Marsha Ingrao

WordPress Photo Challenge: Adventure

You probably heard your grandparents say, “Every day just waking up is an adventure.” It’s true. Each day is what we make it, and adventure arrives in ordinary packages. So […]

Photo Challenges

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue

Puppy Girl dialogued very clearly with Vince. He worked on the computer, when clearly he could have chosen to pet her tummy. So she grabs his hand and pulls. It’s […]

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WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture in Edna Valley

Vince and I discovered tons of textures in this gem […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers

A container holds something. A car holds people. Therefore a car is a container. Actually, the museum building is also a container. It contained mock buildings, which contained relics. Container […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Room

This is the perfect challenge to tell you about the wonderful interesting room I had in San Francisco a couple of months ago. I wanted to support these people because […]

Book Reviews

Book Review: Co-Operative Dreams A History of the Kaweah Colony by Jay O’Connell

If you’ve never seen a tree so wide you can drive […]

Hobbies

WordPress Photo Challenge: Letters

The Pennsylvania Railroad Museum didn’t bother to post their rules in any language but English. That may have been their downfall. Sometimes the letters aren’t right when you take a […]

Hobbies

Blurbs for Manny’s Picture Book

I am on my fifth draft of the picture book I wrote about Manny last week. Can I Sleep Over at Justin’s Tonight? 499 words This week we had to […]

Personal Stories

“What Did You Do Today?”

Don’t you hate it when your mate comes home from a hard day at work, or your boss comes up to you and says those words? Moms do this to […]

Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: Windows in Chicago

I’ve needed a place to post some of these wonderful pictures I took in Chicago. I bet they are seeing different scenery out of them than Randy and I did […]

Travel

How to Recognize a Great Museum

When I was a kid, it seemed like museums stored old stuff that only grandparents recognized. Now museums come in all shapes and sizes in every community. Representing agricultural Tulare […]

Personal Stories

Manny Here

Dear Friends, I am writing for Mom this morning cause she has her nose in her book all the time. I’ve been making some resolutions as I sit here on […]

Hobbies

Poppe, the Hypnotic Clown of Bruges

by Manny Ingrao I am NOT afraid of clowns, but look into his eyes. Scary, huh? I was really brave when this clown asked for volunteers. Justin didn’t want to […]

Travel

Manny’s a Whale Watcher

Here comes one now. “They’re right here, Mom. See them swimming. And here we are.” “Unfortunately, Manny you’re just looking at the sign. You have to look at the ocean […]

Hobbies

Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers

Layers conjures all kinds of images for me. As a gal from the Midwest, I learned to dress in layers, but layers envelops us at even more basic levels than […]

Hobbies

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You

I love most colors. My house and clothes closet swell with many colors that reflect my love of variety and life. I love contrast. Blue might be my favorite hue […]

Travel

Accidental Vacation Chapter Four

Chapter Four “The car rental agency in Crescent City, CA had one car. We have water, and we have food,” Vince stated abnormally joyfully. He flashed his wife a boyish […]

Travel

Accidental Vacation Chapter Three

Chapter Three Finally Camping The next morning Marsha and Puppy Girl checked out ATV prices at the log cabin store next to the campground. For only $45 an hour she and […]

Travel

The Accidental Vacation

Chapter One Just the Right Trailer Vince had been looking online for months after he sold the family trailer at the coast for something more portable to replace it. Two […]

Photo Challenges

Wednesday Challenge: Focus

Focus. This week’s challenge is inspired by Matthew George’s post on focus, in which he introduced us to the basics of depth of field and aperture. He explained what an image with […]

Personal Stories

Monday: Ask Marsha: Making Italian Sauce

Vince’s Dad was the sauce maker in the family. Every Sunday he made sauce. We would go to visit, and Dad would always send us plenty of sauce home with […]

Travel

Adventures and Non-Adventures of Marsha and Manny

What I really mean by that is that Manny is […]

Hobbies

Ask Marsha: The Ins and Outs of Guest Blogging

Before I get to guest blogging, let me make a […]

Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow

Wednesday is two days before the WordPress challenge changes, so I’d better get busy. Nobody wants to go to the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame in Davis, California and leave the prize […]

Travel

Monday: Ask Marsha: Folks On Yahoo Want To Know

I don’t spend a lot of time in Yahoo, but […]

Travel

Thursday: News From Manny

Dear Mom, Ralph’s letting me use his computer. He has Dragon, so I’m just talking. Ralph checks my spelling, too. Are you proud of me? I have some new friends […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour

The morning golden hours are the hours I’d rather still be in bed. My husband sometimes gets up and snaps a picture or two. Some of my favorite pictures were […]

Travel

Adventures of Manny: Priority-First Class Travel to Spain

Manny’s Guest Blogger IS Manny. Apologies to spammers who don’t […]

Hobbies

Ask Marsha: Easy Tips to Improve Photos

You all know that I took an online lesson with Leanne Cole. You can too, by the way. She gave me some composition tips as well as some Photoshop tips […]

Travel

Relaxing: …. In Photoshop?

How could Photoshop be relaxing? Well, for one thing it’s not 110 in my house! That’s helpful because it is about that outside. I walked and swam this morning, but […]

Hobbies

Manny Goes to Spain – An Interview with Manny

Many of our readers know Manny as my lovable little […]

Personal Stories

Weekly Photo Challenge – The world through your eyes

For the most part I see things through rose-colored glasses, […]

Personal Stories

Relaxing – Organizing and Cleaning the Junk Room

Everyone has a little clutter. Today is cleaning day. Working […]

Hobbies

Manny and Marsha at the Botanical Gardens in Kauai, HI

The air dripped that day, but not with rain. The […]

Photo Challenges

Challenge Me: Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

I had curves growing up, my knees and my elbows! Most everything else about me is straight. EXCEPT that I have astigmatisms in both eyes, and I can’t draw straight […]

Hobbies

Travel Theme: Costumes

Am I too late to post a quick post about costumes? Alisa’s travel theme for last week fits a good many pictures I have. In my collection I have pictures of […]

Hobbies

Monk Seal at Poipu Beach

We spent only a week in Kauai, HI, but I have way more than a week’s worth of posts – even though they are not written yet. I’ll post this […]

Hobbies

Sunday Post: Perspective: Best Luau Ever

Thank you Jake for this challenge to help me share my perspective of our luau experiences. To learn how to enter your own posts about perspectives, visit Jake’s Sunday Post. […]

Hobbies

Manny Goes to Grove Cafe in Kauai, HI

We, V, C, M and I, just got back from a wonderful vacation in Kauai, HI. Manny’s favorite place in all of Kauai was a famous restaurant in the little […]

Personal Stories

Investing Before and During Retirement

Today I thought I would write about investing for retirement. I didn’t invest by doing anything difficult or brilliant, but I am pleased with my outcome at this point. When […]

Photo Challenges

Wild Weekly Photo Challenge: #32 The Beach

Visited by thousands of readers in more than 155 countries around the world, LetsBeWild.com is all about getting people outside – the great outdoors is where it’s at when it […]

Personal Stories

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

Have you ever wanted to escape from your past? From the faults and character qualities of your family that you didn’t like or admire? We always sort of disowned my […]

Hobbies

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 […]

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Where to Find Color for a Photo Challenge Like an Expert

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

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