Baking bread

Hello one and all, I thank you for reading my blog. I am very new to this and have no background in journalism, or photography, so, right now, I apologize, for too many expressive words, for shadows, or blurry photos.  I do totally enjoy reading your posts, and looking at the incredible photos of food, family, and nature.  My camera is just a little Olympus stylus, I have plans of purchasing a new digital SLR camera, suggestions, anyone?

I have cinnamon bread rising in the oven.....mmm, I don't know of many smells better than cinnamon and baking bread. I am trying the recipe that I found over at the italian dish, one of my new favorite authors.She has the most incredible photos of food, and she always has the most lovely linens in the background. I think I have found a use finally, for all my great-grandmothers' aprons, hankies, and dish towels, that are tucked away in my hope chest.

My great-aunt just passed away, the last one in that generation. She was a real trouper, diaganosed with lung cancer last spring, and in May, was told that she had weeks, not months to live. Well, I am sure she is laughing at her doctors right now, as she lived until New Years' Eve. She told a dear family friend that she was not going in to the new year fighting this disease.  I tell you that, because it was her mother that owned the aprons and hankies.  I don't remember my great grandmother without an apron on, unless she was away from the house, dressed for church, or another event.  When my mother gave them to me, I had no idea what I would do with them, except to possibly make a quilt out of them.  Now I think I will just pull them out every now and again and use them as a table dressing, or a prop in a photo. Thank you for the inspiriation, Elaine.