A taste of the French Countryside, and its ever changing landscape, views captured from the TGV train. If you are planning a visit to France consider hopping the TGV (The French high speed, bullet train.) from Paris to Marseille for…

Growing up in Willows, a small town in Northern California, we had one or two places to go to if we wanted to shop, or if we wanted to see a movie, or go out to eat… Willows was, and…

My last night home was spent at my brother Zane's and sister in law Joy's home. We celebrated my mother's birthday. Joy prepared the dinner in her new kitchen. My cousin Gene and Kathy came over too, I helped them…

When I was a kid one of my mother's favorite things to do was to take my four brothers and I to find treasures at the junk yard. At that time there use to be a gravel pit outside of…

There was a Scarecrow Contest in my small childhood town.  My mom and her friend Holly decided to enter. We knew without a doubt that it wouldn't be you typical Wizard of Oz type of Scarecrow that they would come…

   A storm was predicted. The rice farmers raced to take the crop off the fields, not because it would ruin the yield but because it would be difficult to harvest a crop laid out in the mud. Most of…