Look what appeared on the back of my Adirondack chair this evening. A grey tree frog, resting. I tried to get a view of his little...

Summer is so lovely. Long evenings, bees buzzing, butterflies flitting.  Especially when one of your many gardens looks like this. F...

 I love poppies and have good luck with my gorgeous salmon-coloured ones that bloom each year.  I've notice that the 1950s and ...

Last week I had the pleasure of teaching 10 kids how to decorate cookies. It was part of a week-long mini-chefs camp. At the end if the we...

 I've always loved the graphics of tablecloths from the '50s and '60s.  This souvenir of Florida tablecloth is especia...

This recipe ran in last week's Ottawa Citizen and since I have scads of chard in the garden, I figured I'd give it a try. Yummy! C...

Fifteen years ago I wrote and illustrated this book published in the U.S. It seems that last spring the publishers decided to not only rep...

The flowers around here are gorgeous this time of year...I really have to start photographing them. I was in Richard's vegetable garde...

 A few years back I blogged about this sweet tree...  .. .growing in a little park in beautiful downtown Alexandria.  When our t...

 A few weeks back I got to meet a two-week-old kitten that my friends brought to a party.  His name is Ipse and he was found in a w...

Canada Day in my small town of Alexandria, Ontario. It stated off pouring but just as the parade swung into action, it was a mere drizzle...