A Celebration of Mundanity

Pictured left is a snapshot of this week's forecast. In Pittsburgh, when you start having those warm spring days in the upper 50's or low 60's, everyone is outside in shorts and tank tops. Those days…

I was hearing the most amazing announcements on the underground today. Several lines, including the Circle line, were effected, having delays or portions of travel canceled. But trains had…

I've been on the prowl for sold out tickets to the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet this year. It sold out almost instantaneously. With David Tennant in the lead role of Hamlet and…

Sunday morning in England, now that's something I've personally never seen. We woke up insanely early and hopped in our blue Lotus and drove to the Goodwood Supercar Breakfast. Even Mark nearly…

a.k.a. our evening's entertainment. This stag beetle is the U.K.'s largest beetle, Lucanus cervus. Apparently, these beetles are rare outside the Thames valley and populations have declined or are…

I am going to be posting furiously over the next couple of days to get on top of my posts.   I generally don't like to make posts without their corresponding photos.   I think they make the…

I'll see your chocolate cake dear friend and raise you one home made yellow cake with fudgy icing.  I may not be in labour and baking bread and playing DDR while baking my cake, but man, after all…

And now for something completely different. Suzanne's husband made the suggestion for today's adventure. It's a place he remembers fondly visiting in his youth, the Duxford Imperial War Museum. I…

We are back from the epic road trip that involved the Lake District, the Scottish Highlands and the Isle of Skye.  Much to write about, many photos to share, you know the drill, it's a backlog here…

We were in Scotland this morning! How weird is that? We had one last lovely drive through the Highlands. It was raining when we left Glencoe, but it quickly let up. It was surprising as we were…