Doves Today

Our house has a deck off the kitchen and livingroom that is a full story above our carport. When the weather is fine, we like to let Jack ou...

It's such a treat to tour great gardens that it inspires a fresh look at the garden at home. But what if you come back from viewing eleg...

There's not much going on these days, and I feel stale and uninspired, especially at work. But just recently I was presented with an op...

As long as you're painting an Aztec-themed mural on the wall of a hardware store, you might as well include a headphone-wearing penguin ...

When you think about garden tours, you usually think about seeing new sights, wonderful new inspirations, getting new ideas. But one of the ...

Day One of the Theodore Payne Foundation Native Plant Garden Tour was fantastic. I saw 12 gardens in 5 hours. I'm exhausted. And tomor...

Well, it's time to make a choice about spring sandals. I've been intrigued by the new "gladiator" style sandals, so I orde...

Each week Carmi at Written, Inc. has challenged readers with a theme for photographic inspiration . This week the photographic challenge con...

There's something about Topanga - you see a lot of interesting things in our canyon that you might not see elsewhere. It could be becau...