscis to reach down and get al...

We've been blessed with rain and burgeoning spring. Here is the Climbing Don Juan rose covered in raindrops. Rare treat. What a class...

Spring is all-out springing here, and oh what fun. The light the last couple mornings has been so pretty, gentle, golden. I am being a real ...