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LATEST ARTICLES ( 4316 )

• Dawning

  

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  Posted on 10 June 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Frog, Flowers, Indictment, and More

  

  Welcome news that the Former Guy has been indicted over the documents at Mar a Lago. We'll see how it plays out. While I'd love to imagine him doing hard time i... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Native Plantings at Our Amazing Library

  

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  Posted on 08 June 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie is Back from the Beach

  

  I have been at the beach with Grandma and Apa! I learned how to ride a Boogie Board and how to body surf! And I went far out in the ocean all by myself!! It... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Everyone's an Art Critic--Bailey Update

  

  Bailey removed two of my watercolor efforts from the shelf where I'd left them between some books and proceeded to chew on them.She doesn't know much about... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• This Is Not a Chair

  

  We've been friends with Drew and Louise Langsner for almost fifty years. We've known Drew as a master craftsman and teacher of woodworking and, at heart, an... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Pride

  

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  Posted on 04 June 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Gardening Can Be Murder

  

  I was delighted to receive an advance copy of Marta McDowell's latest. Marta became a blog friend some years ago when I discovered her delightful prose. Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Wisteria Viewing

  

  John called from the lower place where he'd been mowing and proposed that we take a bottle of bubbly down to the pond and enjoy a pre-supper bit of wisteria... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Hare Hears Night

  

  Rabbit, rabbit . . . Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Neat Stuff for Me Josie

  

  My school gave Nature Exploring Kits to all of us kindergarteners. There was a book about things to look for and binoculars to look with. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Gifts of Age

  

  After putting it off for years, I finally took myself to the dermatologist to have a couple of suspicious spots looked at. "Gifts of age," she told me, after a... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Memorial Day--The Old Lie

  

  Dulce et Decorum Est BY WILFRED OWENBent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Silent Sunday

  

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  Posted on 28 May 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Lovely Luna

  

  As we headed out on Thursday for Josie's graduation, this beauty was waiting for us on the trellis by the front steps.Lunas are a rare sight and the appearance... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Kindergarten Graduation!

  

  A momentous day as four kindergarten classes graduated. There was a solemn procession in to the tune of "Land of Hope and Glory," there were songs by the... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Pastoral

  

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  Posted on 25 May 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A (Very) Long Time Favorite

  

  I've been trying to adhere to an every other night vegetarian routine--various pastas, beans and rice, all kinds of tasty stuff. Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Different Tarot

  

  My older son (an English major) sent me (another English major) these literary Tarot cards for Mother's Day. Instead of Wands, Swords, Cups, and Pentacles. the... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Clematis and Friends

  

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  Posted on 22 May 2023 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY