Collecting My Thoughts

 Although we've sold our cottage at Lakeside, this year the flowers have been doing beautifully.  So Bob took a photo, and because of th...

Beautiful walk along the lakefront this morning about 7:30 a.m. I stopped to talk to a woman who's been coming to Lakeside for 71 years,...

“What was the one of the biggest challenges you faced during 18 years of serving as House Chair of Green Gables?” I posed this question to B...

https://youtu.be/H69oPSYABDA This is a lovely video made by a couple who have an RV channel on YouTube.  They did a great story about Lake...

A new look for the porch. We bought our summer home in Lakeside, Ohio,  in 1988 (actual house with plaster walls, basement and fireplace bui...

Why would you consider selling your Lakeside cottage when you enjoy it so much? Here's some photographic evidence.    

21st Century Early 21st century cottages at Lakeside Chautauqua, Ohio, a summer community on Lake Erie on the Marblehead peninsula. The fir...

Our first summer at Lakeside was 1974.  Things were pretty primitive by today’s standards, or even standards of the 70s, but there was an up...

There was not a lot of building going on during WWII—anywhere—but we think our cottage was built around 1944 and we’ve heard it was the firs...