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• In Solidarity

  

  Kudos to the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that, despite the horrific terrorist attack on its office that killed ten of its journalists, as well as tw... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Perspective . . .

  

  Pillars of Creation,( photo from NASA.) It's five light-years high. Five light-years high! Incubator of stars. 6,500 light-years from Earth -- so far, in fact,... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• In the Window... As the Temperature Plummets

  

  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 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Say What?!?

  

  I had my yearly checkup last week -- I have an under-active thyroid and have to have a blood test once a year to make sure my thyroid prescription is the right... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Who Knows What the Second Photo Is?

  

  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 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Blue and Yellow for the New Year

  

  My eyes, tired of red and green, find blue and yellow quite refreshing, so as soon as the tree is gone, I pull out the blue and yellow bits . . . quilts and... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Cloud That Ate Barnett Mountain

  

  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 03 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Going to the River

  

  A mountain stream on its way to the river. . . This one, from Rabbit Rock Holler next to us, will trickle through the culvert under the hard road to join with... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Happy New Year to Everyone!

  

  My winter jasmine above one of the rock walls broke into bloom a few days ago. It seems a fine way to greet the New Year. May 2015 be good to all of us! Thank... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Breaking Up Christmas Again

  

  Time to take down the tree and get it out of the house before the New Year. I am so ready to see all the red and green, not to mention the increasingly flammabl... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• N!ew Readings

  

  Christmas always brings a new crop of reading material -- and not nearly enough time to read. But I have managed to gobble down Z -- a novel about the... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Frosting

  

  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 December 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Hiraeth

  

  (heer-eyeth) is a wonderfully evocative Welch word I recently learned. It's defined as a homesickness for a place to which you can never return; nostalgia or... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!

  

  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 27 December 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Seven Years

  

  After several gloomy days, the sun shone on our Christmas breakfast, making the holiday bright indeed. To add to the joy, both sons and both daughters-in-law... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Merry Christmas!

  

  Mr. Sawyer was wearing a Santa hat when I went out Monday. Oh my way back, I stopped to give him a tin of cookies and to thank him for his Christmas displays... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Miss Birdie's Christmas Memories

  

  Why, how proud I am to see you here on Christmas Eve! Come on in and get you a chair. Oh, my, is this some of your cranberry bread? Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Legal Point Clarified

  

  Look for Miss Birdie tomorrow. . . Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Muhummara -- Roasted Red Pepper and Walnut Dip

  

  This is the great dip one of the members of my writing workshop brought to our last class meeting. I emailed her to ask for the recipe and when I didn't hear... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Season is the Reason . . . for Some of Us

  

  Solstice! The day the sun stops its steady crawl to the south and looks northward once again. In the picture below the sun is rising at its southernmost point. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY