The Cocoa Tree By Any Other Name – Chocolate I love having new experiences, at a certain age, ‘firsts’ can be harder to come by, but the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens offered me a first – a look at cocoa pods hanging on the tree! Looking up, at this tree,...
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The Morpho Peleides Or The Brilliant Blue Butterfly! We were invited to spend a perfect Sunday afternoon, at The Fairchild Garden, by our dear friends; most assuredly, In The Garden, shall soon radiate with snaps of this Edenic paradise. However the breathtaking flora was accompanied by some rather marvelous fauna, as well...
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The Upper Room Chapel and Christian Art Museum If you find your needs for country music filled, and would like to step away from the merriment for a time of reflection, I would like to suggest a visit to The Upper Room Chapel and Christian Art Museum. This chapel and...
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Papaya And Mango Chutney When I was in seventh grade we moved to Hawaii, and it was there that I was introduced to the wonders of papaya, which was incredibly plentiful, and thus not a delicacy to be savored on rare occasions. The Hawaiian papaya is smaller and sweeter than the Mexican...
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A View of Sam Houston Driving on the I-45, I spied the 77 foot tall sculpture of General Sam Houston, “A Tribute to Courage” and had to exit, to take a closer look; I do love how everything is always bigger in Texas! Approaching the General A view from the...
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Falling Water “A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright ~ It has been a good long while since the road took us to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water, but...
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Electronically Fit or Tracked Recently, I saw a social media post, which mentioned exactly how many steps someone had taken while on a vacation. When asked by someone else, how the individual knew how far they had walked, the person commented that their companions’ smart phone had kept track of the distance covered. At...
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Truth I keep remembering How you stepped back Then drew closer Whispering in my ear You asked me what I wanted I respond Truth You told me I could have anything My answer did not change Truth You said my wish was your command I said only one thing...
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Pineapple Upside Down Cake I remember marveling, at my Mother’s ingenuity, the first time I saw her create a pineapple upside down cake. I had trouble understanding this whole idea of baking the cake upside down and was even more amazed when this golden beauty appeared, once she lifted up the cast...
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The Miami Herald Responds to Raúl Castro “‘Give me the list now of political prisoners to release,’ a rattled Raúl Castro replied to a questioner from CNN at a rare news conference that he was obliged to attend because it’s the custom for American presidents on foreign visits: ‘If there are political prisoners,...
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