Sometimes you just want pancakes for breakfast.  Especially when it's mid-September and the air suddenly turns crisp and you fling open ...

Each year as Summer seems never-ending and unbearable, my thoughts turn toward Monticello , Thomas Jefferson's dear home here in Virgini...

Amid the daily chores and hurried errands and never-ending sound of the air conditioning unit, it happened. The 'clever North wind...

Have you seen them?  All those pins on Pinterest and photos on Flickr of potato towers?  It's a new-er way to grow potatoes in a small s...

Fresh-picked figs... so lovely and so lucious!  They are fragile and must be handled with care, but when you cut into one, it's a riot o...