September 8th, 2011

I stumbled across this great video of Antarctica recently. I love how it shows so much of the beautiful scenery intermingled with what it is like to live there.

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June 10th, 2011

Twenty years ago during the summer of 1991, a friend and I drove across Canada from Michigan to Niagara Falls. I still remember how impressed we were with the cleanliness and variety of offerings at the rest areas along the highway and how friendly were all the locals. The falls were, of course, quite breathtaking [...]

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May 21st, 2011

Summer is right around the corner and we’re eager to start seeing lovely, graceful dragonflies flying around our garden. Mosquitoes aren’t as problematic here in Seattle as they are in other areas of the country but we’re most appreciative of the local dragonflies who keep down the population of mosquitoes and other insects. I was [...]

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February 6th, 2011

Ten years ago this month I was way down south traveling through Argentina and along the Antarctic Peninsula–one of the most amazing adventures of my life. In this photo still taken from a video, I’m standing at the ship’s rail as we sail past Cape Horn at the southern tip of Chile. The Cape is [...]

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December 1st, 2010

We are quite fond of gingerbread people here in the Mitchell household. It’s one of our favorite holiday traditions. We found some wonderful gingerbread people designs over at Zazzle.com that are on the top of our wish lists! We really like the dissected gingerbread man and the gingerbread man with the “no-bite-himself” collar. Too cute! [...]

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October 31st, 2010

Here in my household we love Winnie the Pooh and all his friends! This year for Halloween we’re trick or treating and partying Pooh-style. My 6-month-old nephew Jayden took turns dressing up as Pooh’s honey pot and Pooh’s friend Tigger. He looked terribly cute in both costumes so we let him wear both! Funny story [...]

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August 14th, 2010

I’m helping several friends and family celebrate their birthdays this month and I’m enjoying this month’s flower. The lovely, graceful gladiolus is August’s birth flower and symbolizes sincerity and strength of character. Gladiola come in a variety of colors including pink, peach, burgundy, yellow, orange, white, and red. Gladiola are perfect cut flowers: tall and [...]

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