Love, Roses, and Triple Chocolate

Some of you, Beautiful People, know that I am passionate to the point of obsession about roses, especially red roses. This post was inspired by a dear blogofriend, Darrell of wingman2023 and his terrific macros of flowers. It is his rose that I have incorporated both into my video and the head image. I also…

More Traveling Food, but No Adventure

The great adventure has been postponed. We are literally “sitting by the sea” (the ocean, in our case) “and waiting for the weather” (that’s an Odessa saying). So far only one of you, Beautiful People, has figured out my disappearing act. Well done, dear Carol of Retired? No one told me! One more beautiful and…

The Infamous Pirate Queen and the Traveling Rations

Was there a pirate ship called The Black Pearl that roamed the Caribbean? And was there a flamboyant, dashing Jack Sparrow who captained it? No and no! The main lie, of course, is that Jack Sparrow never existed, and the real pirate, on whom Johnny Depp’s character (largely composite) is loosely based, was oh! so…