Lynda's Quiet Time

 If you have some time this or next week, and live in the Bay Area, visit the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden.  The place is an explosion...

 I used to volunteer at my kids' preschool and the teacher would ask me to go outside - since she knew I was stuck inside most of my w...

I live in the suburbs less than 1/2 mile from a highway-with a rather ugly backyard but with the parade of animals coming by, you'd nev...

Life is supposed to slow down somewhat as we get older, isn't it? But strangely I feel my life is speeding up - as if I am headi...

Do you ever feel like you are living your life one deadline after another? Well that is how I have been living my life the last few weeks- ...

There is a small but gorgeous Japanese Garden in Saratoga just past the village called Hakone Gardens . It is so authentic that when they w...