A digital postcard from Glover Gardens with scarlet Lord Baltimore blooms.

A Glover Gardens reader shares childhood memories of seafood boils: “total freedom and good eating in a safe corner of the world”. Bay St. Louis, Mississippi is one of Expedia’s Most Beautiful Towns in America list, and now on my Must-Go list.

Celebrating kindred spirits, serendipity and Great Blue Herons on the Bolivar Peninsula.

The summer months bring a welcome flurry of jazzy sounds to Glover Gardens. Here’s the newest recording from a couple of musical millennials with very bright futures, Thomas Wenglinski and Joel White.

Nature is all the entertainment we need here at Little House in the Rockies, our little cabin in Central Colorado. A visit from a cute little Peter Cottontail enabled a mid-hop bunny photo.

A “grateful for nature” haiku from Little House in the Rockies, where absolute peace and tranquility abound.

Spring is breaking out early, and the birds are all over here at Glover Gardens. Check out the portraits of Mama Cardinal, and a haiku for #NaHaiWriMo.

Close your eyes after taking just one bite of the Spaghetti Carbonara at Da Corradi in London and you’ll expect to find Northern Italy when you open them.

Fiona and Godfrey: variations on a cat-napping theme.

Star anise’s fragrant perfume is redolent of licorice and promise.

Americana abounds at the 2018 Chili Cookoff in tiny Round Top, Texas (pop. 90).

Headed out to the Round Top Chili Cookoff with friends today, I’m inspired to reblog this post from last year. It’s a tale of a chili cook-off fundraiser in a tiny Texas town, two friends, five gallons of spilled chili, dozens of kind people and…

Is this little bird thinking what a great day it is to be a bird in the sunshine, in a sanctuary-like environment where the predators wear warning bells and the feeders are always full?

Café Louise provides a warm-me-up on a super-cold Paris first Sunday after a power walk from the Arch de Triomphe to St. Germain.

50-year old photographs celebrate the birthday and memory of one who left us too soon: Steven Thomas Harvell.

Photos from home keep me grounded in Glover Gardens when I travel.

The World Series awakens baseball memories, and an appreciation of ancient Astros mementos.

Delectable food at an unfussy, delightful local restaurant makes a perfect birthday brunch. The mimosas don’t hurt, either.

A rare evening alone spawns a special nacho dinner to pair with a Masterpiece Hercule Poirot (by Agatha Christie) story.

This rough little poem came spilling out of me as I thought of those halcyon sand-ridden childhood days and so many memories flooded in. Everything seemed so safe, so permanent, so lively-lovely in our tiny town of 600, Gilchrist, Texas.