My Recent Cheesy Travel Did you know it I haven’t gotten as many of the new food polls up as I had hoped, but I have lots of ideas so I will be continuing it just may not be quite weekly. Since June is National Dairy Month, I thought I’d go with the theme and poll [...]
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Left Wordless By Visiting a Flower Farm — Lots of Irises & Peonies!
Last weekend I was in Oregon for work. As I headed back to Portland from Salem, I saw a flower farm and decided to get off of the interstate. I didn’t doubleback to that farm, but luckily I caught a sign for another one — it was Brooks Gardens in Brooks, OR (Brooks Gardens website, [...]
V is for Viticulture — Cultivating Grapes for Wine Making
Viticulture is another one of the words that I think may not be familiar to everyone but if you drink wine, you should be really happy that viticulture exists because in a nutshell viticulture is “the cultivation or culture of grapes especially for wine making.” I have to say when I think of viticulture, my [...]
Stereotype Busters And A Need to Vent
Today is supposed to be a day of great fun. And the start to a weekend of great fun. I am en route to a girls weekend with my sisters, a niece and several friends. We are going to see Pink — yeah you know the woman who sings about not wanting to be a [...]
Touring a Sawmill in Northern California VIDEO
One of the more unique stops during my trip through Oregon and California this winter, thanks to my Twitter friend Mark Lathrop aka Twitter’s @SustainableWood, was a visit to a saw mill in Anderson, California. The only other time I had seen a sawmill, was a very small one in India without many modern technologies. This sawmill was [...]
Jeff Fowle — A Cowboy with a Great Story
I got off track with all the holidays and travel but I am excited to finally get back to telling some of the stories from my Oregon and California Roadtrip! I’ve got several story prompts already but I’d welcome more people checking out the compilation of vacation photos and asking questions. I love that [...]
Top 10 Things I Learmed About “Jungle” Jack Hanna
There are people who through TV seem to have always been a part of your life but you rarely get to look behind the curtain so to speak, and see what kind of people they are. I have had the chance to meet various people through conventions or pure happenstance and I have to say [...]
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G is for GMOs — What are GMOs & Why Do Farmers Plant GMO Crops?
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A is for Agriculture — an A to Z Series about Agriculture
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Cotton Gin in Kansas Made Me Pump My Brakes
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E is for Elevator — an A to Z Series about Agriculture
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Stereotype Busters And A Need to Vent
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Hearing “I Would Never Live in Tornado Alley” & Wondering
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What’s your favorite cheese? & Some of My Cheese-Related Travel
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A New Image to go with the History of Japanese Internment
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Trying Out CrossFit For a Change of Pace With Fitness
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Observing Memorial Day at Memphis National Cemetery
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Pam Gray: Hi Janice, I was just thinking of you and though...
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Mike: Janice- great post. I am going to be near Anderso...
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awastell: Chris, this is such a great reply to Kylee's ques...
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Janice Person: Seriously... you and I are so on the same page her...
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Ellen: People think Chicago weather is crazy. Especially ...
Who is JP?
Thanks for stopping by and wondering what I am about. My passions are photography, travel and agriculture -- love spending time taking pictures on a farm far from home. Putting all those things together its understandable that differences in culture are intriguing to me…. I can spend a lot of time soaking up things. Its almost always a colorful adventure!
