Marsha Ingrao – Always Write – Page 30 – Having fun blogging with friends

Walking on Ice

I haven’t been reblogging as much as I used to, but this is amazing. Have YOU ever been inside a glacier ice cave? Do you think you ever will be?

Wildflower Photography Class

I’ve been shopping at Mike’s Quality Camera for several years, since I got my digital camera at Costco, and the original lens quit working correctly (after the warranty expired). Unfortunately […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

I enjoy the WordPress challenges. This one, UP, was particularly fun. Up is ubiquitous. As I looked up my photos, “up” took on one meaning after another. Some of my […]

Photo Challenges

Where to Find Color for a Photo Challenge Like an Expert

Weekly Photo Challenge: Color Woodlake Botanical Gardens At the Kiwanis […]

Wordless Wednesday: Purity

I’ve Been Tagged

Before I start, I want to speak my condolences to those in Boston, and my prayers are with you. As I was digging into Ute‘s blog today I found out […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

I started quilting many years ago, then took about a 35 year break. Over the years the quilting hobby changed drastically. This year I noticed that quilters incorporate much more bling […]

Travel theme: Benches

Today I went with my friend Connie to the Best of the Valley Quilt Show at the McDermont Field House in Lindsay, CA. It was so overwhelming, I decided to […]

Silent Sunday: My Lips Are Sealed

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Kiwanis Roundup for Hunger

Can you believe that I could get somewhere – anywhere at 6:15 a.m.?Good, that means you know me pretty well. I got there at 6:25 a.m., complete with camera, but […]

Need Faith In the Future? Interview Today’s Students

Want more hope? Today I got a major shot of […]

What Are You Reading?

“What did you read today?” asks my book-reviewing blogging friend, Marcia. That question made me examine my reading habits. What I really love is drivel. Shock! I thought I was […]

A Valleycation Date in Kingsburg and Fresno California

Vince and I scheduled today as a valleycation date. I […]

Bravo Lake Is All Filled Up

Sally Pace and I walked around Bravo Lake for the first time together on February 12. It was so empty. I darkened it to show you how sad it looked, […]

A Glimpse of Woodlake Meandering Through Time

My friend Sally Pace commissioned me to write about the history of Woodlake for the Kiwanis Magazine, maybe 300 words or less. Woodlake, a sleepy town born in 1910 in […]

Pickers – Orange You Glad It’s Him Pickin’ and Not YOU!

Are they pickin’ and grinnin’? No – not that kind […]

Oranges and their Savior, the Great and Powerful Wind Machine

No, it’s not mirrors and magic like the Great and […]

Photoshop Sky – So easy!

Of course we want reality in our lives. That’s why we put on make-up, and fake nails, hair, clothing that slims, clothing that builds up, paint our fences, and I […]

Dam 50th Anniversary

What would you do with an unruly river that tumbles 12,000 feet from the Sierra Nevada Mountains starting in the Sequoia National Park? No other North American river, including the […]

A Drive to Sequoia National Park

I thoroughly prepared myself for a day of work. I was going to work on my quilt. but Mary called, and off we went to the Sequoia National Park. We […]

WordPress Anniversary – New Experiments

I just passed my one year anniversary with WordPress. Granted, I think all I did in March was turn on the computer and look at the Dashboard, and try to […]

Planting Strawberries

Last year a friend of mine gave me 81 strawberry plants. Fortunately, I have a big yard. I planted all 81 plants. Most of them lived. Some of them had […]

Monday in the Life of a Frustrated Retiree

I didn’t think that retirees hated Mondays, and maybe Monday is not the cause of my frustration, but it is Monday, and I am frustrated, so there must be a […]

Ruth, Bear Hunter

How many of you know a 71 year-old, female bear hunter? My friend, Ruth, from Wisconsin can do just about anything, but I would never have guessed that she hunted […]

Real Estate Salespeople

What do I know about real estate sales people? First of all I used to be one. I was 21, single, living in Portland, Oregon, and my dad was a […]

Wicked Weekend in Oz for History Gals

Some people got to family reunions. Some go to class reunions? Other people meet in different ways and click, and then start to do things together in a group. Do […]

National History Day – California – Tulare County a Huge Success

This was my first year in the past twelve years […]

Photo Problems at California Council for the Social Studies Conference

Calling all photographers. I’ve been away at a conference, so […]

Mr. Parks Kitty Follows Us Home

Yesterday morning my friend Sally and I walked as usual. When we rounded the corner we heard insistent mewing coming from a nearby tree. We ignored it, and walked to […]

A Few Minutes with Sandra Day O’Connor and other VIPs at the Civic Learning California Summit: Making Democracy Work

I would be a liar if I said this wasn’t […]

Happy Cows of California? That’s a Bunch of Bulls

I took my friend Jean home after our walk, and […]

Personal Stories

Spring Inspires Gardening Chores in California

My husband, like Manny, hibernates in the winter. As soon […]

Manny’s Almost Spring Bath

V thinks Manny should have his own site. I don’t know. I tried to get him his own email, but Google didn’t want to give it to him for two […]

A Little Foothill High School History

Sally Pace asked me to do a column of Foothill History for the Kiwanis magazine which is published quarterly. Our larger community consists of several small foothill towns ranging from […]

Manny the Sailor

In January Manny went to San Diego with the History Girls from all over California. Rumor has it that he got himself into some kind of trouble at the San […]

Flora Bella: Poster Dog

Hi everyone, Today I spent part of my day at my sister-in-laws. I took lots of toys, but my favorite is my new Bamboo drawing pad. Today I drew a […]

Sunday Post: Unforgettable

Unforgettable means never to be forgotten, remarkable in a way that cannot be forgotten such as place, events, or great memories. As much as I forget appointments, and names these […]

Piggles Again

Yesterday I got a comment from TOM, the other Marcia, and she told me I needed a tablet and a stylus to draw. Since she is an artist, and I […]

Kiwanians at the Farm Show

World Ag Expo comes to Tulare in February. Travelers fill up hotels (and homes) from all over the world. This was my experience two years ago. Sally Pace gave me […]

Personal Stories

A Truly Retired Day

V is home, so my alone-time retired day is over, but I thought I’d share what it was like to be truly retired today. While I waited for the guy […]

Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone

My husband just called. “Have you even been out to the dining room, yet?” It was 9:30 and I had been trying to get online, writing on my short story, […]

Photoshop Miracle

Today Cindy and I went to the World Ag Expo. This is THE hugest event I have ever attended, and I’ve been to TONS of exhibitions. This is an international […]

Sunday Post: On Going

I have an ongoing need to wait until someone else has posted their response to a challenge before I am ready to take the challenge. Do I have an ongoing […]

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