Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

Posted on Friday, July 19th, 2013

The theme for this week’s challenge has a lot of options.  How many different ways can you think about the word “fresh?”  Of course, there are tall glasses of lemonade, cool running streams, early asparagus, […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour

Posted on Friday, July 12th, 2013

Our Weekly Photo Challenge is all about light, but not just any light… a photographer’s ‘golden hour.’ I love the different light as we go through the day, but especially the very odd light in […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic

Posted on Friday, July 5th, 2013

This is my second Weekly Photo Challenge entry.  I hope you enjoy it.  I got some nice compliments on my first entry – Companionable.  It was great fun meeting new people here in the blogosphere.  […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Companionable

Posted on Sunday, June 30th, 2013

This is my first WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge.  I’m a bit nervous that I’m doing it right, so please bear with me.  I appreciate your patience.  Anyway, here goes…
Since I earn my living (most, that […]

Lunar Love – Unscientific Proof That The Moon Rules

Posted on Friday, June 21st, 2013

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Super Moon!

This weekend we are graced with the presence of a Super Moon, also known as a ‘perigee’ full moon.  The moon follows an elliptical orbit around the […]

Lessons From Mom – Things I Learned To Appreciate

Posted on Friday, May 10th, 2013

Time is the great eye opener.
I hear the clock tick, tick, tick away the days, months, years… and I realize as time passes how many things I appreciate.
Ordinary things.
Extraordinary things.
Big and small, there are moments […]

Drifting Along With The Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Posted on Thursday, April 11th, 2013

I can almost hear the wind whistling through this lonesome prairie… er, I mean blog.
You may have noticed a little lull in my blog.  Okay, a big lull.  All is well in Winker-World, but I […]

Blue Mountain eCards And More – A Pleasant Surprise For This Luddite

Posted on Monday, March 11th, 2013

I guess I’d have to say I’m sort of a hold-out when it comes to accepting certain change, like technology, for instance.  The word the kids are using nowadays is ‘Luddite.’  You’ll recognize a Luddite […]

Let The Word Be Your Guide – New Year, New Word

Posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

It’s never too late to think about a New Year’s Resolution, is it? Well, it’s not that I haven’t been thinking about it. My daughter, Nicole Dean, issued the challenge back in January to… well, […]

The Dog Ate My Homework, And Other Excuses

Posted on Sunday, March 3rd, 2013

Last week I joined a challenge – a blogging challenge – started by Tiffany Dow. I received my nudge to join the challenge by  Patti Stafford and it looks like I could use another nudge… […]