Not-Quite-Country Girl

Everyone in the Midwest has the same tale to tell...Saturday brought a major winter storm, ushered in by a huge cold front that held us captive in a deep freeze over the weekend.

Saturday was a perfect January day in Hoosierland...a snow globe day!

While I love many things about Indiana winters, I don't enjoy the often-long strings of gray, dreary, gloomy, cloudy days.

I don't do Black Friday.  In general, I don't do any more shopping than absolutely necessary.

The week before Thanksgiving (yes, I'm a bit behind...) we awoke inside our cozy cabin to an ice-covered world on the other side of our windows.

Driving the back roads to my house last Friday, I came upon a group of 4 sandhill cranes in a rain-soaked soybean field.

October is truly one of my favorite months of the entire year...and how quickly it passed this year!

Hello, Autumn.

My rookie monarch-raising season has come to a close.

Even though it's still hot and the calendar says the beginning of autumn is yet a couple of weeks away, Labor Day always feels like the unofficial end of summer.