I’m having a good tomato year and I can’t seem to stop taking photos. I’ve gotten enough tomatoes from my five plants to try a little canning. I bring them inside when they have started to turn red. I’m reminded of my grandma’s table, on her porch, where she would lay out all her ripening…

I’m way behind posting – we started off our August with a raclette feast. It was Swiss National Day and also a sending-off celebration for Bea. She’s off to Vienna taking some more German lessons at the University. She said she sees this view everyday. And she’s sent other nice photos of Vienna and a…

A pie – used the delicious blueberries that we picked in Michigan. Some more itty bitty art for the Little Free Art Gallery And I’m working on a stripy sweater – lots of knitting in the hammock. Time to start the sleeves.

We’ve have had the best weather over that past week or so – days in the 80s and cool nights. The garden is at the wild unruly stage and some things are starting to fade. And the cicadas are doing their thing so it’s slightly deafening outside. Anyway, here are some photos of lovely colorful…

Claire and I spent last week visiting Michigan. We started off with a quick trip to Tawas. Jennifer took us for a walk along the water and we looked for Petosky stones. Claire learned how to pump gas. Then we spent a day at the Tawas Bay Yacht Club. Swimming and relaxing and getting to…

Claire has a friend who started something she calls The Little Free Art Gallery. It’s like those little libraries that people put up but it holds art. So you make some art and leave it or you can take some art. It’s the sweetest thing ever! Claire and I added some art last week. I…

Brian turned 50 yesterday. We had a little celebration – just the three of us. We went out for a yummy dinner at a restaurant called Ada Street and then had cake at home. It’s frustratingly hard to get something special for this person who gives us everything. He has to settle for a nice…

While Bea is away and Brian is often traveling for work – Claire and I are holding down the fort.  Claire is learning to drive this summer so I’m either driving her to and from driver’s ed or I’m riding around in the passenger seat helping her practice. It’s been fun. Otherwise I’m up to…

Conveniently the trains are set up with space for bikes. They started in Vienna and Brian rode between 75 and 110 miles each day. They stopped in Melk, Linz, Salzburg and Innsbruck – staying near the Danube most of the time. So 402 miles of riding for Brian and the two of them got to…