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Happy Labor Day! Enjoy the day off! (via)

On our drive back from Polyface Farm we stopped to pick a few of the first apples of the season… Galas and Ginger Golds. I’ve been stashing away my apples recipes, anticipating Fall. Since September is here, I’m bringing apples back! Galas are not my…

Last weekend we took a drive into the beautiful rolling hills of Shenandoah and visited Polyface Farm. If you’ve read The Omnivore’s Dilemma or seen Food, Inc. you’re familiar with this place. This little farm became famous for defying the industrial f…

When my life gets busy, the first thing to go is homemade bread. Sometimes I wish I could barricade myself inside my kitchen and just bake, with no worries in the world besides how high my dough will rise and whether I should have let that loaf cool lo…

Plain Jane is a little corny, but I adore Louise Roe. She is positive, energetic, and fun. She’d be my absolute favorite if she changed her last name from “Roe” to “Rowe”!

What a gorgeous mother-daughter combo! Susan Sarandon and Eva Amurri looked perfectly harmonic at the Emmy’s. (via GoFugYourself)

I sort of have a running coach, though I don’t pay him well – or at all.  I’m not really sure what he gets out of the deal.  It’s probably humorous for him to watch me struggling or maybe it’s nostalgia for the old day…

Thank goodness September 1st doesn’t bring the end of summer. It’s not over just yet! (Here in the northern hemisphere we still have 3 weeks left.) I’m not ready to lose the sunny hot long days. Here in Virginia it’s still hitting the high 90’s and I’m…

My must-have books of the moment…