Thanks to all the rain a couple weeks ago and the hot weather the past week, my daffodils are already several inches high. Pretty but stupid, perfect for Southern California

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

Now that it's officially September I'm getting autumn fever. Unfortunately autumn in California means hot winds and little in the way of changing leaf colors ( Read more... )

I miss the crackly cold days with the blue blue skies without a single cloud scuttling past, where the bite of the wind may occasionally nip through your sweater but a jacket is betrayal to the very Autumnness. A day to go to Long Grove and watch the apples churn, drink the sweet fresh cider and nibble on a still-warm apple doughnut, browse the ( Read more... )

First Christmas away from home. I'm already feeling it. No snow, no cold, nothing to differentiate it from the rest of the year except for tacky icicle lights hung by people who may never have seen a real icicle. Thanksgiving was difficult enough since it always was my combo birthday party as well, but Christmas...Christmas was my mother's ( Read more... )