With Mother’s Day just behind us and Father’s Day still a few weeks away, my thoughts and actions this week are still centered on family. Tis the season. May not only ushers in the full palate of Spring colors, but it also leaves to allow June to offer us summer’s […]

Many years ago, in the faraway land of India, a great tamarisk tree grew, with wide spreading branches, far over the surface of a great lake, clear, shining, and still. Morning, midday, and evening shone with varying beauty in the lake where the green boughs of the tamarisk waved in […]

Walt Kelly (August 25, 1913 – October 18, 1973) was an American cartoonist who was best known for his syndicated comic strip Pogo.  He began his career in 1936 as an illustrator with Walt Disney Studios and while there was a contributing artist on the animated classics Pinocchio and Fantasia. In 1941 at […]