Beautiful images from Montmartre in Paris.

Best sentence I heard all day,  maybe even all week, from a peer at another company, one of the funniest and liveliest people I know: I’m going to be all patios and tacos this weekend. She’s got the right idea – let the weekend begin!

Haiku honoring an indulgent weeknight dinner choice: Southwest Eggs Benedict for One.

A classic love song from the great American songbook, to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

Haiku about the transcendence of living in the moment.

This vintage Krups juicer is the go-to for getting every last drop of citrus juice. It has powered many a margarita.

Simple pleasures: an Austin bridge at sunset, music and a son’s deep sense of place.

A tiny dinner party with the Grill-Meister’s international colleague landed me a new friend in his wife, a luminous, authentic, lovely lady. Thus the haiku.

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 a chance meeting with the governor.

Galveston Island: waters’ edge serenity, lovely autumn beach. Photo credits to my son, who took this photo on his 19th birthday, November 23, 2016. More Glover Gardens haiku can be found here.   Copyright 2016, Glover Gardens Cookbook

I am in love with our little cabin in central Colorado.  “Little House in the Rockies” inspires me to create recipes, snap photos, write essays, poems and haiku, birdwatch…in general, to revel in nature and absorb its beauty and regenerative spirit. Here’s one from a…

No story, no haiku, no poignant memories, just a photo this time of a peaceful and sunlit breakfast at the Houstonian Hotel.

Cat haiku and pictures, because the world doesn’t have enough. So I give you: Godfrey in repose.

Locavore luxury. Simple pleasures. Austin farmers’ market treasures.

Godfrey and Fiona pose near the Talavera cat (bottom middle) to prove that art imitates life. Or is it the other way around?

Summer stayed with us well into September this year, releasing its stranglehold just this last week and enabling an enjoyable evening of wine and fruit by the pool here at Glover Gardens.  The hibiscus and roses are still blooming, but the leaves have begun to…

As I visit my Dad in the hospital each day, I realize how much I take the simple things in life for granted. Like this weeknight dinner party.

Nature’s resilience inspires me to write haiku.

It’s a gorgeous spring-came-early evening here in southeast Texas and the Grill-Meister and I are celebrating it by making dinner in the outdoor kitchen. Nothing fancy, just dishes that remind us of spring that we’ve made dozens of times and have already been captured here…

A shared meal is all about the fellowship.