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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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…
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 […]
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 […]
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…
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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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 […]