What of great expectations...

I am not a huge fan of Charles Dickens.  More to the point, I have disliked his work immensely.  Pardon me if that sounds too blunt, but that's the truth of it... until now. I recently watched the new PBS production of 'Great Expectations'...

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Texture Tuesday...perfectly perforated

Dunno how I got on this garden tool kick all of a sudden...in my previous post you had to read all about my hori hori obsession and now this... a portrait of my tried and truest, most favored and special watering can ever. She's tough 'cause she's...

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Better than 1,000 thread count Egyptian cotton...

just a tad scratchier (some might say unbearably scratchy) and only available in a limited choice of colors... like beige. Must be purchased by the bale and applied with a pitchfork... but  the new sheets on these beds couldn't be finer! I...

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Truth about tripods...

Aimless Love This morning as I walked along the lakeshore, I fell in love with a wren and later in the day with a mouse the cat had dropped under the dining room table. In the shadows of an autumn evening, I fell for a seamstress still at her machine in the...

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My springtime salmagundi...

Over the weekend, on & off, I muddled around in an attempt to put a new post together. But it was useless ... a little of this, a little of that, nothing was gelling ... you know how that is. And now it's Monday and I still have no...

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Texture Tuesday...the little things

Enjoy the little things,for one dayyou may look back and realizethey were the big things. ~  Robert Brault  ~ : : : Linking up again with Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday crowd...have a wander over there and see some of the amazing work that's being...

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Suspended...

...tonight's moon,on its lofty perch within the branches of the old fir...or so it seemed. That owl...just a figment of my imagination.I like to think of them out there...flying soundlessly, unseen,doing what owls do when the moon is full. Spring seems to have...

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Soft...

...it's time for another Texture Tuesday photo and the challenge this weekis the 'oh so SOFT edition.' This is Isla dawg, watching raindrops.  Or at least, that's what I think she was doing.She's sitting on the very edge of a small dock about four feet...

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I am the daughter of an April fool...

Genealogy is a trickster and a grand informant.  My earliest traceable ancestor on my father's sideimmigrated to America from England to escape religious persecution.He was a Methodist minister who settled in Woburn, MA.  The year was 1608. Following...

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