Let me just say it’s been a long long time since I went diving anywhere, let alone off rocks into the ocean, but with the kids camping with their grandparents, I decided to take myself off to the beach. The tide was low, so low that I had to peer off the rocks several times […]

It’s kind of a big deal for me to up my reading game by taking on a children’s book translated into French. I am working at incorporating more French into my day and reading is a great way to use my brain and challenge myself. I lay down under the fruit trees in our little orchard […]

The rain held off and we even had some wind for the kites! My daughter’s 7th birthday was exhausting but loads of fun with an egg toss (not boiled), tree climbing, piñata hitting and of course cake and presents. All I can say is I’m grateful for my lovely daughter and her wild and happy […]

Ok, I love beetles, especially scarab beetles. There I said it. Perhaps this is why one is featured in my first story. But lately they’ve been landing on my deck. Not all the time but once in a while, I look over and this antannae’d creature is crawling/sometimes flying around. Last week, we had a green one stay […]

On Sunday we went to visit an island farm and met these Highland cows. What a treat to peer at their horns and shaggy manes.                                      

I’ve had a few quiet days around the garden and thought I’d share my latest bouquet with iris, delphinium, viburnum and columbine. I love these lazy days of May when the garden is bursting with green and the sun is hot enough to sunbathe. I’m reading about spending a month in the South of France and […]

We laughed and I cried over this charming Australian film about a dog called Red Dog! It’s on Netflix and from 2011. Great to see Australia and PG.

How great the May has knocked on the door and come inside. I actually changed into shorts before 10am. That might have had something to do with vacuuming but still. This is it! What we’ve been waiting for all year. I just got out in the garden yesterday after our soccer practice. Here are some […]