Fall is brown
Spring is soft and pink with flowering trees, summer is green as far as your eye can see and smells amazing, winter is white and hard some of the time, […]
Category Archives: Nostalgia
Back to the beginning
The pergola looks so bare, cos I just cut the beans down. We had our first hard freeze last night, so now everything out there is officially done. Several of […]
Open up a can of…… very old memories
I went around the corner to a neighbor’s garage sale and paid $1 for an old coffee can. It was just an interesting old can to them, but to me […]
Old family furniture
I’m so happy that some things from my family have been preserved. Some families don’t or can’t keep older things for whatever reason. This plank bottom chair and cherry drop […]
What a beautiful day for summer pleasures
It’s a beautiful day to enjoy summer’s pleasures while they last. Hang laundry on the line for that special fresh smell, pick some beans, gather some collards to freeze for […]
Grandma Trayer’s egg basket
It’s just an old basket, right? Actually it’s about 150 years old, and my uncle’s grandmother used it to gather the eggs from the chickens on the family farm. It’s not […]
It’s Fair time!
We have a great Fair here. It’s the 58th year, so something about it was always right. It’s also the largest bi-county Fair in Pennsylvania, since the town sits in […]
Rural Life Festival
My soon-to-be daughter in law and I went to a nice event, Rural Life Festival presented by Newburg United Methodist Church in the town of Newburg. Newburg is a little […]
My mother’s last words on life
My mother passed away on 5/23, after 87 years of adventure and a good life. She was tired and had suffered for several years before that, but tried to fight […]
My sundial, made by an exalted craftsman
My dad made this sundial. He was a wood pattern maker, and that’s an art and craft and profession that is slowly dying out. People now don’t know what […]
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