Nature an Beauty

Nature an Beauty

Twelve degrees of Latitude

Twelve degrees of latitude. That is what separates me from my brother. I live in central Texas (my latitude is 30 degrees N), and my brother lives in New England—Massachusetts—and his latitude is 42 deg N. On our circular earth we are only twelve degrees of latitude apart.  Twelve degrees sounds like a very small […]

Nature an Beauty

The Beauty of the Harp at Christmas

Imagine sitting in a beautiful New England home—a colonial built in the mid-1700s—and listening to Christmas music played on a harp. That is what I did this past weekend, and it was mesmerizing. The colonial house was previously owned by Senator Cromwell Leonard of Massachusetts (below is a photo of Mr. Leonard himself as he […]