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• Another Day With Josie

  

  I'm off today to Wildacres Writer's Workshop for a week. Internet there can be dodgy -- I'll post if I can. Till then, here's Josie! Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Biting the Bullet

  

  The D90 continues with its intermittent functioning problem. The above and some of yesterday's pics were taken with my little pocket camera because the D90... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie's Back

  

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  Posted on 05 July 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Are We Really Better Than This?

  

  We’re better than this has been a popular response to much of what's happening in this country, especially now with the separation of immigrant families. But ar... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Good News . . . and Bad News

  

  I have my camera back, sparkling clean and the zoom is no longer sticking! The bad news is that the folks , in testing it, said there seemed to be an... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Best Garden Ever!

  

  Or at least, our best garden in quite a while. And me still without my camera. No matter. One squash looks much like another. Anyway, I went down early to tie u... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• N.C. Wyeth

  

  The illustrations in my grandmother's copy of The Yearling were my introduction to the luminous work of N.C. Wyeth. I loved them because they were true to the... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Here Are Some Kittehs -- Good Medicine for Tough Times

  

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  Posted on 30 June 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Great Grand Parents

  

  Yesterday I had a call from an Alabama cousin I'd never met -- the grandson of Lillie Belle, one of my grandfather's sisters. He has some family information to... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• No Camera -- Old Pictures -- Play Group

  

  I feel lost without my camera -- I'm used to always looking for things to take a picture of and I can't cut it off. I see something -- the drop of water on the... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Poet Dreams of the Mountain by Mary Oliver

  

  Sometimes I grow weary of the days, with all their fits and starts. I want to climb some old gray mountain, slowly, taking the rest of my lifetime to do it…. Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Still Another June

  

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  Posted on 26 June 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie at the Beach

  

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  Posted on 25 June 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Some Other June

  

  Still camera-less but around here, one June looks much like another. These are from 2014 but they could have been taken yesterday -- day lilies rioting, tomatoe... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Prescient Wisdom of Douglas Adams

  

  The Hitchhiker's Guide and the other four books of the trilogy ( it's complicated) have been a part of my life for almost forty years now, mostly in recordings... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• From Last Week --JCC

  

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  Posted on 22 June 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Varina by Charles Frazier

  

  What a writer this guy is! He can craft a sentence or paragraph like nobody's business. Charles Frazier's latest novel is a richly imagined account of the life... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Cameraless and Twitchy

  

  On the advice of my friend Cory, I've taken my camera to a professional for cleaning. (Who knew fungus could grow on lenses?) I'll be cameraless for about ten... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Crafts Show and Tell at JCC

  

  Apologies for the quality of the photos -- it was crowded and I had to keep moving. I missed several displays -- Greek Cooking was all eaten before I got... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Happy to Be Back to the Garden

  

  John C. Campbell has such beautiful flower and vegetable gardens (tended by various staff and work/study folks) that I always find myself wanting to pull a... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY