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• Snow Birds

  

  Yesterday's snowstorm brought the usual crop of birds to our feeder -- cardinals, juncos, red-bellied woodpeckers, blue jays, titmice, etc. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Curl of a Tail Caught My Eye . . .

  

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  Posted on 17 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Very Good Read

  

  Some cookbooks make excellent reading. I'm thinking of Marjorie Kinnan Rawling's Cross Creek Cookery, Clementine in the Kitchen by Phineas Beck, and Edna Lewis'... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie and the CoryCat

  

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  Posted on 15 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Nature Red in Fang and Spinneret

  

  In the morning the spider caught the stinkbug on the orchid... ... and spent most of the day wrapping it up . . . By evening the work was complete and spider... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Here Comes Another Cold Front

  

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  Posted on 13 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Books, Books, Books

  

  Yesterday being rainy and me with a cold, I found myself reorganizing several troublesome drawers and trying to get rid of the accumulation of little notebooks... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Word Play

  

  This semester in the Great Smokies Writing Program, I'm offering something different. After hearing from various would-be students that they just didn't have th... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie's Bad Hair Day

  

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  Posted on 10 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Wanted: Fair Witness

  

  When I was taking a required education course at the University of Florida back in 1962, one of our weekly assignments was to observe (through one-way glass)... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• In the Bleak Midwinter . . .

  

  ... it's cheering to tend plants and watch them bloom. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• We've Missed You on the Frontier

  

  The plangent notes of the bouzouki filled the air in the smoky tavern. Without thinking, I extended my arms and began the traditional knee-dipping Greek dance.... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Scavengers' Buffet

  

  Yesterday I visited the compost facility where Justin works, turning garbage from Asheville's finest restaurant into high grade dirt. It's not pretty and even i... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• From the Archives -- January 2009

  

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  Posted on 05 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Essex Serpent

  

  I was beguiled by the cover and the title and happy to find that I loved the story. It reminded me of The French Lieutenant's Woman and, to a lesser degree of... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Here She Comes!

  

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  Posted on 03 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• And It Was Brrr!

  

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  Posted on 02 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• For Luck in the New Year

  

  Greens to put money in your pocket and hog jowl and black-eyed peas for luck . . . Like walking in the first snow, getting wet in the first rain of May, knockin... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2018 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• At Year's End

  

  WILD GEESE You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2017 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Because Sometimes Only Cats in Boxes Will Do

  

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  Posted on 30 December 2017 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY