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• Labor Day

  

  Put away the white shoes. Move the seersucker to the back of the closet. It's Labor Day -- the beginning of the fall season (even if it's still way too hot. Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Quilt Stories . . .

  

  This is the other side of all those squares of newspaper I showed you yesterday -- a string-pieced quilt top. I was amazed when one of my students passed on... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• What Is It?

  

  A puzzle . . . of which, more tomorrow . . . Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Web Woes

  

  Our internet is still down but thanks to Justin and Claui and the loan of a handy-dandy little WiFi gizmo, we are back on line, more or less. Meanwhile, there... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Lily + Ali

  

  When our great niece Lily visited a few weeks ago, she and Ali pretty much fell in love. He slept on the bed with her and, now that she's gone, he comes up... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Yes, I Can

  

  I've told this story before but I love it so much, by golly, here I go again. Almost forty years ago, after we had made our move to the farm and become caught u... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The New Guy

  

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  Posted on 24 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• None of That Here . . .

  

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  Posted on 23 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Taking It for Granite . . .

  

  The kittehs were appalled. Actually, so were we, on discovering that the wooden underpinnings of our sink were being gnawed on by larder beetles, dropping a... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• In a Friend's Garden

  

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  Posted on 21 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Doe Branch Ink

  

  A few years ago, I heard that a writers' retreat had sprung up on Doe Branch, just seven miles down the road from our farm. Cool, I thought and filed the info... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Autumn Approaches . . .

  

  It's coming . . . Fields of tobacco are golden and harvest-ready . . . Some of the maples are beginning to turn . . . Autumn Clematis (Virgin's Bower) is drapin... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Beatrix Potter;s Gardening Life

  

  Marta McDowell's charming look at Beatrix Potter's world traces Potter's development as a gardener and as an artist. (the two are inextricably linked) and... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Photo Potpourri

  

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  Posted on 17 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Rugby Writing Workshop - 2014

  

  Last weekend's writing workshop in istoric Rugby was a delight. We met in the (partially) restored Uffington House that was built for Madame Hughes -- the... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Kittehs Observe . . .

  

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  Posted on 15 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Goodbye

  

  Paper pennants, decorations for the wedding in June, were still flying, a little faded, some missing -- a poignant reminder of the joy that had filled us all... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Such Strange Birds

  

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  Posted on 13 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Where Are the Words?

  

  How do you comprehend something like this? Teo, the big, sweet-faced young man whose wedding to Naomi I chronicled a short two months ago, was killed in a... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• How Do You Like Your Sunflowers?

  

  I'm off to Rugby, Tennessee to lead a weekend critique workshop, leaving you all with these various treatments of sunflowers. I won't be posting till probably... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY