Snow…

It has finally arrived. Beautiful and pristine, it is coating the birdhouse and the branches and stems of what’s left of our prairie. The snow-covered pastureland across the river in Iowa is black and white resembling an Ansel Adams photograph. It would be a...

It’s a crazy busy week…

The Holiday Season tends to take up an enormous amount of time. Even though we aren’t entertaining this year, just getting the tree up, shopping for and wrapping presents, standing in line at the post office, and dealing with the Holiday shopping crowd takes...