TURKEYS ON THE SUNLOUNGER: the America I didn't expect.....

 Looking out at our front garden it seems a good time to leave for Florida. Appropriately we're having one of the biggest Chri...

From the Nutcracker and Mrs Claus The life-size crib scene outside the local Franciscan convent Complete with snowy camel* ...

Dateline: Cattaraugus County, Western New York The blog has been on a quick visit back to Blighty, where the weather was unaccountably spr...

 The blog is on a short trip, which explains why it has been silent for a while. But here's a flashback to a few days ago when we went...

This handsome grouse surprised us. I thought it was a chicken at first, pecking around on the ground, then flapping up onto the crabapple...

The tallest hill near us is called Chapel Hill. There is a little white wooden church on the way up that's the oldest Catholic place of...

Here am, I jumping on the look-at-those-traumatised-students-with-their-therapy-dogs bandwagon but my mole at a fairly local high school ...