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“Imagination thrives on mystery”―Patrick Harpur Well, this had been an extra fun Mystery Photo Game, but tonight we come down to our last mystery photo for this time. I’ve strained my brain enough coming up with five mystery photos. And I didn’t do too bad with the first ones. I managed to get some tricky ones in there for some …
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” ―Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court The same as every time I post this game, I am having a great time and enjoying all your guesses. Probably a little better because you aren’t all guessing the same thing. That means not all of you …
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. ~Albert Einstein You all came through once more and exercised your imaginations with some wonderful visions of well, imagination. After my granddaughter looked at the last mystery picture and knew in five seconds what it was, I thought maybe some of you would do the same. To make you feel …
“There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.” ~H.L. Mencken That’s not to say that a mystery picture in my Mystery Picture Game is a problem. It’s not. It’s just some imagination exercise. Thank all of you who did some of that imagination exercising. And then I forgot to post the “solution” or …
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ~Elizabeth Bowen Are you ready for a new Mystery Photo Game? I know. I’ve been promising one for a while, but I had that book to finish and the new book, The Pursuit of Elena Bradford, just released to try to talk up to all the readers I know or hope to …
Graham Springs in the first half of the 1800s was considered the “Saratoga of the west.” When I was writing my story, The Pursuite of Elena Bradford, set at Graham Springs, I kept wanting to say the Saratoga of the South. But at the time Kentucky was a western state in the USA. California didn’t become a state until 1850, …
I was up until the wee hours of morning trying to get rid of all the unnecessary words in my work in progress so I could send it off to my editor today. I hit the send button an hour ago. Well, I did sleep in between giving up on making the manuscript perfect and hitting that send button. It’s …
When I have a new release, I’m always surprised by readers who go the extra mile to let me know they’ve read my book. I appreciate when they write a review and post it online somewhere or many somewheres. This time I’ve had a few make graphics with pictures they’ve gleaned from the internet (I suppose) but that match what …
Happy Mother’s Day to all of you mothers out there and to all of you who had a mama. I’ll wager that gets you all. Except maybe for Wes in my Hollyhill books. If you read those books, Scent of Lilacs, Orchard of Hope, Summer of Joy, you might remember how he always claimed to be from Jupiter and loved …
“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” —Henry Ford I like Henry Ford’s quote. We are beat before we start if we think we can’t do something. But if we are the Little Engine that Could and keep saying “I think I can,” then we have a better chance of …