Feathers and Flowers

    Books are the real savior during this long winter. Television, even with all our choices, gets old. Last night we streamed "Mank...

With sub-zero temperatures and blizzard across the middle of the country, we should not complain about days of rain. I spotted this patch of...

  Well, boredom is nothing new in the history of the world.  At least it's supposed to stop raining for a while this afternoon. After th...

    We didn't eat out very often in restaurants before the pandemic, so I don't miss it much, except for a few things like Pho. Ther...

One of my favorite calendar pages from the Duc de Berry Book of Hours. The miniature painting depicts a snowy, rural winter scene in such f...

  And a fine junk food it is. These are very good from Trader Joe's. When I have everything on hand, we make a fresh salsa with finely c...