A Celebration of Mundanity

It's a couple of days after the start of the trout season. I joined Mark not to fish but to enjoy the hike and photograph the wildflowers currently in bloom. Knowing there will be many repeat visits…

I spent several hours with Andrew simply driving on highways and it was such a good exercise for me to do. One, I am far more comfortable with highway driving now, which I had been avoiding for the…

It's our sixth anniversary, the candy and iron anniversary apparently. We've been married for six years, together for seven, but it hasn't seemed like that much time has passed. Wasn't it just…

When we last visited the front yard garden, we had removed the giant yews from in front of the house. We dug out the roots laid in a thick layer of manure and sphagnum and new soil. An easy and…

It is a rite of spring... ...bringing in branches of Forsythia buds to force to bloom indoors in a vase on the mantle. The flowers that bloom from the earliest buds brought inside are a much paler…

April showers bring May flowers, right? What does three inches of April snow bring? I didn't believe the weather report, I couldn't imagine snow sticking after having a week of warm spring…

We now have a scanner and I have spent some time scanning in old family photos to contribute to my genealogy project. I have only scanned in older poor quality photos to date, the grainy-ness and…

Or close enough. On this day, Mark has been alive for one billion seconds. He has been around a long time. You were born on a waning gibbous moon. This day the moon is waning gibbous. Happy one…

Cheering on excitedly the daffodils, crocus and other sleepy flowers starting to poke their little heads out of the ground!

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Sam Keith from the journals and photographs of Richard Proenneke. In 1968 Proenneke built a log cabin on the Upper Twin Lake in Alaska. This book is a…