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• Whose Garden Is It Anyway?

  

  Turkeys everywhere agree: newly tilled garden tiers are excellent for dust baths . . . . . . until the relaxing wallow in the dirt is rudely interrupted by a... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Siberian Iris

  

  The most obliging of our spring flowers -- Siberian irises bloom and bloom and spread and spread. Their cousins, the tall bearded iris that will open soon, are... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Angeline's Big Adventure

  

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  Posted on 05 May 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Evening Light

  

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  Posted on 04 May 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Changes

  

  I have passed this little building weekly for the past forty some years. When we first moved here, it was a white-painted cinderblock workshop for a fella who... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie and Her Big Girl Shoes

  

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  Posted on 02 May 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Flowers for May Day

  

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  Posted on 01 May 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Walk With Me

  

  Yesterday morning Layla and I walked down to the pond. Rue anemones were blooming at wood's edge. It was a perfect day -- clear and bright and a little cool.... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Instructions for Living a Life

  

  Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. From Mary Oliver's poem "Sometimes" -- Read it all HERE These dandelions and their shadows caught my eye this... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Who's A Pretty Birdie?

  

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  Posted on 28 April 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Blue Mountain Island

  

  Photo credit John Skemp Blue mountain island Floats -- still . . . serene . . . unchanging Beyond bare branches As glimpsed by pilgrims, Seeking the ineffable... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie's Book Review . . . And Her Sporty Blue Roadster

  

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  Posted on 26 April 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Fun Class

  

  Last night was the tenth and last meeting of my Wordplay class -- and what fun it's been! The students have written to prompts of taste, touch, smell, sound, an... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Spring Blooms

  

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  Posted on 24 April 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Tree Peonies

  

  For a brief and glorious moment . . . Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Here We Go Again!

  

  Despite a not-so-good garden last year (deer, bunnies, blight, and bugs,) I found myself at it again yesterday, setting out parsley and thyme, kale and... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie in Motion

  

  . . . which is why there are no more pictures. I had to put down the camera and grab the back of her dress to spot her as she made her way up these very steep... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Weather Or Not

  

  Our weather has been all over the place. Yesterday was beautiful -- but chilly. A few days ago it was almost in the 80s. And the day before that, there was snow... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• From the Department of Shameless Commerce

  

  Another reminder of some classes/workshops I'll be leading this summer. Wildacres Writing Workshop July 7 - 14, Little Switzerland, NC. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Apple Blossom Time

  

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  Posted on 18 April 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY