Words and Pixels

This poor neglected blog gets over a dozen spam messages every day. I've changed the comment moderation to allow only people with google...

A few pictures taken on today's bike ride. I shot these with my phone. 

I'd heard it was possible to overwinter amaryllis so I decided to try. This is an Aphrodite amaryllis. When fully open, the blooms are t...

Here are the rest of last weekends ice pictures. Click on the pictures to enlarge. The last two are the same ice formation fro...

I hike in the winter when it's too cold to ride my bike, so winter pictures tend to dominate this blog. This has been a warm winter, but...

Nothing like bright pink blossoms to ward off the gray skies of Michigan winters. Please drop by again  in a few days. I found a numb...

This year, we didn't have many bright, sunny days when the leaves were changing, so I couldn't get those lovely yellow, gold and red...