Hearth and home

                                               Fifty Days of Easter celebration between Easter Sunday and Pentecost!  At our house we lik...

The ancient grayness shifted Suddenly and thinned Like mist upon the moors Before a wind. An old, old prophet lifted A shin...

  For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;   The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, an...

A few nice days in March does a lot for a spring-like outlook - even though we know we still have to suffer winter -like weather.  ...

Today it is 10 degrees and going much lower tonight.  The ground is mostly snow covered with a few patches of very dead looking brown grass....

How could I let February pass by without a tribute to its lovely little flower - the humble violet?  That would be impossible since violets...

An overnight temp of -10 and a high of  2 degrees for the day is very unusual for mid February here in Northwest Indiana.  More snow is expe...