Donna Young

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Nineteen years ago I painted this for my son John who was 2 years old at the time. It is just a simple little water color and I did it in a few hours while sitting on the floor. The style was inspired by Goodnight Moon, a book that John wanted to hear often 19 [...]

For the past couple of weeks, I have tried to take photographs of my tomato plants but in the photographs they look like big green blobs. Tonight while dumping some tomato peelings on the compost pile after dark, I looked at the plants with the flashlight and noticed how one plant could stand out in [...]

A couple of days ago I redid the pages that have geosafari resources. I spread the resources over several pages and I added some images and a few more codes. Additionally, I changed the location of the geosafari pages, but I did leave behind a link at the old address.
Here is the new location and [...]

This is today’s harvest from my small backyard garden. From this we will eat the beans for dinner. I will dry the okra, zucchini, red clover, and spearmint. By the end of the day, I will have eaten the tomatoes. Since taking this photograph, they are already reduced by half. My love of fresh homegrown [...]

Today, Holly and I went to buy potatoes so that I can make potato salad for tomorrow’s July 4th feast. A sight that we do not see very often in this part of the USA met us - A man on a horse in a parking lot in front of a B&S [beer & [...]