photo from Tucson in January One of the things I have learned about getting old is that it wasn't anything like what I expecte...

It seems to me that I have written, I don't have anything to write, so many times recently that I could just go ditto. It's not th...

How do we keep a positive attitude in a time when so much seems to be going wrong? I wish I had better answers to that question, but I th...

This is a topic I wrote about for Rain Trueax but readers here might also find of interest--  What makes a novel considered literary...

Here is a two posts for one day- Diane Widler Wenzel is in a new show opening Tuesday at the LaSells Center in Corvallis. If you are anywh...

This has been a week of getting the yard geared up for summer. I am fine with that and enjoying it a lot-- despite concern that if we don...

It has been a quiet week. There must be something going on-- except I am not sure there is. The weather here has been nice. As I write, o...

My life has been entwined with images and words as I consider the right cover for the last of the Diablo Canyon Trilogy which will be out in...

  wildflowers-- blue flags Lately my weeks do not have a pattern to them. There are, of course, those things I must plan-- like gettin...

These bees are on the move. May 13th we saw a very active swarm had settled into one of our pear trees. We were not sure if this was to be...

  Cytisus scoparius, Scotch broom, regarded as a noxious weed by many, quite prolific in my part of Oregon. It has lovely flowers in the ...

While I have committed that I won't do politics here (I have the Rants for that), I did say I would do cultural issues and I thin...

The bees and hummingbirds all love the columbine. The columbine season keeps the cats out of their yard for obvious reasons.

This week I got an interesting email from Samuel Bowling, from Single Hop , asking if I'd take part in Choose Privacy Week (May 1-7...

It was interesting for me to do a whole series, a week long, of bees and blossoms. It's been beautiful to see them hovering over the ap...