The Liefies

89/366 springs eternal

Our neighborhood has an albino squirrel. I’ve been trying to get a good picture of Whitey, and only recently succeeded. I’d love to toss her some yummy nuts, but will have to experiment to see what she likes. She is very skittish, even for a squirrel. I guess sticking out like [...]

66/366 Best friends

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Leo and I recently completed a bathroom remodel. Our upstairs bathroom didn’t have a tub/shower when we bought the house last summer, but it does now! We decided to put in a Penrose tile pattern floor. You can’t buy that commercially; the pattern, although it has a lot of symmetry, does [...]

Congratulations to the Kansas Jayhawks and the Tennessee Volunteers for winning (respectively) the men’s and women’s NCAA Div. I basketball championships!
This was taken on Christmas Day, 2004. My nephew got a small basketball hoop, so I decided to have a little fun! Photo taken by Leo, but the idea was my [...]

As the last of the formerly huge piles of snow in our backyard disappear in the 60-degree weather (there’s very little left), I thought of a trip to Door County four years ago this month. These water ice crystals were on the west shore of the peninsula (Green Bay/Lake Michigan), and we were fascinated [...]