• My Country

    Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. — Mark Twain Every Holiday requires a celebration in our home including, of course, the 4th of July. We start in the afternoon with a cookout and finish with a concert in the park and fireworks. We use to have…

  • I Believe

    No man believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw The photo above is my feeble attempt at gardening. I have found that grass is forgiving, so I plant lots of it. I wish I could be more like my friend, Barb…

  • Quotable

    I’m a day late in my usual post. In the mean time, another of my favorite quotes. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Charles Spurgeon

  • Be Happy

    Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their mind to be. Abraham Lincoln It’s true, happiness is a state of mind.That being said, it helps to surround yourself with what you love. The loved ones in our lives can’t always be there, yet we can work to be enveloped by things that…

  • Saving Our Museums

    A soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. Plato, The Republic of Plato My October visit to the Littleton Historical Museum seemed as though I had stepped across a portal to another time.The 1890’s farm house was the first thing that came into view. I thought I…

  • C’est la Vie

    Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect. Margaret Mitchell Th Dome Des Invalides houses the tomb of Napoleon. The tomb, itself is not very large. He was a small man with a high opinion of himself. Hence the term, Napoleon complex. Napoleon suffered many set backs in his life time. I…

  • Flower of the Lily

    A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. Jiddu Krishnamurti When my sister sent me an Etsy gift card for my birthday and told me to find something French, I didn’t have to look long. I put her card together with one from my husband and…

  • A Coronation Tale

    This years tulips at the Denver Botanic Gardens The prince watched his father’s Coronation, thinking that one day he will be the one wearing the crown. Next to the new king sat the wicked step-mother who had just been crowned queen. How could the prince not think about his mother? She should have been queen.…

  • Flowers and Books

    How to be happy when you are miserable. Plant Japanese poppies with cornflowers and mignonette, and bed out the petunias among the sweet peas so that they shall scent each other. See the sweet peas coming up. Drink very good tea out of a thin Worcester cup of a color between apricot and pink. Rumer…