Early Spring in North Carolina

The bodacious Valentine's Day roses have become dried flowers - still beautiful as they fade - cannot toss them away so they will languish in a precious tiny English cut glass vase given to me years ago by my Mother.

Meanwhile, Spring seems to have arrived with several warm, sunny days. My pair of Carolina wrens are busy building a nest in the kitchen window box for the fourth year running. It's tucked under a clump of purple pansies and a small conifer - I hope to get a new family to watch as I wash dishes!

Still playing with my new toy.................

Looking across "the pond" from England on a Winter's Day

This could become addictive! Anyone else out there, please tell me how you stay away from your blog. Do you check it constantly or have a specific time of day set aside to check, post, or read other peoples' blogs? Guess it depends on how often you can access your computer, whether you work, or like me, are retired and have a bit more freedom - luverly!!!

A new day - my first post!

Well I did it - made the decision to become a Blogger even though it's such an unattractive, lumpy sounding name! I hope to share thoughts and passions for my home here in the United States, along with those I still hold dear to my heart for the place of my birth in beautiful Devon, England, with a little bit of the South of France thrown in for extra measure as my brother and his family live there.

Hopefully I will learn the tricks of this new trade and be able to share pictures of things I love, places I visit, items I create, and thoughts I think, and in turn share in things you may be passionate about in your life.