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• Garden Dreaming . . .

  

  Winter weather advisory, the radio guy just said. Time to pull out the seed catalogs and think about the garden. I have a nice little starter clutch of wish... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Instead of Snow...

  

  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 17 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Home Alone

  

  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 16 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Fast Forward to May --- As the Temperatures Plunge

  

  This is, perhaps, my way of putting my hands over my ears and singing "La la la -- Winter, I don't hear Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• On Valentine's Day

  

  Dorothy Parker: "One Perfect Rose" A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.All tenderly his messenger he chose;Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Minor Characters Have Their Say

  

  I'm not normally drawn to reworkings of classics -- not tempted by Pride and Prejudice and Zombies nor by Emma and the Werewolves -- nor by Kindle freebies whic... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Hi Def Citrus -- Not a Rapper

  

  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 12 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• 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