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Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

Delicate suggests many diverse meanings. Curiously, now and again what seems delicate may actually be quite strong, and conversely, when something appears heavy, mechanical, sturdy or awkward may have delicate […]

Christmas Sweater

When my first husband, Mark, went to Bible College, and worked, and worked some more, I worked at the college as a secretary, and had such fun with the other […]

Christmas Crafting

Before I begin I must express my extreme sorrow over what has happened in the school in Connecticut and publicly share my sympathies to all the families. Words cannot express […]

SUNDAY POST : Concept

Concept is hard to visualize. It can be anything and nothing all at the same time. Without concepts, we can work, and play, but we can’t do it sustainably effectively […]

You’re Invited to Renee’s Online Birthday Party

Featured Blog Who’s Renee? I started following Renee and […]

Ye Olde Christmas Greeting

Dearest Friends Near and Far, * […]

Why Fly Through Cyberspace With a Vanity Blog?

There are basically only two things one can do with […]

Travel Theme: Circles

Definition: A circle is the locus of all points equidistant from a central point. Ailsa of Where’s My Backpack, dreamed up a theme that made my mind go in circles trying to […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

A dear friend gave me wool yarn from Australia to make a warm sweater as a departure gift from Colorado Springs. It was summer, and even in Colorado we weren’t […]

Walnuts Change Clothes for the Winter

I hated walnuts until I moved to Tulare County. We couldn’t have been relocated into a better place than when my first husband and I moved here August 1, 1985, […]

Book Review: Entertaining an Elephant

Thank you and congratulations to Larry Otter, the 30th “LIKE” on my new Facebook page, GOLD STAR! Thanks to the many others that also pressed “LIKE” Many of you are teachers, […]

The End of Fall

Tulare County, approximately the size of Connecticut, has two climates. One is mountainous – the Sierra Nevada, home of the Sequoia National Park. The other, home of over 400,000 cows, […]

Personal Stories

The Answer Is…

We didn’t have to wait until Friday. Tonia Hurst, a California gal, picked up on this little tendril right away. Congratulations Tonia!!! Gold Star Tonia Hurst!! Now, since you have been such […]

Book Review: The Everything Theory

Dianne Gray became my blogger friend four months and three weeks ago now, and we have rallied blogger chit-chat back and forth between our blogs. As I read her blog […]

Guess What This Is

Every once in a while you come across things that are just too cool not to photograph. So I offer this picture to you. What in the world is it? […]

Originally posted on Sue Ann's Balcony:
Many adolescent boys are disengaged and unmotivated at school, and their results reflect this. Boys are not hard-wired to sit at a desk…

Kids at Avila Barn

Avila Barn used to be just a summer place to visit, but now it’s open all year long. I’ve been practicing taking people pictures recently. I wanted to test my […]

Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

As I reflect on my blogging experiment this first day of December, I realize that it has gone from experiment to addictive hobby. I am thankful to all of you […]

A Wig and a Promise

Earlier this week I was commenting back and forth with Autty Jade about the wig she is wearing in her new grivitar picture. One thing led to another, and I […]

Originally posted on A Mixed Bag:
I was asked a few days ago if I could give a tutorial on shutter speeds and filters. Unfortunately, I don’t know enough about…

Sightseeing in Solvang, CA

Although Danes from the midwest established Solvang, meaning sunny fields, in 1911, it did not incorporate until 1985. I visited it for the first time ten years later as one […]

Bob Jones Trail

Across the street cars packed into the tiny parking lot down the street from Bob Jones Trail. Children, bikes, old people, skaters, dogs, young parents with baby strollers all piled […]

Sunday Post: Natural Resources

I’ve been hoping for a challenge in which I could post these photos of wind machines. Thanks Jake. Air is probably our most precious and abused natural resource in California […]

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Orange

Have you figured out how to read everybody’s blogs when you get the emails? I haven’t. They pile up, and then when I have time I start through them. I […]

Are You There Blog? It’s Me, Writer.

Kristen Lamb, author of Are You There Blog? It’s Me, Writer., writes non-fiction in a folksy, easy to understand style. Read like good fiction, the pages of this how-to book […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful

This week’s photo challenge by WordPress, Thankful , conjures up pictures of food, family, friends, and material objects. Beyond our immediate circle of influence and interaction, our country, and the peace, […]

Sunday Post: Architecture

If you haven’t been to http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/sunday-post-architecture/#comments , and you like photography, and you need ideas for a short posts, Jake is your guy. I love this because even as amateur […]

Magnified Fall in the Foothills

Happy Thanksgiving!!! It’s always good to be home, even though there are no cultural places to visit nearby, or Diners and Dives restaurants. There’s also little rain, traffic, or noise […]

Pike Place Market

Traveling to conferences often allows attendees the opportunity to explore new places. National Council for the Social Studies moves their conference each year to a different part of the country […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

We found this at the Pike’s Street Market in Seattle, which is marvelous, by the way. I had never seen one, so I wondered if some of you green connoisseurs might […]

Living Elegantly in Palm Desert

The contrast between where I was this past week-end and where I was the week-end before reassured me about the flexibility of human-kind. From Friday through Monday (It didn’t rain […]

Seattle Warwick Hotel

From this downtown Seattle Warwick Hotel handicapped room, I was not hampered from taking a few pictures from the window from my 9th floor room. I like this picture because […]

Mowing the Cotton Field

When the mountain stopped me and asked me to take a picture of it, I had no idea that right across the street something was begging me even more to […]

Palm Desert Art Festival

Most of the time I don’t actually DO anything. I go places and look at stuff, and I listen to people, and I talk, both verbally and in writing. Since […]

Sunday Post: Surroundings

This challenge seems particularly vague to me. Everything surrounds everything. Nothing exists in a vacuum except the dirt and dog hairs from my carpet. We can choose to surround ourselves […]

Internet Purgatory Solutions

I’m beginning to feel jinxed as I struggle technologically to blog. First I had my problems just learning the ropes, then I started jumping unannounced and uninvited into people’s spam […]

Under the Grapevine

Grapevine is a place, a town at the southern tip of the San Joaquin Valley. I learned when I first moved here that when you start to cross over Tejon Pass […]

Fall in the Foothills

Come white misty fog Dusting the sun-brushed hilltops Polishing the air. You know fall has finally arrived when the fog greets you in the mornings. This picture looks fake, but […]

Internet Purgatory

Technology frustrates me. I knew when it took 5 hours to write and upload a post with 11 pictures, that I was in trouble. So we called Wild Blue, our […]

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. […]

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 […]

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, […]

Trackbacks, Pings

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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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