It’s no secret to my friends that I am a cat lover. When I was a child growing up on our farm I thought my job in life was taming the many kittens that were born each spring. I spent hours searching out where the mother cats had hidden them Read more…
Yesterday felt like A Perfect Day It was February when we last got together for a family gathering — Jon and I, our oldest daugher Katee and her husband Cory and their two kids, and our youngest daughter Kristi — and it felt like forever. So after assessing the relative Read more…
After some hot days the rain came and then cooler dryer air arrived. I bask in the perfect temperatures and open-window weather. Delightful flowers bloom in early summer gardens. Berries form on blueberry bushes. Strawberries begin to ripen. A doe wanders through the backyard. Swallows swoop and soar. Everywhere I Read more…
Yesterday was one of those perfect summer days—with low humidity, a gentle breeze, sunny skies, and low eighties temperatures. While many people in Minnesota, across our country, and around the world marched for black justice, I spent my day taking it easy because of a sore knee. (It’s not a Read more…
We had a very quiet Memorial Day. After the rain stopped I spent a little time on the deck with my 50 mm lens at F/1.8 (an inexpensive plastic Canon lens enthusiasts call “the nifty fifty”) and with an extension tube, making soft closeups of the lilacs. They are in Read more…