With Strings Attached

  The two Waukegan-based P.E.O. chapters had their joint holiday party yesterday afternoon.  Though neither is my chapter, I knew most every...

At this time of year it's  easy to justify any personal purchase as "a Christmas gift to myself." Here's what arrived yest...

 It's been a quiet week so far.  Perhaps I'm simmering down after the disappointment of the election results, resigned to the announ...

  I crossed paths with a praying mantis at Illinois Beach State Park yesterday.   I tried to get a head-on photo but it moved too quickly. W...

  Our AAUW branch met in person last evening. I was happy to go for several reasons -- to see friends, to sell tickets for the holiday raffl...

  Barb M's estate sale began in September, 2023.  Paula and her friends were off in July and this September but were back this month.  A...

What an interesting cloud formation! I took the photo Monday afternoon at  Middlefork Savanna # # # # #  I took the Janome to Sew 'n...

  Lots of sunshine, mid-70's, no humidity = ideal for walking!  2.7 miles at Sun Lake on Monday afternoon.   It counts as two trails (be...

  Mr. and Mrs. Crane ambled through a back yard a couple of blocks away.  I saw them because someone else was taking a photo.    I was en ro...

  Surely I am not the only person wondering where July has gone!   My OMG was to make the quilt for the AAUW holiday raffle.  I finished it ...

  Monday afternoon:  a red admiral stopped long enough for a photo; a reddish mushroom 'protected' by poison ivy;  plantings on the ...

  My car registration is due in July and this is the year for its emissions test, so we went to the Waukegan testing station Monday.   The c...

Monday afternoon I presented "Every Quilt Tells a Story" to a women's group at my hometown church in Northbrook.  Though I hav...