- - After posting about the Fauchon coffee tins, I got to thinking about this sewing tin I inherited from my mom. As a teenager, if I needed...

- - John James Audubon April 26, 1785-January 27, 1851 Birds. How exasperating they are! Even when I lift my camera to shoot them throu...

On this shortest day of the year, we look out through the front window, between peeling porch posts, over the humble spirea's snowflake ...

With head, hands, wings or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. . . . Hail horrors, hail Infernal worl...

Eee gads, we've been steeping in the toxic waste of the mortgage-backed securities mess - and bailout, which didn't pass in the firs...

Please click on the images to see the details better. This old 7-foot cabinet stands in our family room. It was named "the Bastard...

Among the many things I inherited from my parents are a number of old books. My dad had books floor to ceiling in many rooms of our house. ...

I haven't counted the pitchers we have, but here are a few, in the china cabinet I inherited from my dad. Any oak furniture we inherited...

(Click on the images to see the pins better.) Mom was 40 years old when I was born. She was born in 1916. You can do the math. She was of th...

Some things around here were broken when I got them. Like a couple of statues that were my grandma's. And this cognac bottle. We don...