Redbud trees (cercis canadensis) are lovely additions to any yard. In the springtime they will be covered with pinky-purple flowers for several weeks. Around here, they are harbingers that winter is almost over. These flowers produce seed pods and these seed pods are spread, generously it would appear in our yard, by the wind and […]
I suppose it says something about the state of daytime, or anytime, TV for that matter, but we have recently discovered the INSP channel. It deals in Westerns, both movies and TV shows and we have become faithful fans of the once-and-beloved series Wagon Train. The series ran from 1957-1965, evolving for black and white […]
We recently had the opportunity to cruise the Northwest Passage from Nome to Greenland on the National Geographic/Lindblad ship Endurance. This is the route searched for for decades, most of the attempts ending either in failure or tragedy. Finally, in 1906, Roald Amundsen successfully navigated it. We had a wonderful expedition team of professionals and […]