Mountain Top Stroll, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Mountain Top Stroll
By Beverly Hicks Burch
This afternoon Mom asked me to take a stroll down her little “road” that runs along the ridge of her and Daddy’s mountain top lot in northeast Alabama where their home sits. I should mention this “lot” covers several acres and is a little piece of heaven.
A few weeks ago [...]

Divorce Has Lasting Toll on Health, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Divorce Has Lasting Toll on Health
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I found the above article this morning on WebMD and feel it applies to my concern for women’s health matters. Please take the time to read it…especially if you are a survivor of divorce or someone in your family is!
This one personally hit home for me because I [...]

Summer Fragrance, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Summer Fragrance
By Beverly Hicks Burch
The South has had a love affair with many botanical plants for centuries. We’re quite well known for many of them in fact. Think azalea and one’s mind almost equally thinks Southern. It’s the same for rhododendrons, dogwoods, camellias, magnolias, jasmine and one scourge we just as soon be rid of…kudzu. [...]

I’m a Little Teapot…, by Beverly Hicks Burch

I’m a Little Teapot…
By Beverly Hicks Burch
I might have mentioned it before, but I have a shared “affliction” with my little Momma…one she actually passed on to me. That affliction is a love of dishes and a desire to “collect” dishes. As Daddy says we have a lot of plunder in that department, but boy [...]

Speeding Down a Country Road at 70 (sometimes) MPH, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Speeding Down a Country Road at 70 (sometimes) MPH
By Beverly Hicks Burch
Last week after spending some time with my folks we drove up to Asheville, NC. The portion of the drive between East Tennessee (where I was born) and Asheville is one of my favorite drives in the country.
I had been dozing in the front [...]

Backyard Buddies, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Backyard Buddies
By Beverly Hicks Burch
This morning I was working on the latest quilt project Tall & Handsome and I have going on…actually it is our first joint project…and his first ever textile project. Entitled South by Southwest, the quilt combines our heritages by using the Tennessee Waltz pattern (my heritage) with southwestern fabrics (his heritage).
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Wild Birds Fast Food and Fly Through, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Wild Birds Fast Food and Fly Through
By Beverly Hicks Burch
Shortly after we met I introduced Tall and Handsome to bird watching and bird feeding. Since he’s indisputably dotty about animals, it didn’t take him long to get “hooked on bird feeding”. And when he gets hooked on something, he does like to jump in with [...]

Cookie Road Trip: Florida, by Beverly Hicks Burch

Cookie Road Trip: Florida
By Beverly Hicks Burch

It’s been a while since we traveled down the Cookie Road Trip. I have to admit, time, life and a misplaced cookie cookbook intertwined to cause that lapse. But, never fear, my “road map” had resurfaced.
This stop takes us to Florida, the most “tropical” of the contiguous 48 states.
Florida [...]

How Dry I Am…by Beverly Hicks Burch

How Dry I Am…
By Beverly Hicks Burch

In 1993 I finally got a name for the “thing” that had been making so sick and fatigued for years. Sometimes just having a name for your illness is a blessing…it serves to alleviate your fears that you might be crazy! Thankfully I was referred to a doctor who [...]

Arizona Pincushions, by Beverly Hicks Burch

This was a planter of cacti at a gas station north of the Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ area. We had stopped on our way out of town up to Williams, AZ where we were going to spend the night, then catch a train the next morning, Saturday, to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

This counts [...]