We had a lot going on in May! Liam joined us in Sawyer for a very nice overnight and Mother’s Day visit. Painterly sunsets (different day and beach but still Michigan) Baby animals are a delight in May. In order that they were spotted, teenaged goslings in Humboldt park Teeny…

We took a walk in the 606 and enjoyed a lot of pretty purples in bloom At the west end, there’s a sundial. The lines pointing to where the sun sets at solstices and equinoxes form an X rather than a + which is something fun and mystifying to think…

Goslings spotted in Humboldt park! The next day we saw another family with 2 goslings. Not the biggest expert but these seemed to me a couple of weeks old. That tracks since we usually see goslings the last week or so of April.

Yesterday we got about 4 inches of very dry and fluffy snow, which is super pretty and gives a soft finish to everything. We also found out that our street is plowed when it snows. The snow added a whole bunch of white color for the wind to work with,…

John had a work trip to Cancun the first week of February and then is going on another to San Diego next week, so we packed our warmest clothes to spend this week in Michigan. We’d seen the wintery shoreline in January so thought we knew what to expect, but…

Readers may be looking for a post with warm scenes of Mexico, but we stayed in the Midwest for all of January this year. And you know what? It’s really cold! Jan 20 was a big day in the world – and in addition to items that made the news,…

Some posts don’t naturally form around one theme but ‘ice’ is hands down an easy theme for this one! Last night we had tickets for the international puppet festival, and we saw ‘Anywhere’ – a performance with a marionette made of ice. The puppeteer lives in Iceland and as we…

We had so much fun in Madrid!