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• An Ideal Nursery

  

  I always loved the descriptions of nurseries in certain English books-- Mary Poppins, for example. The ideal nursery was a large, light-filled room, full of... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• When Death Comes by Mary Oliver

  

  When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Looking for the Cantrell Child -- Re-Post from 2009

  

  Last Friday seemed like a good day to explore a graveyard. My brother was visiting from Alabama and I enlisted him to go with me to look for the Cantrell child'... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Fading Glory

  

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  Posted on 22 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Loves the Library

  

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  Posted on 21 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Cosmos -- Then and Now

  

  Fenestrae Coeli Apertae-Johann Jakob Scheuchzer 1781 Crab Nebula --NASA Under the Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud- NASA Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Novel of Manners

  

  I blame my grandmother. When I lay sick with measles in a darkened room, she read to me. And she read books from her girlhood -- at the turn of the previous... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• My Wheel of Mystery--Re-post

  

  Wheel of Mystery -- one of the names given to this quilt pattern of interlocking circles. I pieced my quilt by hand, some years ago, working at it on the days... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• How Can I Keep from Singing?

  

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  Posted on 17 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Editing

  

  ...which is pretty much all I've been doing for the past two weeks -- along with keeping Josie two and three days a week. (I'm using Josie pics for this post... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A World of Epsilon Minuses?

  

  Wikipedia I recently re-read Brave New World, Huxley’s dystopian vision of a future in which humanity is managed to produce an optimum number of various... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

  

  I zoomed through this book, lent me by one of my book pusher friends. It boasts two good hooks: The Pack Horse librarians of Depression-era Kentucky, intrepid... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• First Snow

  

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  Posted on 13 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Takes Tea

  

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  Posted on 12 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Veterans Day 2019

  

  Just in time for Veteran's Day, President Bonespurs is ordered to make restitution for using donations to vets as a personal piggy bank. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Lingering Gold

  

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  Posted on 10 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Dang! . . .

  

  Fifty six years . . . where does the time go? Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehesi Coates

  

  My reading of this debut novel by a highly acclaimed writer of non-fiction was somewhat interrupted by recent events and I fear I can't do it justice. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Dancing Josie

  

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  Posted on 07 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Beauty Remains

  

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  Posted on 06 November 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY