Brian brought my favorite vegetable, the romanesco cauliflower (or broccoli, if you prefer) home from the Hampshire College farm, Tuesday. It was already dark, so I couldn't get a great photo of it. As I suspected, Hester was very interested. I still...

I thought I'd post some pics. Full moon over the Norwottuck Rail trail late this afternoon. My beautiful sister Maureen and baby Evangeline, born Oct. 13 in a photo by my brother-in-law Marc. I love this photo by Marc of Meghan, Evangeline and Matt....

This is my friend Ellie, 49, a world traveler I met on my teaching English as a foreign language course in Thailand, this summer. While I came home after the course ended and am now a volunteer ESL tutor through the Jones Library, many of my...

Thought a bug and other creature post was in order, as a lot of my Facebook friends and UMass students have been receiving unwanted visits from these Asian ladybugs the past few days. They're known as Halloween bugs, according to About Amherst's...

Another beautiful day after a freezing cold weekend with snow. I got a video of Hester checking out the snowflakes --on Oct.16! I thought it was quite newsworthy at the time, but it turned out some of the neighboring towns at higher elevations got...