Pleasant View Schoolhouse

"He found the chain store, bright and full of brisk business. Everybody was there inspecting trays of vegetables, buying great creamy s...

So this is Felix's china. Is it perfect or what? These Homer Laughlin budgies are absolutely adorable. I love how the blue sings right o...

Remember this project ? I started it in January and knitted hard through the first part of the winter, much of it while caring for my grandm...

My mother, a dish addict, recently realized that each of my children needed a set of dishes against the day when they set up housekeeping. N...

"For a girl who had a home and dear family to leave them to get along without her as best they could, and go away for a fuller freedom,...

Vintage sewing patterns for baby layettes are irresistible--I just can't get enough of the sweet cover drawings. Of course, the patterns...

One last family get-together to celebrate the end of summer. And to celebrate the newly-stained deck, accomplished by the sweat of the combi...

So we've sort of turned into a running family over the last year. The Composer started it, then Felix started, then Giles joined in, and...

One last sewing project this week--a cobbler's apron for Clara to match Daisy's dress. Same floral, same red binding. I've used ...

Felix offers these book and magazine recommendations for beginning birders: The Sibley Guide to Birds , David Allen Sibley. "The best f...

So, so dear. Big pockets, knock knees. Red roses on lavender.

This morning for half an hour the moonflowers were visited by a swarm of honeybees.

Can you go wrong decorating a cake with naturally gorgeous fruit? No you cannot. Love the almost-neon contrasts of the glowing kiwi fruit an...

"She took care to arrange the wrists [of her dress] with extra snap catches so that she might unfasten them and roll the sleeves above ...

Isn't this a fabulous pattern cover? I don't know whether to choose the little girl pulling the train or the one with handfuls of su...

This week Carol and I provided an after-the-funeral meal for a friend. We held it at our church and served about thirty people. It was fun t...

Last week we piled in the car for a string of errands. "Mommy! You're still wearing your apron!" exclaimed Bella. I told her I...

The bronze fennel seeds freely in my flowerbeds and hosts generation after generation of black swallowtail caterpillars. Often a group of th...

Such a quiet evening. Two black vultures hopped from tree to tree overhead, before they flew out over the canyon. Daisy prided herself on he...

My blue kitchen walls are inspiring me in all kinds of ways, most recently towards the soft copper color of this new vintage breadbox. I lov...