Creating Interest

In the year we no longer feared "Y2K" and the collapse of world banking and missile defenses, I invented a private detective in a ...

My title is taken from a the mouth of a character in one of the novels of the French author, Colette, who I remember reading during the summ...

There's an open circle of water inside frozen Hidden Lake today.  A huge council of Canada Geese arrived a week or two ago to take up...

She has been gone two days now.  I'm full of sobs.  Not fair, not ever fair.  And yet, lucky for her that she went peacefully, in sleep,...

Many of the plants here have personalities.  Take, for instance this colonnade of the ornamental grass, Karl Foerster. Sometimes I ...

Carl Brandt and his helper, Jacob, are rebuilding our dock.  The grass along our part of the lakeshore is the favorite restaurant of several...

We grow a patch of peonies and irises off to the right side of our big daylily show in the back yard.  We bought some from Klehm's Song ...