Marsha Ingrao – Always Write – Page 34 – Having fun blogging with friends

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 […]

photography

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 […]

Hobbies

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 […]

Hobbies

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 […]

Blogging

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 […]

Hobbies

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 […]

Hobbies

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 […]

Travel

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 […]

Hobbies

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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

Hobbies

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 […]

Hobbies

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 […]

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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 […]

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