Picking green apples from a tree as a child and eating them, dusted with salt while sitting atop bags of feed in the family barn, is only one of a long association Audrey Horton has with barns. ...more

January 24, 2009

Picking green apples from a tree as a child and eating them, dusted with salt while sitting atop bags of feed in the family barn is only one of a long association Audrey Horton has with barns. ...more

January 21, 2009

The Brandon Service League's 16th annual Holiday Home Tour was a big success, said Candy Jackson, first vice president of the league and former tour chairwoman. Hundreds of men, women and children visited the ornamented houses, owned by Lithia residents John and Ellen Matheson and Valrico residents Scott and Chris Etherington and Dave and Monica Cox. ...more

January 7, 2009

The Brandon Service League's 16th annual Holiday Home Tour was a big success, said Candy Jackson, first vice president of the league and former tour chairwoman. Hundreds of men, women and children visited the ornamented houses, owned by Valrico residents Scott and Chris Etherington and Dave and Monica Cox and Lithia residents John and Ellen Matheson. ...more

January 7, 2009

Among a forest of designer Christmas trees, a simple ceramic handmade holiday tree holds a special spot in Rhonda Warren's New Port Richey home. Warren makes sure it sits in a prominent spot in the elaborately decorated holiday home. The Warren house sports 22 Christmas trees with themes of everything from Mickey Mouse to M&Ms, a plethora of ornaments and lights, and at last count, 25 gingerbread houses. ...more

December 24, 2008

Old-world beauty combined with the best of modern conveniences will be on display at this year's Holiday Home Tour, to be hosted by the Hollyhock Circle of the Dade City Garden Club. The historic Larkin Home is the destination of this year's tour, which runs from 4 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the home, 37441 Church Ave. ...more

December 6, 2008

Back in the 1920s, Temple Terrace Estates was a plush winter retreat for the rich and famous, as well as home to more regular joes with incomes a notch or two above the norm. ...more

November 30, 2008

Every year for about the past decade, for as long as the Brandon Service League has been organizing its Holiday Home Tour, three generations of women in Sharon Smith's family have visited the decorated homes together. ...more

December 17, 2007

The Yoss home will be open to the community from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Nov. 8-9 and from 9 to 5 p.m. Nov. 10. There is a $5 charge to cover the cost of homemade doughnuts and cider served to guests. ...more

November 7, 2007

There are times when Carolyn Yoss is convinced she should have been born in the 1800s. ...more

October 31, 2007