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• What Are You Reading?

  

  I'm reading everything I can. Having written THE END to the never-ending work in progress, I'm flitting from book to book like a humming bird stoking up on... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Winding Down

  

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  Posted on 09 August 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Aunt Dodie's First Appearance

  

  I can't resist sharing with you all a bit from that unpublished first book. Elizabeth is on vacation at the coast and has discovered a body on the beach. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Sky ~ Tree ~ Cloud

  

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  Posted on 07 August 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Nan's Summer Sangria

  

  When I did a post a while back about making limoncello, Nan suggested I try this . . . And Justin and Claui were up for dinner and John made pizza and there... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• And Other Summer Joys

  

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  Posted on 05 August 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Our Wildlife Feeding Program

  

  We always plant more corn than we really need because something usually gets a lot of it -- worms, crows, cows . . . This year John put an electric fence... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Extreme Editing - Part 2

  

  Several people on Facebook wanted to know if I was going to try to publish that first Elizabeth book, now that I'm editing it. Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• In the Kitchen

  

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  Posted on 02 August 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Extreme Editing: Part 1

  

  I'm sitting here on the sofa with my laptop and the rug at my feet is littered with a (virtual) rising tide of discarded adverbs -- softly, slowly, evenly,... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• On the Last Day of July (Thank Goodness!)

  

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  Posted on 31 July 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Poke

  

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  Posted on 30 July 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Pesto Time

  

  Fortunately the deer don't seem to like basil so I had a gracious plenty to harvest and turn into pesto. 4 cups basil leaves (tight packed- you can substitute... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Lost in the Cosmos

  

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  Posted on 28 July 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• My Own Southern Strategy

  

  There are so many great Southern summer sandwiches -- pimento cheese, BLTs, plain old mater and mayo -- I love them all but yesterday it was a cucumber... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Thinking Cool . . . This Too Shall Pass

  

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  Posted on 26 July 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• How You Can Help . . .

  

  The manuscript is in my agent's hands. It will be several weeks before she gets to it -- I'm far from her only client. I mentioned that there were some ways... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The End

  

  Yesterday I typed those magical words to my Shelton Laurel novel -- years in the making. I have to proofread the last three chapters I just finished and by... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Rain! And Other Blessings . . .

  

  1 Chapter To Go! Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Weird

  

  2 I didn't go to the Asheville library yesterday as on Wednesday I found Col. Allen's pamphlet hidden away in the Genealogy Room at the Madison County library. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2016 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY