Even in Winter, I love rainy days.

It’s been a very rainy week here on the Long Island Sound and I have loved it. I love the way that there is nothing about Winter that enhances the experience of rain.

It’s cold. The trees are bare, the shrubs are scrawny, the grass is dead, landscape is practically [...]

Ah, the color of memories.

Remember the warm rosy glow of those lingering Summer twilights?

Well, there’s a new ray of light in town.

Last weekend I bundled up and bustled out to the local stately mansion (the deserted old manor house of the renowned American man of lettres, William Cullen  Bryant) to catch the very last gasp [...]

This is how I spent my Hurricane Weekend:

On Saturday, representing the Marlin Clan of Edinburgh and Pennsylvania (Huguenots who emigrated to Scotland in 1548), Yours Truly attended The Scottish Games on Long Island.

Yes, those are the storm clouds of Irene.

But what do I care????

As it was said (all over the Games): We Scots Eat Hurricanes [...]

Thank you, dear readers, for your wonderful notes regarding your Certificates of Catology. You should all celebrate your expertise and take pride in your achievement. And yes, those little cat portraits on your certificates of appreciation are reproduced the same size that I painted them. And yes, they are all my cats — maybe you’ll recognize [...]