This weekend Sally and I (with the good help of our son Drew) performed one of our Fall rituals – dismantling and saying goodbye to our screened porch until next spring. If I’d had my druthers, I’d have spent the weekend at the Kemble Inn in Lenox. Leisurely exploring the grounds. Appreciating the fall flowers. And savoring the fall foliage...

There was no Sunday Drive today, not even a Friday drive as happened last week… This weekend the construction drawings for a Belgian style kitchen took precedence… So… I’m going to circle back to the weekend of August 1, when Sally and I drove to Lenox to meet her brother Pat and and his daughter Stephanie. Pat...