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• Sunshine and Hummers

  

  After several days of beautiful soaking rain and blissfully cool temperatures, it was nice to see the sun again and snap a few pictures before the clouds... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• What Is It?

  

  At Wildacres I found this mysterious arrangement at the base of a tree in the parking lot. My first thought was of the Yunwi Tsundi -- the Cherokee Little Peopl... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Wordless

  

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  Posted on 19 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Narrow Fellow

  

  I was out back planting a hosta when this narrow fellow (as Emily Dickinson called a snake in one of her poems) came from somewhere below the house, and... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Where the Bee Sucks . . .

  

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  Posted on 17 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Accidental Birds of the Carolinas

  

  One of the pleasures of Wildacres is hearing fellow faculty members read from their work. Marjorie Hudson's beautiful reading of "New World Testament"... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• After the Rain

  

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  Posted on 15 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Kittehs Are Excited That I'm Back!

  

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  Posted on 14 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Week at Wildacres

  

  See that picture above? I like to think that's Inspiration pouring down on Wildacres -- the idyllic retreat just off the Blue Ridge Parkway that was the scene o... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• I'm Off...

  

  I I'm leaving today for a week long writing workshop at Wildacres. It's a great gig -- I lead a workshop for half of each day and the rest of the time is mine t... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Pocket Plunder

  

  What would Sherlock Holmes make of this collection that I gathered from the little bowl into which my husband empties his pockets every night? (There was loose... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Sweat Therapy -- Suckering and Tying Up Tomatoes

  

  Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything -- except itself. ~ May Sarton ~ Plant Dreaming Deep, Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Oh Dear, Oh Dear . . .

  

  I admired Justice Ginsberg's dissent to the Hobby Lobby decision. She and the other female justices all dissented -- it was the old white guys and the... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• In the Dinosaur Jungle . . . Cue Les Baxter

  

  For those of you unfamiliar with Les Baxter, here's a LINK to an album of his that, during my teenage years, I played late into the night . . . My mother though... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• High Country Festival of the Book

  

  These beautiful lilies were blazing in the side yard of the historic Jones House in downtown Boone, NC yesterday where I was part of a mystery panel. Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• I Feel Calmer Now...

  

  Drifting like a cloud . . . Appreciating Nature . . . And there is a cat. Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Of Insects, Idiots, and Ann Coulter . . . But I Repeat Myself

  

  "I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer." Ann Coulter, who seems to have her knickers in a twist over the World... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• From the Archives -- My Second Favorite Place to Be . . .

  

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  Posted on 26 June 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Goodbye, Mike

  

  I didn't know Mike well... but I liked him at once. Partly because he looked like so many of the men on my father's side of the family with his white hair and... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Sum-Sum-Summertime

  

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  Posted on 24 June 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY