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• Photo Phun ( I DO Love Color!

  

  May 31 - June 6 JOHN C. CAMPBELL FOLK SCHOOL - A Practical Guide to Writing Popular Fiction i'll be leading a class for all levels in the nuts and bolts of... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Mixed Bag

  

  May 31 - June 6 JOHN C. CAMPBELL FOLK SCHOOL - A Practical Guide to Writing Popular Fiction i'll be leading a class for all levels in the nuts and bolts of... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Happy May Day, to You All and Especially to Vagabonde

  

  Vagabonde -- whose wonderful blog RECOLLECTIONS OF A VAGABONDE is always full of beautiful pictures and fascinating history, commented yesterday on my post abou... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Wildflowers-- and a Reminder

  

  Crested Dwarf Iris Tomorrow is the First of May and I'll be on the lookout for rain so that I can get wet in the first rain of May, thereby ensuring good... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Celebration for Claui

  

  My darling daughter-in-law Claui passed her boards and in now a Registered Nurse! It' s been a long, long road and she's traversed it with style and grace. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Squirrel Hunting. .

  

  This first picture is, as most of you will recognize, from our front porch. The rest were taken from the car window on my way to and from the grocery store. Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Simple Pleasures

  

  A neighbor's laundry and flag flapping in the breeze . . . Lovely little lilies of the valley . . . A morel! Spotted in our orchard and sauteed with butter and... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Sometimes the Light is Perfect...

  

  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 26 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Back to the Garden

  

  Time to clear the weeds off the box beds so they can dry out a bit, be tilled, and planted. It's no hardship being out on a beautiful day like this. An early... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Overheard in the Herd-- Feelings

  

  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 24 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• And the Green Tide Rolls . . .

  

  Creeping across the land . . . Rejoicing the mountainsides . . . Decking each tree in fresh finery . . . Shimmering and singing . . . In a tapestry woven from... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Cream of Spring Soup

  

  First get a pair of gloves. These dish washing gloves are perfect as they come up a ways on my arms and will protect me from being stung. Because stinging... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Rain and Shine

  

  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 21 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Of Books and Book Pushers

  

  I've been accused of being a book pusher -- but when I read a book and really enjoy it, I just have to tell folks about it, And there are often great suggestion... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Sunday Stroll

  

  Wood Hyacinth Azaleas, Pink Dogwood, and Redbud Buckeye Bloom Purple Trilium aka Wake Robin Dwarf Crested Iris Yellow Violet Bleeding Heart Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• April the Cruelest Month ? -- Oh, Thos. Stearns, I Have to Disagree!

  

  April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Opening lines of The Waste... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Old Friends

  

  Oriental magnolia Elizabeth and I have known each other for about sixty years (she and John and I were in the same class in junior high school back in Tampa. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Around the Road

  

  On Monday I went around the mountain to a friend's house to do some quilting. This quilt has been in the works as a gift for a member of our community for an... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• On a Misty Day in April

  

  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 14 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Wastin' Away . . . One Life at a TIme

  

  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 13 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY