Picture (snagged from online source) of a large, faceted tigerskin quartz bead. Dull, bland and totally lacking character.  These w...

View from a hill on U.C. Berkeley campus - the city of Berkeley is unfortunately covered in a haze of fog - which is rather common for th...

Picture above from Wikipedia source, and photo is Public Domain.  The cluster of tall buildings near the water's edge happens to be t...

As far as the progress of my trip out West is concerned, I believe I left everyone at a rest stop in Oregon.  4th of July came into focus, a...

      May we take a moment to honor all the wonderful men and women who have given so much to make our world a better place.  Over...

History passes, if it is not recorded or preserved in some way it is soon forgotten and lost forever.

photo above - Blue Star Memorial plaque, Oregon.   It's time to head South and make our way toward California.  As we drove throug...

photo above - Part of the interior of XXX Root Beer Drive-in. In my last post I told you about how  John's old school chum, Ken,  s...

photo above - Ken on left.  My hubby, John, in light blue on right.   Before we left on our trip out west, my hubby, John,   was in c...

  Admittedly I am not a fan of class reunions but this was my hubby's 55th year reunion of his High School class of 1959, it was on...

  Photo above - Taken at the Hampton Hotel in Issaquah Washington . I found myself enchanted with this cool arrangement of hanging...

There was a time when I used to recover quickly from traveling but now that I'm . . . well, let us just say "older". . . i...

Update June 2, 2014-  On 8/26/2013 I blogged about a great new website market place for handcrafted arts and crafts items.   The site w...