Correspondence such as mail, emails and questions posted to social media are all favorite ways I love connecting to readers, always inquisitive and caring, each with very perceptive perspectives with a definite eye for detail.

Valerie Divincenzo of Inwood, West Virginia, wrote to me after “seeing a mermaid” photographed in our farm birdbath, included as a photo with a recent column.

“We lived in Chicago for years until we moved south almost two decades ago,” Val wrote.

“We still read the Tribune online, and I enjoy your columns and have two of your cookbooks. Recently you ran a photo that had a mermaid statue washing her hair in your farm birdbath. I’m sure in the past that you had a statue of the goddess Venus in your birdbath, and I even recall seeing it photographed in your recent po

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