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• The Cats Are Indignant

  

  It's opening!Such a mid-winter miracle. . . I love watching it unfurl . . .Angeline is not impressed. Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• No Snow, No Words -- Just Orchids

  

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  Posted on 09 January 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Yggdrasil Ice Medallion

  

  It appeared on a dining room window yesterday morning... A frost patch that made me think of Yggdrasil, the World Tree of Old Norse mythology...Yggdrasil, a hug... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

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  Posted on 07 January 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Bread Pudding Nostalgia

  

  I had one of these little toy electric ovens back at the end of the Forties -- before litigation took the fun out of toys. No wimpy light bulb cooking and... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Still More Snow Pictures

  

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  Posted on 05 January 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• It WAS the First Snow of the Year...

  

  Alas for the Florida cousins who'd hoped to see snow during their visit -- they left just a tad too soonNot an especially heavy snow but pretty, as always.And... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Little Night Snow

  

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  Posted on 03 January 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Christmas Books!

  

  This gorgeous picture of a blooming artichoke is one of 365 plates in The Flower Garden -- based on original hand-colored copper plate engravings in the Hortus... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Not a Resolution but a Question ...

  

  That question has been echoing in my mind for some time. It comes from Mary Oliver's beautiful poem "The Summer Day"...Who made the world?Who made the swan,... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2014 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Goodbye to 2013...

  

  Today is breaking up Christmas at our house -- or at least, undecorating the tree so it can get hauled out of the house thereby helping us avoid bad luck in... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Stylin'

  

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  Posted on 30 December 2013 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Old Barn

  

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  Posted on 29 December 2013 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Back on the Horse

  

  Christmas was tough for my older son and his wife. They had to cancel their trip to the farm as their beloved Lyca had unresolvable issues with walking. Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Corvus

  

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  Posted on 27 December 2013 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Crisco Joy

  

  Sometimes it's the little things that make me smile -- the patches of light on the mountains as the clouds play peek-a-boo with the sun . . . Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2013 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Perfectly Politically Correct... I Hope

  

  (I am not the author of the following and I don't know who was -- probably a lawyer; what do you think?)Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, m... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2013 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Anticipation...

  

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  Posted on 24 December 2013 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Hair Spam

  

  Sharing an especially enigmatic message I received -- all pictures from the internet."If you have a great rectangular confront lowering make the impression of... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Hot Nuts

  

  A terrific party snack or hostess gift -- quick and easy...and addictive.You'll need a pound of pecan halves (the pictures show a doubled recipe,) 3... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2013 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY