A neighbor's horse farm on a hazy morning.

The late September air seems to urge us to get busy. Only a couple of days ago, we awoke to a temperature of 38 degrees...it felt as if the...

A snapshot of the garden's variety of peppers...the colors seemed oh-so pretty together, especially that pop from the purple bell pepper...

Having found our farmhouse kitchen filled with tomatoes (translation: tomatoes on windowsills, overflowing from baskets, and rolling off co...

I'm a true-blue chocoholic...so trust me when I say that this cake is sure to fill any chocolate cravings you may have.  It's so ...

Time flies, as the old saying goes, and boy did this summer fly by. The kids are back in school in just a couple short weeks, and now is the...

I can't remember the last time I found one of these...  I'm sure I was just a kid... I have one pressed between the pages ...

Even though we have our own garden, it's fun to see what goodies arrive in our weekly CSA box. It comes from the nicest family farm ...

This adorable face greeted us on a recent visit to our 4-H adviser's farm ! Look no more for your daily dose of cuteness than this...

 nature's sweetener... liquid gold... the Greeks even called it the nectar of the gods... Whatever you like to call it, we...

Ahhh, today is one of those days that will surely bring up opposite points of view. To some, (me), it's hard to believe the days will ...

When we see this rolling field,  and the cupola with a distinctive llama at the top... we know we're getting close to the ll...

Some spots in our our flower gardens just need a little pop of color. The flowerbeds on the west side of our house, which should have lots ...

Well, my next post was supposed to show you the whimsical what-not's I'd been creating for our flowerbeds... but no...it didn...

  During this merry month of May, it's been a joy to putter in flower gardens, listen to the buzzing of bees, and wake to so...

It was a lovely weekend here in the Midwest, and we all enjoyed the breezy, sunshiny, blue-skied days of spring. For Mothers' Day thi...