Sunday, April 15 was a sunny day and a great one to make our first beach outing of 2021. A year ago we wouldn’t have been able to bring our...

  Richmond, Va. is a medium-sized Southern city (population approximately 225,000) with a nice mix of the old and the new. This was my stomp...

Richmond’s marquee thoroughfare had a rough 2020. It was not the coronavirus pandemic that brought drastic changes to Monument Avenue . It ...

  Lt. Gen. Lewis Burwell Puller (1898-1971) had the unique nickname Chesty. Perhaps he earned it for the dozens of medals he wore on his ch...

Easter time was our first getaway trip since a visit to Hilton Head last summer. It was nice to take in some different scenery (even Pedro a...

  They are dormant for maybe 46 weeks of the year. But come March the countdown begins for the lovely  azaleas to put some real spring into...

  It was good to get out of the house Sunday and make the lengthy drive south to the ACE Basin . The vast protected preserve is worth the dr...

A Saturday outing to Sullivan’s Island turned out to be a very fun day. Winter? Not this day, more like a summer day based on the warm weath...

 The last day of February brought a neat treat Sunday morning as I was reading the newspaper on my back porch. This is why if I’m sitting ou...

Yesterday was a rare clear dry day this winter, so I was able to enjoy some cool (literally with the temperature in the 50s) back porch time...