All good gifts

All good gifts

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 [...]

Appleton’s newest Who’s hoo hoo hoooo

Appleton’s newest Who’s hoo hoo hoooo

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 [...]

Beautiful horses and the golden hour

Beautiful horses and the golden hour

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 [...]