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Fanciful Friday: Around Home
I don’t have an elaborate or lengthy post for this Fanciful Friday. Maybe the hot weather has affected my energy and creativity this week. Perhaps you’ll appreciate the simplicity of this post instead. Below are a few photos I’ve made around the house this week. Starting from the upper left: flowering plants in front of…
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Way Back: 2006-Biltmore Estate
Twenty years ago, my daughter Amberle, Bonnie, and I visited the Biltmore Estate Gardens in Asheville, North Carolina. I used a point-and-shoot Canon Powershot SD300, according to the file metadata, though I don’t remember much about that camera; I’m fairly certain the camera on my phone today is better than the SD300. However, as they…
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‘Orange’ We Glad For Rain
“You know you have a problem on your hands when you ask someone how to spell “orange” and they ask, “The color or the fruit?”― Craig D. Lounsbrough Between a couple of rain showers this past weekend, I took a moment to make a few photos of the flowers in a pot out front of…
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She Is The Gardener
“When we create a garden, no matter how small or where it is in the world, we enrich the world as a whole.”― Bhuwan Thapaliya There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles over our backyard in the early morning. The light comes in low and golden, the air still cool, or at least as cool…
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Floral Woman Art
“The most stunning flowers grew where nobody thought to plant them. So did she. She bloomed not because conditions were perfect but because she refused to stay a seed.” – unknown If you search for “floral woman art,” you will discover various styles and art pieces available for display and purchase. Women have developed a…
