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When I saw this recipe in my new book, I just had to make it. It sounded like the perfect combination of ingredients for a fall bread. I bought this book after many failed attempts when I first started

As in life, some days can be dark, and other days can be light. In here you will see the drastic beauty of a dark day. I have some of the morning views at our home (5 shots), and then a bit later the views

Seems like you get fewer and fewer services... and now there's a FEE for every service you DO get!

A small correction from yesterday

Look at these Woolly Bear Caterpillars that I've spotted in different places this past week. Do you think they can predict the kind of winter weather we will have this year? As a child, we were told that

And it was a real beauty that landed in a strange spot under the washing line roll. In here you will see a dragonfly called a Stream Hawker (Pinheyschna subpopillata) (5 shots). And then I also have a

Not ALL loners are pathology ridden psychological basket cases...

Clarity amidst the chaos

I saw the bee arriving on the flower, and as usual, I took some shots of it. In here you will see the dancing bee (4 shots), then a developing rose (1 shot), and then some lovely flowers (5 shots). This

I never understood my parents' destructive quest for status and influence.

On a recent trip across the Cascade Mountain Range to the Willamette Valley in Oregon, I took a break from the drive to explore Salt Creek Falls. It's been on my bucket list for a while so this was a perfect

When fall arrives and you have a nice sunny day, what do you do? Take your dog to the nearby park at the bay and enjoy the gorgeous weather. Before we know it, the cooler, rainy days of fall will be the

We wanted to see how many of the geese babies were still there. Nope, no geese were there, and so I focused on a bathing Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus), in the first half of the post (5 shots) and then

Our last weekend of "deck life"

Some people live their with a shadow of sadness hanging over them, like a cloud.

It’s 3 AM in the morning. But it’s not the typical early morning. I actually went to sleep early last night and feel somewhat rested. Can’t tell you how much being able to sleep normal again has changed

Let me start by saying it has taken over a month of making different recipes to finally get a loaf to rise correctly. Apparently, I tried to make bread with my starter before it had the proper amount of

I stopped the car to take a shot of this view, and then something happened. Suddenly the sky turned into a bird flying fiesta, and I was so glad that I stopped the car to get the cloud in the picture above,

Riding through a duality

Sometimes the proverbial grass really IS greener, somewhere else!