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• Whew!

  

  Just finished up an paid editing job that's kept me working till midnight the past few nights. It's a 350 page memoir of the author's time in Vietnam. I actuall... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Dessie and the Jockstrap - Repost

  

  Back in May, I noticed the little walnut tree emerging from the clump of irises in our side yard and I was reminded of Dessie and the jockstrap. Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Where's Josie?

  

  Thanks to Claui and Bill and Nancy for the pictures! Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Misty Mountains Everywhere -- Coming Home

  

  The mountains at John C.Campbell were mist-shrouded yesterday morning . . . As were the mountains on the way home . . . What a joy to be greeted by the... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• JCC Writing Class--2019

  

  What a good group this has been! Claire, Matt, Kade, William, and Clark all showed up with novels already underway and ready to work on polishing and/or adding... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Few More Pictures . . .

  

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  Posted on 06 June 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• About the Cherokee and Amazing Grace

  

  At Morningsong yesterday, Pattie Bagley performed and once again sang "Amazing Grace." She also told us the story of how the hymn had come to be translated... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Iconic JCC

  

  After a full day in the studio with my writing class (who are terrific,) it felt good to wander around and take pictures. The iconic walk through the woods to... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Leaving This Behind . . .

  

  I almost never leave home without a pang of regret -- but the Passion Flowers are blooming! And the hydrangeas! I am, however, at John C. Campbell Folk School,... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Good Omens -- the MiniSeries

  

  After binge-reading Educated (see yesterday's post), I binge- watched Good Omens. Five or six enthralling hours that took me from from the Garden of Eden to wha... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Educated -- A Memoir

  

  A friend recommended this book so enthusiastically that I purchased it at once. Then I saw a discussion about it on FB and mentioned that I'd just gotten it. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Too Many People?

  

  You probably saw the picture above (not mine but lifted from the news as are all the others in this post.) A back-to-belly traffic jam of climbers waiting to... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Venus' Looking Glass

  

  Another of those little 'weeds' -- this one was simply too pretty to pull up. And I love the name. It's also called Clasping Bellflower. Native Americans used i... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• It's the Little Things

  

  I think that this tiny beauty is a Silvery Blue -- I've seen them around for years and never managed to photograph one. The topside of their wings is quite... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Chain Reading and a Discovery

  

  I'm a sucker for Stephen Birmingham's books about the rich and famous of the past. I loved Our Crowd and The Grandees and recently devoured his account of the... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Moment in the Sun

  

  This little poppy is an unexpected volunteer in my flowerbed. Something kept me from pulling up the unfamiliar green plant and I was rewarded one morning with... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Spreading All the Light All Around

  

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  Posted on 26 May 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Around the Place

  

  Weeding, weeding, weeding. . . It's a pleasure to be out in the morning before things heat up. Sitting on the bench under the willow would be nice but there's... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Has a Staff Appreciation Dinner

  

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  Posted on 24 May 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose

  

  In the course of the forty-four years we've lived here, I've planted and lost a discouraging number of roses -- floribundas, David Austins, antique, climbing,... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY