Marsha Ingrao

When You’re Hot, You’re Hot

When you’re hot, you’re cool! Stretching it, warming up. You’re hot! Really hot stuff! You know? Yeah, you can feel it! But maybe you’re not hot yet, you stretch, […]

Photo Challenges

Mannequin Madness – Would You Wear This?

I’m usually tempted to buy something new in Hawaii when […]

Health

Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight or Weightlessness

What an appropriate topic for this week’s Photo Challenge. I don’t […]

Hobbies

Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Wright’s Watertight File Cabinet

Generally file cabinets wouldn’t warrant a blog post unless you […]

Photo Challenges

The Blur of Travel

We looked forward to our vacation in Sedona for weeks, and we’ve already been home for two days. What happened? Sights seemed clear enough when we were there. We stopped at a […]

Photo Challenges

Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds

Rule of thirds challenges me unless I have a 9 grid overlaying the photo or viewfinder. Since I’ve never seen a viewfinder like that, I confess that these shots became […]

Photo Challenges

WP Photo Challenge: Yellow

Yellow seems to creep into every picture even when I don’t focus on it. I looked for a folder that might show a lot of yellow where one might not […]

Photo Challenges

Twinkle

The six-million-dollar photo entitled “Phantom” that sold recently captured the perfect twinkle of light and processed it beautifully. These are my $1.00 twinkles taken with my iPhone in 2013 at […]

Hobbies

Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge

For being such a 100% gorgeous day, Saturday, November 29th turned oddball early on. First of all I called my friend’s dad, Clarence. I know his name is Leonard. I only […]

Hobbies

Black and White Challenge: Glass

I live much of my life behind glass. My 2006 Prius has over 215,000 miles, my husband’s 2004 truck has nearly 200,000 miles, and his “new” car, a 2010 Prius […]

Photo Challenges

Angular: the Daily Post Photo Challenge

I examined 12 posts before I wrote this. I don’t usually do that, but I needed inspiration. I smiled at this favorite . You have to look past the obvious angle to see […]

Blogging

An Odd San Francisco Hotel Room

It is odd to make a spur of the moment decision to go to San Francisco for the night on the way home from Redding instead of Sacramento, but I […]

Photo Challenges

WP Photo Challenge: Refracted Light

The underground gardens in Fresno gives shows off refracting to the maximum. This hand dug castle took years to create, and served it owner as a garden as well as […]

Photo Challenges

WP Photo Challenge: Nighttime

Nighttime in St. Louis last November sparkled with Christmas lights. We were on the snow route, but someone forgot the snow. They didn’t forget the cold. Cheryl and I both […]

Photo Challenges

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 […]

Photo Challenges

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 […]

Photo Challenges

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

The Accidental Vacation: Chapter Seven

Have you ever had car trouble that caused you to delay your trip home? Vince and Marsha spent several days enjoying an accidental vacation.

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 […]

Photo Challenges

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 […]

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