A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today, this first morning of the first of October, was appropriately autumnal with gloomy, grey skies and drizzle...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Pre-dawn is the calm before the storm. Before even the birds begin their incessant chirping. Before the kids begin...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today we Carpe Diemed and zipped over to the home of some dear friends to say goodbye before we head back to Rome....

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This morning, we continued hauling everything out of the water and taking all the outdoors things to the indoors...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Last night, this spectacular September sunset caught us by surprise. Why are some sunsets so much more vivid than...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This morning, while looking for a picture book to read to Cordelia, my eye fell upon one of my favorites- The...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: My book babies have finally arrived! When I gleefully ripped open the package last night my sarcastic teenager...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: While I am not sorry to leave North Carolina after being stuck here overnight when air traffic delays caused us to...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Witnessing any sunrise is a Carpe Diem moment, but it's especially magical when it rises over the ocean. So long,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: As you can imagine, there have been several Carpe Diem moments over the last 24 hours in the Outer Banks. I was...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : The first message I saw on my phone in Michigan this morning was a news report from my eldest sister on yet...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The wind really whipped up today and brought a hailstorm of acorns down, bouncing off the deck and right into the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: We're not the only ones soaking up some final beach memories before the official start of Fall-- these monarch...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Following on last night's rare simultaneous sunset and moonrise on Portage Lake (which has an East-West...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The moon we've all been waiting for has arrived! I captured this photo of a pinkish moon last night rising over...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Now that the humans are back to school and work, this place has gone to the birds. Day and night the geese...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Home is where the heart is-- and mine has water, woods, and these little women. Back in Michigan today after our...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Liturgical: Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: "What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." ( Romeo and Juliet , Act II, Scene II) I must...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: We have arrived! This morning we traveled from the top of the country to the bottom, from a chilly autumnal...