Lidl Let Us Down

Lidl Let Us Down

July 6th, 2022 | Cooking, Kitchen and Table, General

Long ago, during an excursion to France, my Dear One and I discovered pâtes de fruit, lovely little fruit jellies in the most marvelous flavors. Not just strawberry and apricot, raspberry and pear, but coing (quince) and our most favorite, black currant. These...
Dying For What One Believes?

Dying For What One Believes?

September 20th, 2021 | General, Health, Politics, social media

It is Sunday, July 19, 2021, as I write. I read the COVID statistics published in The Baltimore Sun every day, have been since they began printing that little gray box in the paper. I noticed today, with shock, that the death toll had jumped by four in Harford County,...
One Day At A Time

One Day At A Time

July 5th, 2021 | Gardens and Gardening, General

Some summers back I bought a couple of bedraggled hemerocallis from Home Depot, hoping they might fill a couple of awkward spaces in my garden. A deep discount added motivation. They were quite a lovely color, too, shades of purple and yellow. I seem to have lost the...
Carry On Into Midsummer

Carry On Into Midsummer

June 16th, 2021 | Gardens and Gardening, General

Sixty-four degrees under light rain after too little precipitation and days in the nineties? That’s a gardening day. I pull weeds from the forgiving mud, deadhead the foxglove, penstemon, columbine and roses, and contemplate the possibility of adding a few plants...