I Love Summer!

I love summer! Summer has always been my favorite season. I don’t even really mind the heat. However, I definitely don’t like the bugs.  Around here, mosquitoes can really eat a person. Summer has a way of making me feel a bit like a kid again. Catching lightning bugs (fireflies), long days swimming, fishing, picking blackberries and playing my share

Trip to Missouri Botanical Gardens

Trip to Missouri Botanical Gardens We recently made a spontaneous trip to the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis, MO. My husband and I had to be in the area for other reasons and had some time to kill. Just the two of us. That doesn’t happen too often. We’ve learned to make dates out of just about any occasion