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• Crow

  

  A simple image, after the surfeit of the past few days . . . Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• So Much Thankfulness

  

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  Posted on 29 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  I got started Tuesday, roasting some turkey backs and then simmering them with onion and celery to make broth for the dressings and the gravy... making almond... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• In Hoc Signo?

  

  Just before a battle, the pagan emperor Constantine was said to have seen a cross in the sky along with words meaning, In this sign shall you conquer. He... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Looking East -- Morning and Evening

  

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  Posted on 26 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• An Ideal Nursery

  

  I always loved the descriptions of nurseries in certain English books-- Mary Poppins, for example. The ideal nursery was a large, light-filled room, full of... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• When Death Comes by Mary Oliver

  

  When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Looking for the Cantrell Child -- Re-Post from 2009

  

  Last Friday seemed like a good day to explore a graveyard. My brother was visiting from Alabama and I enlisted him to go with me to look for the Cantrell child'... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Fading Glory

  

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  Posted on 22 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Loves the Library

  

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  Posted on 21 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Cosmos -- Then and Now

  

  Fenestrae Coeli Apertae-Johann Jakob Scheuchzer 1781 Crab Nebula --NASA Under the Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud- NASA Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Novel of Manners

  

  I blame my grandmother. When I lay sick with measles in a darkened room, she read to me. And she read books from her girlhood -- at the turn of the previous... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• My Wheel of Mystery--Re-post

  

  Wheel of Mystery -- one of the names given to this quilt pattern of interlocking circles. I pieced my quilt by hand, some years ago, working at it on the days... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• How Can I Keep from Singing?

  

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  Posted on 17 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Editing

  

  ...which is pretty much all I've been doing for the past two weeks -- along with keeping Josie two and three days a week. (I'm using Josie pics for this post... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A World of Epsilon Minuses?

  

  Wikipedia I recently re-read Brave New World, Huxley’s dystopian vision of a future in which humanity is managed to produce an optimum number of various... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

  

  I zoomed through this book, lent me by one of my book pusher friends. It boasts two good hooks: The Pack Horse librarians of Depression-era Kentucky, intrepid... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• First Snow

  

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  Posted on 13 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Takes Tea

  

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  Posted on 12 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Veterans Day 2019

  

  Just in time for Veteran's Day, President Bonespurs is ordered to make restitution for using donations to vets as a personal piggy bank. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY