An Old Recipe for Scented Lavender Ink

Lavender from My Backyard Garden

Ever need to post something to calm and refresh yourself? That is what this simple photograph of lavender is meant to do for me this evening. I imagine breathing deeply in the plants and feeling a gentle relaxation overcome me.

I have had this recipe for many years, and [...]

Architectural Beauty

Turn of the 20th Century Mansion, Quincy Illinois

Detail of Roof, Including Wrought Iron Tulip Garden

This house in part of a several block stretch of turn-of-the-20th Century homes built on Maine Street in Quincy Illinois. Each home is more fascinating than the last. I love the wrought iron detailing on the roof [...]

Piano in Black and White

Piano Leg and Reflection

Taliesin Gardens and Asian Sculptures

Asian Sculpture in Frank Lloyd Wright's Garden

Wright's Crane Sculpture from Japan in Taliesin's Garden

Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio in Spring Green, Wiscosnin, has several gardens also designed by Wright. (If you know much about FLW, perhaps you know that Wright designed everything connected with his homes. He was not [...]

Graffiti Train

Train Graffiti

Blue Crazed Graffiti

Train graffiti

Trains stopped on the rails west of Madison.

What Better on a Hot Summer Night…

…than taking a stroll to the corner dairy store for a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a Safe-T Cup cone? When I was a kid, the ice cream always dripped faster than I could lick it and my arm would be streaked with the sweet stickiness to my elbow. And the cone? It [...]