Pie connoisseurs are often guilty of a grievous omission in omitting the tomato from their repertoire. Tomatoes were introduced to American households a few hundred years ago and have been a family staple and favorite ever since.  When a hungry eater thinks of pie, tomatoes generally don’t come up, (except for the infamous Italian variety….

World leaders convened in Paris in 2015 for the U.N. Climate Talks. Their task and hope was to pass a global treaty to reduce the impacts of global warming. On this site, are letters from authors, artists, scientists and world citizens, written to future generations of their own families, predicting the success or failure of…

The storm sent heavy rain yet it’s the wind that made the creek rise too fast. Overthrown, water rushed ever faster cutting through the levee as easily as a knife through butter, carrying mud and debris, making the house quiver. He didn’t break in panic but proved true and brave, undeterred by the danger he…

“One Swallow Doesn’t  Make a Summer.”                                        Once caught by the thousands to be used in women’s hats, eating insects literally on the fly, and returning year after year to the same nesting sites, the American Barn Swallow is one of the harbingers of summer. A beautiful low-flying bird, I always look forward to the…

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold,it would be a merrier world. – J.R.R. Tolkien When I was a kid we always had a garden growing. When it came time to pick tomatoes, my Dad would go out to the garden with a salt shaker in his back pocket….

It’s 104 out today here in Colusa County California. Made me think of sweet sun tea and a quick barbecue lunch. I gotta get home there’s a garden to tend All the seeds from the fruit buried and began Their own family trees, teach them thank you and please As they spread their own roots…