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Driving Around Florida Day 1
For the last week of 2025 and the start of 2026 I’m going to do a bit of cross posting from our trip to Florida. And really, who doesn’t want to see warm 78° sunshine and ocean at the end of December beginning of January. As I mentioned in my previous post, Van Work and
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Van Work and Sunsets
We have been working super hard on the van conversion over the last few months in anticipation of getting to go someplace warm in December. Florida is pretty much the only place warmer than where we are, so that was the plan back in the great heat of the summer. A few weeks ago we
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Handmade Wood Art Jewelry
I have posted a lot of different photos of a lot of different things on my site over the years, but I think this is the first handmade wooden art jewelry that has come across my desk. These pieces were donated by Deborah to our local hospital for the 2025 EAMC Foundation 12 Days of
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Tall Bearded Iris Ziggy and Van Work
When I posted the blooms from our Tall Bearded Iris Immortality a few weeks ago I thought that was going to be the very last bloom of the summer-fall season, until a few days ago. We had a super surprise bloom of our Tall Bearded Iris called Ziggy, and it went bonkers. The temps in
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A Restored Handmade Cradle from 1970
Today is something a little different for my Throwback Thursday post and includes a bit of family history. The throwback photos this time come with images taken in August 1970 and this morning, October 30th 2025, of the same item. A handmade cradle. This cradle was handmade by my Great Grandad when my parents were
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Dark Mornings and Van Conversion Work
It is that time of year around here where the sun doesn’t come up until almost 7am. We are located right on the edge of the Eastern and Central time zones so the weeks right before Daylight Savings Time changes is a dark weird time (although a few years ago we thought we were done
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Tall Bearded Iris Immortality
We had one more flower blooming hurrah for the end of summer, the all white bloom of the Tall Bearded Iris variety called Immortality. As I mentioned in a previous post when we had a Surprise Late-Blooming Light Purple Iris we could have one more bulb bloom this fall, a pure white bulb, and this
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Taking Photos of Birds in Flight
I love watching birds flying through the sky, floating on the air currents. One of the most common sites in our area are the Turkey Vultures riding the thermals above where the student pilots fly their Cessna trainers. These huge birds sometimes gather in such great numbers they look like they are flying in formation,
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Cotton Rose Ends Our Summer Blooms
Today is Monday, so I went out and shot some Macro Monday blooms for this weekly series post. All of the images below were taken this morning (October 6th) using a macro setup, my Nikon D850 and the 105mm macro lens. Only the second shot below is actually a true macro image though. The blooms
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Van Build Friday Feet
This year I have made an attempt to get better at posting more often to my various weekly series posts, so today, for my Friday Feet update, it’s a little bit of our van build. This week I’ve been working on the garage area (aka the trunk, the boot) which contains a compartment for tools
