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• Last Year's Butterflies

  

  Alas, the butterfly bushes were hit by a late freeze and killed back to the roots. They have put forth shoots but there are no blooms. These are pictures from... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Rainy Day and Cool

  

  We have been blessed with a day so cool it called for flannel shirts. Happy to be in the mountains of NC! Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Summer Scenes

  

  Hay in the field . . .A neighbor's late-blooming wisteria . . .Fog-bejeweled spiderwebs adorn a gate . . .A sentinel mullein . . .Like money in the bank, a... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Gardening Angels

  

  At the PO on Monday, I was delighted to meet and thank the ladies responsible for these beautiful little gardens. The ladies were hard at it, grubbing up weeds. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• More Treasure for the Castle People

  

  My Castle People have golden treasure. (It is really painted oyster shells.) They have had six FOREVER because JoEllen who is my Uncle Drew Walton's mama sent... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Milkweed

  

  And the happiest of birthdays to my first born! I will spare him the sentimental memories and pictures, but I will say that he has always been a joy to us. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Too Hot

  

  Actually, not so much hot as heavy, oppressive air. I am finding it hard to do much of anything other than drink iced tea and read. (Re-read, that is, John... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Got It This Time

  

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  Posted on 15 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Dogs on the Porch

  

  We were enjoying a pre-supper glass of wine on the porch and watching a thunderstorm moving our way. The dogs don't approve of thunder and lightning, but they... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Rosie's World (repost)

  

  Of course, many of you know that I base the Goodweather farm in the Elizabeth Goodweather Mysteries on ours. So, let's pretend for a moment, that we're in the... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Sunrise

  

  I grabbed this first picture and, thinking there was time before the sun showed, ran back inside to put on something over my thin nightgown--it was beautifully... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie's Bestiary--In Her Own Words

  

  This is a Dingola Poopfloot. It is very rare but there are a lot of them. It is one-half horse, one-half dog, one-half alligator. one-half Meema, and one-half... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Sphinx Moth, I Think

  

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  Posted on 10 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Iconic Summer Supper

  

  Chicken salad! Just like my mother and grandmother made, though I add curry powder and a good deal more onion to the chicken, apples, celery, and mayo... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Close to Home

  

  For days Hosta had been watching Foxglove, admiring their deep lavender bells, so enticing to the bumble bees. Hosta leaned out over the stone walkway, hoping... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• More Watercolors

  

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  Posted on 07 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• WOKE--What's in a Word?

  

  Much as Communist or Socialist has been a handy scare-word since the Fifties for the Right to hang on anyone with progressive social views, now woke is the... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Closer Look

  

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  Posted on 05 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Not Feeling the Fourth

  

  I'm finding little to celebrate as the Supreme Court chips away at hard won freedoms and the GOP continues in thrall to a criminal and con-man. Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• My Kind of Fireworks

  

  Once I enjoyed fireworks. The explosion of color against a dark sky, the changing patterns, the inevitable ooooh of the watchers. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY