I like sitting by the campfire late at night. JoAnne likes to read, sometimes even sitting in the car to get away from the bugs or the rain. Both of us love…
Category: Joy Notes
Posts that intend to inspire
Florida Vacation 2015
Must be we made ourselves useful and didn’t cause too much trouble in 2014 because our daughter Keely and her husband Mark invited us to go with them on their annual…
Finding Joy As You Go
Written June 1, 2015 Looking for unexpected beauty As you know, I like to walk. When I walk, I look for beauty and joy. Today, on vacation, I walked out toward the…
Spring walks are refreshing in many ways.
I love a good walk. It gets the heart pumping and fills the lungs with fresh air. It eases the tensions of to-do lists and day-to-day circumstances. Sometimes I pray aloud on…
Christmas Trains for 2014
How it started One of my hobbies is model trains, specifically, O-gauge trains running around my Christmas tree. Yes we had a Lionel train which we three Jones brothers shared when I…
Sam Visits for Christmas
My Grandson Sam is a hands-on guy. He was not very interested in running the trains, though he did that briefly once or twice. He liked the whistle on the train a…
A New Granddaughter!
[nggallery id = 66] Someone is way overdue for a Grandpa post. I am so much enjoying being a grandparent. And on November 17, 2014, our second grandchild was born, a little girl,…
An Unusual Winter Walk
I’ve been walking in our neighborhood for about 17 months now. I see lots of fascinating and beautiful things because I look for them. I’ve found picturesque stream crossings, a hidden falls,…
My daylily hobby
An inherited avocation The last daily bloom faded away one day this past week ending another season of daylily delight. Growing the flower technically called hemerocallis is a pastime I inherited from…
A Maple Syrupy Memory
On the last day of our recent week of vacation, my wife and I stopped at a Maple Syrup Museum on Route 7 just north of Rutland, Vermont. It was a fascinating…