We unboxed a glorious sunset Tuesday night that turned out to be the last, perfect gift of this Christmas season. It is one thing to enjoy a beautiful sunset, it is quite another to watch it unfurl with someone who takes as much delight in such things as you do. That's what happened to my [...]
Just east of Harry Houdini's synagogue and the newspaper building Edna Ferber once roamed, a photogenic owl family has become Appleton's newest Who's hoo hoo hoooo. Birders, photographers and curious wanderers flock to the park to study and capture the unusual scene. Science enthusiasts and small children study the pellets they leave behind. And, high [...]
The older I get the more I appreciate the winter solstice. I love that it arrives so early in winter and offers us such a consistent example of hope. Before we even get a chance to get frustrated by the ice and wind, we already know it won't last. The temperature may dip low, but [...]
Here's December's secret: there's magic in the air. And each sleeting windstorm carries it somewhere. It dusts the ground below your feet to lighten up your step and turns your boots to dancing shoes, your schlep to pirouette. The season can be tricky when folks carry such a load and all their Christmas wishes can't [...]
We spent an impossibly beautiful November afternoon at Salm's Hickory Hill Farm, where one of us took a horseback riding lesson and the other scurried around like a madwoman muttering to herself about golden hours, sunsets and the light. I'm not sure there's anything more beautiful than the golden hour of an autumn day, even [...]