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Picture a Day #128 – Katie’s Veggie Garden
This week I am visiting my daughter Katie, who lives in a mountain valley in northern California, at an elevation of about two thousand feet. It has gotten quite warm during the day, but is still cold at night. She … Continue reading
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Tagged family, gardening, hobbies, nature, postaday
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Picture a Day #126 – Happy Birthday Cake
Sometimes adults need yummy birthday cakes. Before I went to visit my daughter for her birthday, I decided to make my Rocky Road Cake from last December again, but I used a different recipe, and gave it a twist. This … Continue reading
Picture a Day #121 – A Script, an Interview, and Almonds
Today is the last day of Script Frenzy, a marathon of script-writing sponsored by the Office of Letters and Light in Berkeley, California. It is a FUNdraiser and motivational event to get people writing. The goal is 100 pages in 30 … Continue reading
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Tagged almond orchard, California, family, nature, postaday, Script Frenzy, travel, writing
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Picture a Day # 94 – Sketching Down Memory Lane
Today I dug through my “portfolio drawer” to look at some of my older artwork. I knew I had a self-portrait in there somewhere. These sketches were done about twenty years ago. I look so young! They are the only … Continue reading
Picture a Day #85 – Morning Cereal with Something Extra
Morning cereal is a tradition in many households. I remember the corn flakes from my childhood. I also remember “hot cereal” for those times when you needed a little something extra. We never had hot oatmeal at my house. My … Continue reading
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Tagged exercise, family, food, morning, postaday, recipe
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Picture a Day #74 – Home Made Pizza!
If I had known I was going to post this today, I would have baked my pizza in a circle. For my Pi Day post check out my other blog! There are times when my husband and I like to make pizza … Continue reading
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Tagged family, food, home, pizza, postaday, recipe
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Picture a Day #66 – North Carolina Gray Fox
Technically this is a wild gray fox, a nursing mother living in the nearby woods. My brother-in-law was leaving food out for her, and she became somewhat used to him.
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Tagged family, fox, nature, North Carolina, postaday, travel
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Picture a Day #65 – Red Bird
I was so busy doing SPRING CLEANING before the next storm hit last night, and got so wrapped up in my other writing, that I forgot to post this! My first missed day of the “picture a day” series…I knew it was bound … Continue reading
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Tagged bird watching, cardinal, family, nature, North Carolina, postaday, travel
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Picture a Day # 57 – What Do You See?
When I showed my husband the face that I found in my abstract watercolor from yesterday’s post, he didn’t see what I saw. Instead of looking in the lower left corner at the blue-green face with a purple eye and mouth and yellow … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract, art, family, painting, perception, postaday, watercolor
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A Covey Ain’t Bad
I counted eighteen quail through my window at 7:30 this morning. They were scurrying around the driveways and yards across the street, and then a few of them leaked over to the sidewalk in front of our house. They were … Continue reading
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