Ten years ago, in early autumn of 2012, we made our first trip to Ft. Myers, Florida. My brother-in-law and his wife had purchased a mobile home in one of the many “55+ communities,” and they offered it to us for a week’s vacation. As soon as possible after landing…
To be brutally honest, I am not much of a horticulturist. So many times, we’ve been on a hike somewhere—doesn’t matter, desert, forest, alpine, meadow—we see a plant or tree and wonder what kind it is. I’d like to be more adept in the field, but like anything else, it…
In my brief six-plus decades, not much stands out as particularly strange. I may be thought strange, but as far as strange things happening to me, they’ve been few and far between. In fact, I tried to scan the memory banks of my childhood, I couldn’t come up with much…
A little over seven years ago, thanks to the generosity of some good friends, we spent a week in Palm Desert, California. Not my first choice in places to live, but sure is a great place to visit in early March! We flew into San Diego, hopped in the rental…
