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Vicki Lane Mysteries
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An eclectic mix of photography and thoughts on writing, Appalachia, books, memories, cooking, gardening,country living, pets, and more from the author of the Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mysteries.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 3936 )
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In the Midst of Life . . .
A phone call yesterday morning brought the news of the passing, after a battle with cancer, of a much-loved member of our 'new-comer' community here in Madison... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Black & White
Over on Facebook I've just done a five day challenge of posting a black white photo each day. I've never been especially drawn to B W, being really enrapture... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Morning Walk
Bob and I greeted the sun from the tractor road above the house. A better view without That Tree in the way . . . We came down and followed another tractor... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Finding Focus
Suddenly my camera wouldn't focus. I was having visions of expensive repair when I remembered this had happened before and my photographer friend Cory had... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
A Taste of Freedom
GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Phryne Fisher and Nancy Drew
The Nancy Drew books (in their earlier incarnations) were one of my early reading addictions -- at one point I owned most of them and devoured them eagerly. Read more
Posted on 06 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Vernacular Architecture
GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Minority Report from the Kittehs
GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
"Must Really Say Damn..."
The title is a quote from The Dowager Duchess of Denver in Dorothy L. Sayers's GAUDY NIGHT . . . the pictures are from yesterday morning . . . Read more
Posted on 03 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
In Wilderness
My editor occasionally sends me advance reading copies so that I might write a blurb, should I feel so moved. Diane Thomas's IN WILDERNESS is one of the best ye... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
A New Month Dawning
GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Plain of Feature and Certainly Overweight
When I saw this picture, my first thought was that it looked a good bit like my sweet paternal grandmother -- and probably a bit like me. Read more
Posted on 31 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Once There Was a Little Country Srore
This one sits in the front yard of a now abandoned house in sight of our mailbox. Burder still lived in the house when we first moved here but the bbuilding... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Seen in January
GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more
Posted on 29 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
As She Left It
is my most recent read -- and I think the first Catriona McPherson novel I've read. An Anthoiny award winner last year, it's set in modern day northern England... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Angels and Ghosts in My Garden?
What is this mysterious orb? An angel? A ghost? Or something else ? (Cue Twilight Zone theme . . Read more
Posted on 27 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Finding William Patton Jones
The following is an email received from a volunteer in the Archives of Maryville College: Thank you for contacting Maryville College about the ledger that you... Read more
Posted on 26 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Random Tweets
Does anyone else get a weird feeling when that little sign pops up on Facebook and says that So-and-so is following you? Have you ever been talking to someone... Read more
Posted on 25 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Goin' to California (in My Mind)
Yesterday was cold and wet . . . so I revisited scenes from 2012 and a trip to Santa Cruz. Read more
Posted on 24 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY -
W Not M . . . and On Inter-conectedness . . .
Back to that Ledger. A closer look tells me it's W. Jones -- not M. I remain fascinated with this guy with his lost baseball (10 cents,) his 'segars' and plugs... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY