The arrival of big equipment or tree removal guys is a good reason  to sit in the middle of the yard and just watch. Dorien loves to pretend to go to work. With his vintage Samsonite suitcase and a clip-on tie. I like how he coordinated his tie with both his shirt and pants. August went for more of a mixed pattern look....Read More

Towards the end of April, right as the foliage on our back deck was really exploding, I happened to notice a dove sitting on a nest that she'd just built. This was a first for us. There is almost always a pair of doves that hangs around our back deck, but they'd never built a nest there before. When I noticed she'd flown...Read More

It's a really good thing I don't blog for money.  Because the past few months, I've been so busy that even blogging as a personal online journal or a record of our lives has been too difficult.  That doesn't mean that I don't find myself writing blog posts in my head as my daily events unfold. I bet I'm not the only blogger...Read More