This time of year Pennsylvania’s gardens, roadsides, and meadows are filled with daylilies, wild and domesticated.  So, my family and I weren’t surprised when we saw these flowers thick across the grounds of The Campbell Pottery Store.
I’m a sucker for galleries and the family like to shop, so we can kill two birds with one [...]

If it’s spring, it must be garden tour season, a must for voyeurs and avid green thumbs alike. Where else can you view tropical poolscapes perched near school athletic fields, shady green havens tucked amid otherwise nondescript housing developments, or the latest exotic plant offerings in otherwise traditional settings.
It’s the juxtapositions and the possibilities that [...]

I spent the afternoon in daylily heaven. Connoisseur Jim Stauffer played the perfect host, showing off his 130 varieties planted in the front yard of his Kissel Hill home. Subject to extreme conditions, new varieties must pass the macadam test by weathering a winter in a pot on his driveway. The winners can vie [...]

I work in Oakland and love spending my lunch hour exploring. I typically start my walk on Craig Street and Forbes Avenue, right by the Carnegie Museum of Art, and walk towards the Cathedral of Learning.
I love seeing Dippy, the huge sculpture of a Diplodocus dinosaur outside the museum, where I turn left and go past [...]

I love where I live. I have lived many places, but I always come back.
I live in what used to be Germantown on the edge of what is growing back into Little Italy, near the old City Cemetery that sits atop a gradual incline and in the right weather, gives you a full view of [...]

You know, sometimes I ask myself, “what ever happened to the way it use to be?” As I continue my journey running a bed and breakfast and living here in Lancaster County, I am just amazed at how simple things are. Produce, fresh cheese, baked goods and of course wholesome ingredients are all at [...]