- - It is hard to imagine that these supple, sensuous flowers grew wild in the mountains of Central Asia before they were brought to Europe...

- - I am one who knows how this blogging experience can change a person, for I have been profoundly changed. Later this month it will be si...

To my friends near and far, I've put together some photos of Christmas on the farm and linked them with jazz singer Abbey Lincoln singin...

- - It's been a busy and tiring week, but a good one. I have not been blogging today, but I will respond to comments and visit blogs soo...

- - It's going to be a busy week here, with Thanksgiving this Thursday. Living out in the country on this farm (it's a non-working f...

- - There have been countless messages of water in the last week. Garlic and sapphires in the mud (T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets ), silen...

- - - He signed up for the Marines when he graduated high school in 1973. He served a few years. No one in the family knows what h...