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This Rose of Sharon appeared today in the back-yard jungle of our neighbor to the south. It stands out handsomely amidst a dense thicket ...

I'd read that this month's full moon would be bigger and brighter than most, but, imagining it in a clear sky, thought it wouldn...

This shows a watercolor called "The Balcony." Paul Cézanne painted it in 1900 and Albert Eugene Gallatin bought it in 1924. Gall...

This shows a companion who shared my youth and was at times my best friend. Since allergies made furry pets impossible in my family's...

Not too long ago I read Siegfried Sassoon's fictionalized Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man which comes to a close in 1915 when he puts on ...

I'm writing an article about this guy for Wikipedia. He was an art teacher during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s and for much of t...

This shows some of what's left of a rose I've nurtured from a cutting over the past couple of years. It bloomed once this spring a...

Excavation continues in the little shopping center where I buy groceries. Last week the large digger crawled out of the pit when the bank ...

This little guy came by today to help us rid our car port of burrowing carpenter bees.

This cedar tree stands beside our neighbors' house. We have a companion on our side of the shared driveway. I once heard that people ...

This shows part of Amsterdam's Amstel Canal. The tower belongs to Munttoren, Munt Tower, dating from 1620. The clouds were beautiful o...

This shows the Lookout on of foggy day. It's a color photo; there just isn't much color to record. The Lookout was formerly a boa...

We heard some beautiful music last evening in a place of beautiful paintings. I did some research recently on a man who studied art as we...

This photo was taken in 1888. The young woman is my paternal grandmother. She loved dogs and I never knew her to be without one close at h...

My wife and I received a last-minute invitation to spend a weekend on a large lake in central Virginia. Formed barely a quarter century ag...

Plants come down to my basement office to take a rest, some to regain health and others to end their lives. They sit by a window in which...

April 2012 was warm and sunny when a niece married the love of her life in Long Beach but the groves of Giant Sequoia in the southern Sier...

This year the Tour is spending its first few days in England. The second stage began in York and moved west toward Skipton, then south to ...

A woman named Andrée Ruellan made this lithograph. She was an artist best known for showing ordinary people at work or play in New York C...

I took this early in June at Swarthmore College which boasts a fine arboretum. I didn't notice what tree sent forth these blossoms.