Mae Travels

HAPPY NEW YEAR! New Year's Party down the block with kids: the ball drops at 8:15 PM and then bedtime! Also posted on my food bl...

Another beautiful high-key photo that Len took this week.

Sapeck (Eugène Bataille): Mona Lisa with a Pipe, 1883 I hate smoking. But I'm quite fascinated by smokers as they appear in artwork...

Well, 2014 is almost over and people are making lists. Here goes: good books that I've read this year, including some that we read in my...

I want to start with a very moving poem that I first heard at a reading by Allen Ginsberg around 20 years ago. He chanted the poem while pla...

My book club is meeting later this week to discuss Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Most of the questions a...

This weekend we did some very nice birdwatching. We were successful in photographing several new birds, including snow buntings and snow gee...

At Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge near Saginaw yesterday we enjoyed driving around the loop designed for vistas over the marshlands and...

We loved the art collection at the Barnes Foundation today, but Mona Lisa always deserves a special shout-out! Here are the gift shop items ...

Arnold Road just into Jackson County is the location of Watkins Lake (confusingly sometimes called Thorn Lake) We spent the morning ther...