At 5:05 p.m. or so, it snowed. Very wet snow, or perhaps sleet. It's October 27. Hmmm. Photo: a snowflake, in New Mexico, not Kentucky. ...

Hallowe'en is almost here, it appears. Did some fiend nip a statue (with aid of a backhoe) from a cemetery and move it to this hall? Loo...

It's that time of year: black walnuts are littering the Kentucky Bluegrass. The last few trips out to my in-laws, I've passed patche...

Fashions come in living color, usually...except when black is popular, which, once again, it is this year. Further, color in our clothes has...

It was the last week in August, a puffy-cloud afternoon, out at Mamaw and Papaw's. Once out in back, the boys trotted with us down to th...

The Bustle: Essential Underpinning for a Dolly Varden Ensemble Having Dolly Varden dresses on the brain , I decided to make a Dolly Varde...

Rosy Dolly, Pretty Dolly “After a long and patient contemplation of the golden key, and many such backward glances, Gabriel stepped into ...

Last weekend the Edwardian lingerie dress lurched further towards completion: I seamed the skirt. The bodice would have been completed but I...

Just ended, a marathon session to make a mid-nineteenth century style chemise. I am wearing the end result as a nightgown and it's very...

After some reluctance and delay due to the perceived difficulty of the task, delay that stretched into months, I have at last applied the la...