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• Working on Our Life List

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Garden Dreaming . . .

  

  Winter weather advisory, the radio guy just said. Time to pull out the seed catalogs and think about the garden. I have a nice little starter clutch of wish... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Instead of Snow...

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Home Alone

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Fast Forward to May --- As the Temperatures Plunge

  

  This is, perhaps, my way of putting my hands over my ears and singing "La la la -- Winter, I don't hear Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• On Valentine's Day

  

  Dorothy Parker: "One Perfect Rose" A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.All tenderly his messenger he chose;Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Minor Characters Have Their Say

  

  I'm not normally drawn to reworkings of classics -- not tempted by Pride and Prejudice and Zombies nor by Emma and the Werewolves -- nor by Kindle freebies whic... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Hi Def Citrus -- Not a Rapper

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• In the Midst of Life . . .

  

  A phone call yesterday morning brought the news of the passing, after a battle with cancer, of a much-loved member of our 'new-comer' community here in Madison... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Black & White

  

  Over on Facebook I've just done a five day challenge of posting a black white photo each day. I've never been especially drawn to B W, being really enrapture... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Morning Walk

  

  Bob and I greeted the sun from the tractor road above the house. A better view without That Tree in the way . . . We came down and followed another tractor... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Finding Focus

  

  Suddenly my camera wouldn't focus. I was having visions of expensive repair when I remembered this had happened before and my photographer friend Cory had... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Taste of Freedom

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Phryne Fisher and Nancy Drew

  

  The Nancy Drew books (in their earlier incarnations) were one of my early reading addictions -- at one point I owned most of them and devoured them eagerly. Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Vernacular Architecture

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Minority Report from the Kittehs

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• "Must Really Say Damn..."

  

  The title is a quote from The Dowager Duchess of Denver in Dorothy L. Sayers's GAUDY NIGHT . . . the pictures are from yesterday morning . . . Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• In Wilderness

  

  My editor occasionally sends me advance reading copies so that I might write a blurb, should I feel so moved. Diane Thomas's IN WILDERNESS is one of the best ye... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A New Month Dawning

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Plain of Feature and Certainly Overweight

  

  When I saw this picture, my first thought was that it looked a good bit like my sweet paternal grandmother -- and probably a bit like me. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY