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• 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

• 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