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LATEST ARTICLES ( 4242 )

• Warts and All

  

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  Posted on 14 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• In Praise of Beauty

  

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  Posted on 13 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Oh, Deer!

  

  John looked up from his computer to see three deer, not twenty feet away on the slope directly behind the house.They were munching on the ground cover--a mix... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• More Ordinary Things

  

  Okay, it was childish of me, ten years ago, to buy the Spotted Dick pudding just because of the name. And probably even more childish to have saved the tin.... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Snowy Morning

  

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  Posted on 10 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Wedding Slipper

  

  More painting from objects, not photos. One of my maternal grandmother's wedding slippers. (Yes, I also have her wedding dress. . . Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Brrrr!

  

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  Posted on 08 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Mourning for America

  

  Mourning President Carter, a good and decent man whose long post-presidency life set an unparalleled example of good works and selflessness. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Looking East, 7:30 AM

  

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  Posted on 06 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Ordinary Things

  

  The Tampa cousins (both painters) have nudged me into attempting more drawing from life (rather than photos as is my wont.) This is the mug that follows me... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Does Sewing and Organizes a Zip Line

  

  It snowed today but school was out anyway and I wa up at Meema and Grumpy's. First (after pancakes) I did some sewing with the sewing kit Sandy gave me for... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Memory

  

  This old beauty showed up on a Face Book group about historic Tampa and I was delighted to see it. Back in the Fifties, my orphaned first cousins Ken and Logan... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Facing the New Year

  

  There are still blue skies and good people. May we look for the beauty and the good that is around us and mirror that, rather than the ugliness and hate that... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Rabbit, Rabbit, (Hare, Hare)

  

  And a Happy New Year to all! Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Bringing Thr Music

  

  Visiting cousins brought Josie a karaoke machine! Delight ensued. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2024 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Up Close

  

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  Posted on 30 December 2024 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Gingerbread Cake and Cranberry Coulis

  

  An excellent dessert, leftover from the Christmas feast. A moist gingerbread cake topped with a cranberry coulis and accompanied by homemade cinnamon ice... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2024 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Outside of Time

  

  The day never really dawned, as such. Misty, gray, chilly--it wasn't till about 3:30 that a brush of sun showed on the slopes across the river. And that was... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2024 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Hiraeth--A Repost

  

  Hiraeth (heer-eyeth) is a wonderfully evocative Welch word. It's defined as a homesickness for a place to which you can never return; nostalgia or yearning for... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2024 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Whew!

  

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  Posted on 26 December 2024 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY