Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese frosting
For years my brother and I competed for the honor of “Best Carrot Cake.” Eventually I gave in and told him “You win! You make the Thanksgiving carrot cake from now to eternity.” He tried to get me to take on that task after a few years, but I declined. I must say, I…
Kaufman’s Nana Bread
I’ve been making this banana bread recipe since Meg passed it on in the early 1970’s. She was at my house last year, and when I said I still made her banana bread, she asked “Which one?” Upon listing the crunchy peanut butter she smiled and said something…
Brunswick Stew
The time honored recipe that I learned for Brunswick Stew involved 3 or 4 squirrels, a rabbit and maybe a possum (or some other roadkill). Or squirrel, rabbit and chicken at least. Needless to say, I scared a priest from New York (NYC) by explaining this before I…
Camera time and old friends
Back in early late May/early June a friend from high school (ok, so we’ve probably known each other since elementary school dance classes) came for a few days to visit. We entertained ourselves one morning by wandering around with our cameras — love this…
testing embeds
I’d like this to be the full width of the post… alas that seems to be a problem if I use the Slideshare block. Seems ok if I use Slideshare shortcode to embed. Life of St. Agostina Pietrantoni…
Mailchimp rides again
I use Mailchimp on some other sites to get out updates from the blog function. Seems to work ok generating an email from an RSS feed. But, there are problems: the standard WordPress RSS doesn’t send the featured images in the RSS feed. I like my images to show…
how to do post formats
I once studied to be an oceanographer… but alas I didn’t wind up working in that field. That doesn’t mean that the ocean is less fascinating to me. I just work with it differently.
Let try a custom reusable block!
This post contains a couple of videos — one is from Youtube and the other is a Slideshare. I guess that’s a mixed message.
An afternoon at Holy Trinity
I had some time to play with the camera today over at Blessed Trinity Shrine Retreat (Ft. Mitchell, AL). The light was bright and clear. This is truly Holy Ground. One of my special places in this world.
On to Philly and Longwood Gardens
After saying farewell to Marty, and Bruce and Gene (not pictured anywhere) and departing Emmitsburg we proceeded on to Philadelphia (Germantown). Why I took no pictures in Germantown, I have no idea. But, we ventured south to visit Longwood Gardens.
