Yearly Archives: 2017

Watching the zookeeper at the National Zoo give an elephant a pedicure I realized I had never thought about elephant toes. Why had I never noticed that elephants have toes? Like an earworm song that sticks in your mind, and will not leave no matter how much you try, I couldn’t shake the thought that I...

This is a short version of a reading shared with a friend in our younger days. Our lives were busy we didn’t always have time to read the full version. When one of us was complaining about a challenge in our lives, the other would simply say,  “Live today, yesterday is done, and who knows what’s...

Trips to visit my great Aunt Hilda were always an adventure. She was an antique dealer and had a lot of collectables in her little home. The front room was well organized just in case a buyer called looking for a specific piece. For a kid, the adventure was walking through the house without knocking over...

I have driven the country roads between our farms thousands of times. Most often I am thinking about what I have to do next after my roadside crop check. Earlier this summer I stopped, set up my gear, and shot this image of a field near one of our farms. We needed rain. I focused on...