Of Cats and Cardstock

 My apologies (again) for the lack of posts! We've been out of town for a few days visiting our daughter at Indiana University. Always ...

Gaylord Opryland Hotel, Nashville

My family spends a lot of time at the state fair each year. Here are a few glimpses into this annual tradition (click on the collage to en...

Today I'm posting a few pictures of one of my favorite places, Memory Bound ! I spend a lot of time there planning and preparing project...

The weather was beautiful this past weekend! I decided to take the camera out and snap a few photos of the gorgeous flowering trees in our ...

I'd like to say I'm the one who is just back from WDW but alas, it's our daughter who has just returned from a trip to Florida ...

At the risk of boring everyone to tears with my fair photos, here is one more installment in my personal state fair photo challenge: flower...

It seems that every year at the fair, you can find new and different kinds of food on on a stick. For one of my personal photo challenges th...

Today was the final day of our state fair . Our whole family loves the fair, and we spend a lot of time there every year camping with my pa...

(Click on the collage to bigify!) Of all these animals spotted at the fair, can you guess which one is the wildest? :-)

I've taken a lot of pictures over the past couple of days at the Iowa State Fair. Here are just a few, collaged to give you a glimpse i...

Last summer, I started taking camera walks through the prairie which runs through our neighborhood. Over the course of three or four months,...

Eighty pounds of pumpkins, strapped tightly into a wagon Two scruffy cats, one soon to be a mama, weaving graceful figure-eights A crisp fal...

. ..but I do feel a bit like this today. This is actually Big Red, the winning pig in the Big Boar Contest at the Iowa State Fair. Big Red ...

We're midway through the fair and I can safely say that it has been one of the hottest fairs I can remember. Yet we're still having ...

Day 3: Before leaving Springfield, we stopped at Shea's Gas Station Museum. For a variety of reasons, we did not actually go into the pl...

Day 2: Well, we've completed another day of our mini-vacation and are still speaking to each other, for the most part anyway. Here are a...

We are in Springfield, Illinois, for a few days, on sort of a condensed family vacation. In recent years, we have taken coastal vacations, s...

We're on the road for a few days. My hope is to post a couple of interesting or fun things as we go. This is going to be more complicate...

It's Sunday morning and I wish I were in Seattle taking in the sights and sounds and smells of the public market. Wish I had a blueberry...