I got to fulfill a lifelong dream of mine recently. When I was in middle school we had to write a list of things that we wanted to do when we grew up. One of the things on my list […]
Renwick Gallery
My favorite Smithsonian museum by far and the one that I have to visit every time I’m in D.C. is the Renwick Gallery. This museum is dedicated to crafts. It is directly across from the White House by Lafayette Park […]
Jackson Forest
I headed out to California over the weekend to judge a trail ride. I was wooed with promises of the ocean and redwoods. I didn’t see any salt water but there were trees. I kept the truck in the picture […]
National Zoo
There were more than just trashy animals at the National Zoo. Of course the main draws are the real animals. The National Zoo is famous for their pandas. It was hot.  They were sleeping inside. It was so hot that […]
Trashy Art at the National Zoo
When we went to the National Zoo in July there was an exhibit of animal art made out of trash that was found in the ocean. These were scattered throughout the zoo. There were several near the entrance. I heard […]
United States Botanic Gardens
I never even realized that there was a United States Botanical Garden until the torture/interrogation scene in Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol that takes place in the middle of the jungle room. I’m not sure what that says about me […]
Photowalk
It was time for a spring photo walk around the neighborhood with Freckles where I take pictures of flowers and try not to look like I’m casing the joint. I have baby blueberries! I planted two blueberries in containers last […]
Gone to the Birds
We went off for an early spring walk around the wooded trails at our local nature center. Not much was in bloom yet but there were a few early risers. This flowering quince had a bird nestled in and singing […]
Halloween 2015
Halloween is my favorite holiday. I have to put a lot of thought into my costume. I have to be able to work in it. It can’t scare any dogs or cats or small children. This year I finally came […]
Travel the World In Books Photography Challenge
We like to take pictures of books to show off what we’ve been reading. But, face it, it can get boring to look at stacks of books on Instagram over and over. I try to get creative with my book […]
Bath Abbey
There has been a church in Bath since the 7th century. This building was built in the 12th century. In the early 1500s it was left to decay and most of the expensive decorations were stripped out of it. By […]
Lima Company Memorial
Yesterday I went to the State Capitol to set up a Quilts of Valor display. Ohio Statehouse Rotunda A photo posted by @dvmheather on Feb 13, 2015 at 7:12am PST It is set up with the Lima Company Memorial, which […]
Universal Studios – Saturday Snapshot
I did spend some time out of Harry Potter World in the rest of the Universal Parks. There are stacks of books in Seuss Land. This guy guards The Lost Continent. Dinosaurs Puppy dogs Oooh, shiny! Linking up with West […]
Saturday Snapshot – Animal Kingdom
A fancy pigeon These guys disapprove of me. I had to take a picture of a kitty on the wall because the real kitties were all sleeping. I want to take this guy home to teach Jules how to forage […]
Saturday Snapshot-Epcot
I am a Disney hater. I don’t like crowds or commercialism. I paticularly hate the idea of Disney because I have a stepchild whose autistic brain is obsessed with Disney. She has the parks, the hotels, and the cruise ship […]
Great-grandma’s Postcards
On Thanksgiving my mother showed me two albums of postcards that belonged to her grandmother. I knew this great-grandmother as a 90+ year old woman in a wheelchair when I was a little kid. These are the postcards of a […]
Saturday Snapshot – Playground in Nice
The Promenade du Paillon is a new greenspace in the heart of Nice’s downtown. The Paillon is a stream that runs through town and was historically the cause of a lot of flooding. It was covered over in stages from […]
Saturday Snapshot
Happy Halloween! I was Cruella Deville with my very own black and white spotty dog. Cruella and a spotty dog # Halloween A photo posted by @dvmheather on Oct 10, 2014 at 7:41am PDT I had a whole herd of Dalmatians.
Saturday Snapshot
Sunset over the Mediterranean on the Prominade des Anglais in Nice France. Linking up with West Metro Mommy Reads
Cathédrale Notre-Dame-Immaculée in Monaco
We’re back from our trip to the south of France. I’ll be posting France stories on Mondays for the Dreaming of France linkup but we spent some time in two other countries also. Cathédrale Notre-Dame-Immaculée is in Monaco. It was […]
