Marsha Ingrao – Always Write – Page 29 – Having fun blogging with friends

Photoshopped Foothill Peach Tree Orchard

Years ago I took a series of fruit tree pictures but I hated the sky. So I tried a trick from Leanne. I tried to make major changes to it. […]

Hobbies

Spring In The Sierra Nevada Foothills

When the foothills near Woodlake, CA receive record rainfall, the wildflowers (also known as nasty weeds) proliferate. Wild flowers? Wild flowers with a boy. This little guy is now over […]

Hobbies

The Needle (Not the Haystack)

Before I start this post I want to thank you all for coming to visit my site, reading all my posts, making wonderfully encouraging and engaging comments, and in general, […]

Blogging

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SUNDAY POST : Wonderful

I would really love to learn to do animation, however, for now, that skill is just going to be left for the future. I thought this was a wonderful picture […]

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Photo Challenge: Geometry

Do you see my water mark, Leanne? Just call me a copy cat. I love the way it came out. I was impressed not only with the deep troughs, but […]

Hobbies

Ka’anapali Coffee Farms

Knowing that my husband is a realtor helps explain to you why this excursion is a must every time we go to Maui. We look at houses. No, we are […]

Travel

Reviewing Books – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Thanks to ShareChair I ordered several classic books along with […]

Hobbies

Mama’s Fish House

Once in a lifetime you should save your pennies and head to Mama’s Fish House. OK make that save your $20.00 bills. To a mainlander it’s almost indescribable. Click to make […]

Hobbies

Whalers Village Museum

What do you do for a week in Maui when you’ve been there before? Several times. Even in Hawaii I can’t resist a museum. Last year we went to the […]

Travel

Sad Ohio Star

I took my Ohio Star to Barbara Graham, the quilting lady, to have it quilted. I had it all pinned ready to go. She said, “I should have it back […]

Hobbies

CBBH Photo Challenge: Blue

I heard about this MONTHLY photo challenge on East of Malaga’s website. Thanks EAST! The difference between this and other photo challenges is that at the end of your post, […]

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Happy Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE!

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Horseback in Hawaii

Like Lesley Carter, I have my bucket list. I also hold, sometimes unrealistic, admiration for people and because of that I want to try to do the things they do. […]

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Abstract Art

My former daughter-in-law is quite an artist. She can barely see, yet she turns out, what I think are absolutely beautiful paintings. I was talking to my new blogging friend […]

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: One Single Flower

I saw this challenge on Simply Captured and I liked her […]

Travel

FAQs About Time Share Traveling

You all know that I retired two months ago, and we are still in the process of deciding how to organize our lives. V likes the comfort of being at […]

Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign

This post was inspired by a prompt from WP Daily Post: Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign. In this case I chose to focus on the word foreign meaning outside the United States […]

Travel

Week at Ka’anapali Beach Club (KBC)

Do you prefer to relax or be very active on a vacation? Ka’anapali Beach Club, one of the Diamond Resorts in Maui, HI, might be a place you would enjoy. […]

Travel

Writing to a Prompt: A Complicated Subject

The WP Prompt: Take a complicated subject you know more about than most people, and explain it to a friend who knows nothing about it at all. If a writer […]

Travel

Tillamook Air Museum

October 24th is my younger brother, Randy’s, and my Grandfather’s birthday. I always enjoy these next two weeks because for that amount of time there is only one year between […]

Hobbies

Sunday Post: City

Jakeprinter’s Sunday Post this week is City. I love to travel, and most of all I love to go to museums when I travel. My step-son married in France, so […]

Travel

Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

SILHOUETTE. The proper definition of a silhouette is “the outline of a body viewed as circumscribing a mass.” http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/ Sometimes I accidentally produce pictures that are silhouettes, and these are some I […]

Travel

This is a perfect way to teach geography to young-ish children. If you teach social studies – you’ve got to start with geography – so I’ve been told!!! When you […]

Travel

Is There Like Beyond Spam?

Since my last post about spam when I was immediately removed from the WordPress blogging universe, I have had a breakthrough. It seems that they have fixed the problem of […]

Travel

One-Eyed Charlie

Every history teacher wants to pretend to be someone in history, I think. I had my shot at it for a fourth grade event called Butterfield Stage Days in Porterville, CA. […]

Travel

The Hilarity of Real Spam

Both Sex Gratis and Tattoo Age need to work a little on their persuasive writing skills. as well as their language usage. Maybe that is why the Common Core standards […]

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Beautiful Vase Revisited

My vase got a lot of attention last night, and experts have moved in to help me. I learned that my vase is vociferous noisy. I remember back in the […]

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Photoshop Elements 10

One of my favorite sites, Leanne Cole, regularly gives tips on how to alter her photos. I am just learning how to use Photoshop Elements 10. So tonight I practiced […]

Travel

GMC Motorhome

My husband and I were just talking about this motor home today, lamenting that we didn’t have any pictures of it. Yesterday I downloaded all my Tulare County pictures off […]

Personal Stories

Jury Duty

I’m retired two months, and the court has my number. “No worries,” I think to myself. I was the coordinator of Mock Trial for our county. I know TOO many […]

Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: Big

This week’s WordPress challenge is BIG. When I think of big, I usually think of an object – a big car, house, horse, dog, etc. We went to a large […]

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Sunday Post: Delicious

To meet Jake’s weekly Sunday Post challenge I know there are other delicious things in the world besides food, but MY thoughts almost always go to food. However, I don’t USUALLY take […]

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Americana Churn Dash Quilt

Wahoooooo I finished my 1850s Churn Dash doll quilt. The churn dash, named after a butter churn thingy called a dash, is a nine-patch quilt. That means you sew 9 […]

Hobbies

Quilting with Carmen

In the years preceding my retirement I bought stuff. I knew when I had more time I would return to childhood and young adult hobbies. So I prepared myself. Beside […]

Travel

Spam and Stats

Just a quick post tonight, but funny considering my spam troubles. I’m almost afraid to write comments anymore. Tonight I had no comments pending, and 4 in MY SPAM file. […]

Travel

Marsha Lee

I smiled to myself as I read my comments this morning. One of my younger new blogging friends called me “Ms. Lee”. A colleague asked me if I was using […]

Travel

Widow of the South and the Common Core

Attention English teachers!!! Revel in teaching literature for informational text and argument writing assignments using the genre of historical fiction. History teachers – join forces and use the same literature […]

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Stab At Haiku

Thirty-nine hours Face to face blossoms grinning Spring dreams never fade. Kudzu on phone poles Recalculating again Summer vacations Autumn reds and golds Birthdays remembered with joy. Reflected […]

Personal Stories

Blog and Retirement Management

Books are in place. I’m open for business.“What business?” you wonder, then you advise. “Well, Marsha, now that you are retired and blogging you ought to blog about things that […]

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Big Birds and Not-So-Big Birds

Big Bird has popped up everywhere since last night. Apparently he’s been flying all over protesting the presidential debate. This was my experiment for today. Big Birds are plentiful around […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: “Mine”

During all my searches to come out of your Spam folders, I discovered another photo challenge. Who can resist what is “mine”. So I will share with you what […]

Blogging

Questions I Have About Doing WP

I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to problem solve using the tools that companies – open source or otherwise – give their customers to take care of […]

Hobbies

The Neighborhood Morgan Car

One of our neighbors restores old cars. I thought you might enjoy seeing this one because it is so different. Morgan Motor Company is an English company which is still […]

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