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• Ona Blankenship (re-post)

  

  This is a re-post from 2008. "This is how I picture Miss Birdie," my friend Louise told me last night, handing me these two black and white photos. Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Wonderful Wet Weather!

  

  September 15 (First meeting) 6-8:30 pm at the Riverlink offices in Asheville. Forty Pages -- a class through the Great Smokies Writing Program on... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Twain's End

  

  Mark Twain has been a favorite of mine ever since I read Tom Sawyer many years ago. (The scene where Tom doses the cat with the tonic his aunt has been forcing... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Mellow Autumn

  

  September 15 (First meeting) 6-8:30 pm at the Riverlink offices in Asheville. Forty Pages -- a class through the Great Smokies Writing Program on... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Layla Update

  

  Layla is doing well and beginning, I think, to believe that this is where she belongs. She is not yet off leash outside except briefly -- and she's been good... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• And the Wheel Turns Autumnwards

  

  Summer's lushness fades, Air cools, leaves crisp, nights lengthen, And Autumn arrives. Seasons come and go . . . Seasons come and go . . . Day and night... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Advice from a Poet

  

  Words to live by, not just for poets and writers but for everyone. They are from One Hundred White Daffodils by the poet Jane Kenyon and I came across them in... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Asheville After the Rain

  

  I was in town yesterday to participate in a program of readings by members of the Great Smokies Writing Program. It was a pleasant, well-attended hour and a hal... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Walk on the New Road

  

  September 15 (First meeting) 6-8:30 pm at the Riverlink offices in Asheville. Forty Pages -- a class through the Great Smokies Writing Program on... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Franckle Found!

  

  After finding the note from my long ago student and posting about it Thursday, several folks here and on Facebook encouraged me to have a look for him to make... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Great Spangled Fritillary is Ready for Her Closeup

  

  At the end of the season, she's a tad faded but still beautiful. She posed most obligingly, side and front. Wings lowered, wings raised . . . And then she was... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• It Fluttered to the Floor . . .

  

  I'm still going through drawers and boxes and files in the great purge of my workroom and at some point, this folded bit of paper did, indeed, flutter to the... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Chinese Poem from the Tang Dynasty

  

  Here in the mountain village Evening falls peacefully. Half tipsy, I lounge in the Doorway. The moon shines in the Twilight sky. The breeze is so Gentle the... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Surrounded by Bits of Paper

  

  I'm in the midst of a massive cleaning and reorganization of my workroom -- and this involves cleaning out various folders of scribbled notes and sending them t... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Soul Food from Tampa

  

  Arroz con Pollo, aka Chicken and Yellow Rice, is a standard of Tampa cuisine. It's probably the most often ordered of the many dishes in the Spanish... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Sunday Scrapbook

  

  September 15 (First meeting) 6-8:30 pm at the Riverlink offices in Asheville. Forty Pages -- a class through the Great Smokies Writing Program on... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• After the Towers Fell

  

  there was a surge of hope across the land -- a sense of people working together, a sense of pride at the heroic responses of so many to the unspeakable horror... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Sunrise Sequence

  

  September 15 (First meeting) 6-8:30 pm at the Riverlink offices in Asheville. Forty Pages -- a class through the Great Smokies Writing Program on... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Catching Up with the Cows

  

  The cows are loving their new pasture! The grass is high and they are enjoying eating their way across the slopes. And when they're full, there's a lovely spot... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Three Little Biddies

  

  September 15 (First meeting) 6-8:30 pm at the Riverlink offices in Asheville. Forty Pages -- a class through the Great Smokies Writing Program on... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY