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• 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

• 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

• No Words

  

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  Posted on 03 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