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  • Strawberry Hill, USA

    If there is one “philosophy” that I practice as much as I talk about, I would have to say it’s buying local and fresh produce.  Sometimes it is difficult, but as spring progress and summer sets in, there is really… Continue reading

  • Insanity & a Winner

    “Mothers are all slightly insane.”  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye   It’s a full-time, over-worked Momma kind of week (and it’s only Tuesday);  volleyball practices, monitoring students during standardized tests at school, doctor’s appointments, passport issues, dishwasher broken,… Continue reading

  • The World is a Rose…

    “I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.”  ~Lucy Maude Montgomery ~ Anne of the Island   David Austin “Christopher Marlowe” English Rose   The pitiful rose bush… Continue reading

  • Derby Days

    One of the sweetest and most elegant exhibitions of gracious Southern living at it’s finest is exemplified each May in the Kentucky Derby.  For 17 years now, Audley and I have spent the first Saturday in May caught up in… Continue reading