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• Little Pleasures

  

  Apple Blossoms Shadows Yellow Trillium Thread Leaf Japanese Maple Ramps! They're Back! Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Signs of Spring (Non-Floral)

  

  Time to wash the windows and put up the screens! It's a joy to have fresh air in the house after a long and doggy winter. Time to let the pillows bake in the... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Oh! The Beauty and Joy of It!

  

  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 10 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Have You Ever Been Betrayed?

  

  I just recently read a book which left me feeling, well, betrayed. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald, was on special offer from Kindle and I downloaded it... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Wordless Wednesday

  

  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 08 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Quilt Closeups from the Easter Party . . . and Links to Albums

  

  When I got down to the barn yesterday morning, the cleanup crew was hard at work -- all had travel plans and had to be flying back to California or driving to... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Fine Day

  

  Of course I have more pictures and will make a web album sometime this week. But here's a taste of our Easter celebration. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Joyous Easter!!!

  

  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 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Getting Ready for the Easter Party

  

  Draping pastel dyed sheets over the woodworking tools . . . And hanging quilts . . . This year all the quilts were made or designed by Libby Woodruff . . . who... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Free Range Chickens

  

  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 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• My First Time

  

  Whirrrrr . . . Whoosha . . . Whappety Whap . . . Shhhhzzzz . . . Ploop . . . Ploop . . .Whshhh . . . Shwpp . . . Shwpp . . . Shwpp . . . Have you figured it out... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Bloomers!

  

  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 02 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Dan -- A Good and Faithful Dog

  

  I wish this were an April Fool joke but it's not. Dan, John's faithful shadow, is gone. Dan had slowed down considerably in the past few years and been unable t... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Under Magnolia

  

  Frances Mayes was the keynote speaker last weekend and though I'd cherished hopes of of getting to tell her how much I love her books on Tuscany (Under the... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• More Random Dahlonega

  

  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 30 March 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Dahlonega At Ramdom

  

  The authors stayed at Lily Creek Lodge . . . Where we were treated to wine and very nice food on Friday night. When I wasn't on a panel, I took pictures , , ,... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• From the Thomas Wolfe House

  

  (Not from Dahlonega -- pre-scheduled and from last Wednesday in Asheville) Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Off to Dahlonega!

  

  I'm heading south this morning on my way to the Dahlonega Literary Festival (more info HERE.) I'll be on some panels on Saturday and Sunday and will be at Don... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• I Was Toad to Wait Here

  

  When I came home last night from my class, it was dark and our little solar outdoor lights were all aglow. And one clever toad had found a warm spot to sit and... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Random Act of Kindness Remembered . . . .

  

  Facebook occasionally really strikes a nerve. You may have seen the photo below of a physician crying in the hospital parking lot after the death of a patient. Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY