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• 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

• A Popular Hangout

  

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  Posted on 07 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• In the Time of Tomatoes

  

  Oh, yes -- tomato time at last! Time for a fat slice of a ripe Cherokee Purple between slices of homemade bread slathered with h0memade mayonnaise -- Jane's... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Goodbye and Hello....

  

  The Indigo Bunting that appeared soon after a rarely seen (here at least) Scarlet Tanager alit in this same tree and left before I could get my camera. Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Food and Fun at Camp NoFun

  

  No TV, no video games, but blowing bubbles was on the list of activities . . . Our nephew Drew brought his son Jack out for the fun -- he and Lily are almost th... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Camp NoFun Redux

  

  Twenty-some years ago, our nieces Genie and Amelia would spend a few weeks of each summer with us. We called it Camp NoFun and one of the activities was always... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• No Words

  

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  Posted on 03 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Family Time

  

  Our nephew John decided that it was time to introduce his daughter Lily to the delights of the farm. His sister Genie decided to come too. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Antidote

  

  When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. . . Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Antidote

  

  When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. . . Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Overheard in the Pasture

  

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  Posted on 31 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Glorious Day

  

  We have been blessed with wonderful weather recently. An inch and a half of rain followed by temperatures in the seventies, dipping below sixty at night. It's... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Old and New

  

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  Posted on 29 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Preacher Comes to Dinner

  

  My, if that chicken don't look good. Fried chicken in a iron skillet is a dish fit fot a king . . . or a preacher. Law, that reminds me . . . Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Silent Sunday

  

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  Posted on 27 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• What's That Over There?

  

  Ohmigosh! Look at that on the steps? A Luna moth? Too green. A tropical butterfly somehow displaced to western North Carolina? Let me get a closer look . . . Oh... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• No Words Today

  

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  Posted on 25 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Conundrum . . .

  

  As I struggle with making sense of and writing about the divided loyalties (some of which remain strong today) in my region during the American Civil War, in th... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Writers' Bumper Stickers - Stroll/Poll

  

  A stroll through the Wildacres parking lot yielded this collection of bumper stickers -- mostly political, mostly of the Liberal/Progressive persuasion. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Don't Talk to Strangers

  

  This book grabbed me and wouldn't let go. Sure, it was a rainy day but I had plans to do some writing of my own. I'd started reading it late one night -- becaus... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY