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• I Hab A Bad Code in the Head

  

  Will schedule this post now and get to bed before 7 pm. These hopeful signs... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Writing Class at John C. Campbell

  

  From the Department of Shameless Self-Promotion: Come June, on the 7th to the 13th, I'll be back at John C. Campbell for my eighth year of leading a class calle... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Floating World

  

  Island mountains rise Out of a sea of white mist In this floating world. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Green Resolutions

  

  So, Australia is on fire, the Amazon rain forest is being destroyed, there is more plastic in the ocean than fish, there are still children in cages and... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Stone Trolls

  

  In Tolkien's Middle Earth, sunlight can turn trolls to stone. Is that what happened here? Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

  

  My New Year's Day treat. A multi-generational novel centered around a grand house, its inhabitants, and their sometimes surprising obsessions. Love and hate... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Happy New Year!!!

  

  Can you see the future? May it be bright And full of beauty. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2020 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie and The Room

  

  When I stay with Meema and Grumpy, I like to play in The Room. My bed is there and lots and lots of my stuff. I have a box of dress up things... like my farmer... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Shetland Binge

  

  My friendly local book pusher/enabler brought me a big old bunch of books a while back and I began with the first of the Shetland series and never looked back. Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Trees Are Writing Messages on the Sky

  

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  Posted on 29 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• My Brain Still Hurts

  

  As I mentioned earlier, it is our family tradition to torment each other with riddling clues as to what is beneath the wrapping paper before the gift is... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Glimpset of Josie's Christmas

  

  This is a GIANT octopus Aunt Aileen crocheted... Eight long tentacles with suckers all up and down them! There was also a hedgehog! And a doctor kit... With a... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Miss Birdie and the Tamalada

  

  Why look who's here! And busy as you must be on Christmas Eve. Come right in and git you a chair. You got a house full, I reckon. Rosemary and her man stopped b... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Christmas Riddles

  

  Much of yesterday was taken up with wrapping presents and (this is the hard part) coming up with riddling clues as to what might be inside the package. I found... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Flowering Quince Thinks It's Spring

  

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  Posted on 22 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Shortest Day and the Longest Night

  

  The great wheel turns and we hang garlands of light inside and out, bring in evergreen boughs and a tree in token of our confidence that the wheel will... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Random Notes

  

  Amidst a tizzy of holiday prep -- wrapping gifts, cooking, bringing in greenery-- a few small items to share: When I was struggling to get Josie buckled into he... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• And the Tree Is Done!

  

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  Posted on 19 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• There Might Be an Elephant

  

  Or, a bald eagle. That's why I try to always take along my camera. I almost didn't yesterday because the weather was rainy but how glad I am I did. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie's Story

  

  Yesterday Meema and I were reading books in the living room when there was a loud knock on the door. 'Who could it be?' Meema said. So we went to see who it... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY