Priscilla’s World
The Beginning of Photography in our Family
Photography entered the DNA of our family with the first cameras in this country. One story from, A Pioneer Love Story tells of "our" first camera: In 1900, the Eastman Kodak Company introduced a low-priced, point-and-shoot, hand-held camera, called the Brownie. It...
The Snowy Christmas
Mountains of snow move. Kids propel themselves from one snow bank through another. Then snowy footprints track inside the house. The Christmas of the big snow! Who can forget it? Presents and turkey take a back seat in Kansas in 1967. One evening late in December we...
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve - a special time. First, Candle-light service. Then conversation and peace in front of my ex-fireplace with Mary, Nora and Warren. More fun than three little kids is the three-ring circus on Christmas morning when their three dogs of varying sizes open...
A Week at Ghost Ranch
Last week my friend, Kaze and I gloried in the glow of changing light on the multi-colored pillars of stone outside our door. This is a week set aside to work on the book we are writing. It became so much more. A kaleidoscope of emotions visits us before our time at...
A Surprise Phone Call
I try not to kick myself for those items on my “to do” list that never get done. How many times have I written down, “Market A Pioneer Love Story?" Somehow the urgency doesn’t hit me and it never gets to the top of the list…important as I know it is. Does that make me...
Two Days of Birding and a New Great Granddaughter
A long weekend in Minnesota can’t be beat. It is the Audubon group’s Warbler Weekend. My sister, Pam, and I join son, Ben Thursday afternoon for a couple of days of birding. We stay in Lake City, MN … walk miles through the Hok-Si-La Park and Frontenac State Park…...