When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it’s a good time to start painting. ~James Rosenquist I know. I know. He’s talking about a different kind of painting. But that wasn’t the kind of painting I was doing. I’m painting my bathroom. Not exactly the most artistic thing. Truth is, about the only artistic painting I ever did …
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. ~Norman Cousins I’ve told you before how much I owe to libraries in helping to form me into a writer of books. Without my regular trips to the library when I was a kid, I doubt I would have found as much …
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. I love it when I can share some good news about one of my books with you. You may remember that I told you These Healing Hills was a finalist for the Faith, Hope and Love Women’s Fiction Book. Well, These Healing Hills won!! …
Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it’s different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa. ~Andy Warhol And so the last mystery is revealed for this session of my Mystery Photo Game. I do hope you …
“I love to see the sunshine on the wings of the Dragonflies… there is magic in it.” ~Ama H. Vanniarachchy And so we are down to our last mystery photo for this Mystery Photo Game. We’ll play again but I have to have time to gather up some more mysterious photos. You people are sometimes hard to trick with my …
If it can’t be fried in bacon grease, it ain’t worth cooking, let alone eating. ~ Southern proverb Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~ Doug Larson I looked for some quotes about bacon and found two I couldn’t resist to go with my Wednesday mystery photo. Yes, quite a …
I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an ‘errie’ in it! ~Jordin Sparks I’m late to the mystery photo game tonight because the kids came out to go blackberry picking tonight. It’s been a very disappointing blackberry season. After the abundance of wild raspberries, I really thought the blackberries would be just as good or better. I …
“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods” – Christopher Hitchens Thanks to all …
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. ~R. Buckminster Fuller Okay, so my first picture wasn’t quite as mysterious as I had hoped. A lot of you got it right off. Yes, the spots on a butterfly wing. I do appreciate those of you who used a little more imagination and saw …
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ~Elizabeth Bowen Are you ready for a little fun? So how about a new mystery photo game? I’ve been looking at everything with narrowed eyes this week while wondering if I could make this or that look mysterious. Even took a picture of Frankie’s paw today. Enlarged the picture, cropped it, …