My younger brother and his wife recently purchased my grandmother's home. Grandma Antoinette lives in a retirement home in Seattle now, and when my uncles and aunts decided that it was time to sell the old family home (which has an enormous beach, beautiful grounds

Today we had a crazy thunder and lightning storm in Seattle (doesn't that weather vane photo look kind of eerie---like an image from a creepy Alfred Hitchcock movie trailer?! I shot it tonight at home when the thunderstorm was still raging). So, I packed up

I've always loved hydrangeas. In fact, it was the prominent flower in the arrangement (and bouquet) for my July 21 wedding almost 11 years ago! But, I nearly gasped when, the other day, I noticed that the hydrangea I planted as a tiny shrub in