This weekend I hosted an open house to let friends in St. Louis know I was mostly unpacked, organized and I’m totally excited about having friends over. I spent time Friday evening doing some grocery shopping and prepping some dishes and Saturday morning I got the rest of my prep and cooking done. As I [...]
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Family Pauses for #FoodThanks Over Homemade Pizza
I have another guest post giving #FoodThanks! This one is from Heather, a college friend that I kept in loose touch with til I started spending more time in St. Louis. Since then, we’ve had several chances to spend a bit of time together. She and I had some journalism classes together and even worked [...]
Lots of Stuff to do on a Family Dairy Farm
I have to tell you that my visit to Ray-Lin Dairy recently was shaped a lot by Ray’s son, 11-year-old Bryson (remember him from the Flat Stanley series?). It was the weekend so Bryson wasn’t at school. He was at home so he was having what sounded like a bit of a typical day in [...]
An Easy Way to Eat Healthier
This one will be a quick post, but I have been trying to make sure I encourage healthier choices rather than the easy choices. One of the things for me is snack foods. I love them. And there are so darn many unhealthy options available that its really easy to choose those instead of something [...]
What Almonds Look Like on the Tree & On the Farm
I love almonds. Love them. By themselves by the handful or carefully laid out in chocolate. (Now I feel like I need a snack break before I can blog anymore. But I will power on.) I’ve had friends who’s families grow pecans (I am SO SOUTHERN) but almonds are not something we grow down south. [...]
The Cotton Belt is Picking Sides — I’m Pulling for the Cardinals!
There is something about the World Series. I can’t put my finger on it but it draws me in time and time again. Even if I haven’t watched much baseball during the season, the playoff season tends to grab me even if my team is totally out of it. I admit it. I am a [...]
Travelers Tuesday To Remember
I had to stop and take photos of the license plates at my house tonight to share them with you. Its hard to believe I have people from four different states here visiting for a bit all of them were here though I realized later I didn’t get a photo of all of us together. [...]
Are we killing our own enthusiasm for social media?
As I was getting to work Tuesday morning, I happened on this Google+ post by Mack Collier: I had noticed the same thing about people making radical changes in their social media use. I don’t mean the “social media gurus” though I’ve seen shifts there but I mean with my peers, regular people who are [...]
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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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Stereotype Busters And A Need to Vent
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E is for Elevator — an A to Z Series about Agriculture
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How to Edit Mobile Photos Quickly & Without Expensive Software
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Reviving My Series of Food Polls With Apples! Which is your favorite?
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Left Wordless By Visiting a Flower Farm — Lots of Irises & Peonies!
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What’s with that Hayden Panettiere cotton commercial?
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Lessons Learned Through My Blogging Challenge, an A to Z on Agriculture
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!
