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• Blue Light Special!!!

  

  I'm late to the party on this one as it was a best seller some eight years ago. It's one of the rare self-published books to gained enough attention for a... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Much of a Nothingness . . .

  

  Yesterday's weather was like the picture below, except when it was raining hard and visibility was approximately three feet. Cold, wet, and exceedingly dreary -... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Mend My Life

  

  A re-post from 2008 --- From a writers' workshop. We were given the line 'Mend my life' . . . Mend my life;Make it holy -- wholly new and newly whole. Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Willa and Her Unca Monkey (AKA Ali)

  

  Justin took this sweet picture with his phone . . . And I posterized it . . . And neoned it . . . and played with the focus. Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Increments . . .

  

  This huge (bigger than a basketball) hornet's nest was built one tiny mouthful of wood pulp and hornet saliva at a time. growing slowly and perfectly to its... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Sun, Sky, Water

  

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  Posted on 12 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Loving Eleanor

  

  is a fascinating historical novel dealing with the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt, arguably one of the most influential First Ladies ever, and Lorena... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Shadows

  

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  Posted on 10 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Country Living and The Best Laid Plans

  

  After lunch yesterday I headed out the door, bound for the grocery store, only to hear the sound of tires grinding in the mud and gravel of the (steep) road by... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Simple Curl of Smoke . . .

  

  It was the particular questioning curl of the smoke that caught my eye as I came around the curve and I grabbed a quick picture from the car window. The... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Ice, Ice, Baby

  

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  Posted on 07 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Sweet Potato Rolls

  

  I tore this recipe (from Cat Christianson of Brevard, NC) out of a magazine (Southern Living?) many years ago. The combination of lamb, sweet potato rolls, and... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Winter Skies

  

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  Posted on 05 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Lost in England Again

  

  After putting away the Christmas red and green, I began the new year as I hope to go on, and spent the weekend reading and writing. The writing is going well bu... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• What IS That Dog Doing?

  

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  Posted on 03 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Old Ways

  

  We've eaten our black-eyed peas (cooked with hog jowl the way my grandmother did) for luck, as well as the collards that are meant to put money in our pockets i... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Here It Comes!

  

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  Posted on 01 January 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Gallimaufry at Year's End

  

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  Posted on 30 December 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Just Some Observations

  

  Yesterday Amazon breathlessly informed me that a YOODGE number of best selling books would be on sale for Kindle at up to 85 % off. Well what could I do? Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Almost Black and White...And a Selfie

  

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  Posted on 29 December 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY