Pictures Articles

Camera time and old friends

Back in early late May/early June a friend from high school (ok, so we've probably known each other since elementary school dance classes) came for a few days to visit. We entertained ourselves one morning by wandering around with our cameras -- love this waterfall!...

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I'd like this to be the full width of the post... alas that seems to be a problem if I use the Slideshare block. Seems ok if I use Slideshare shortcode to embed. Life of St....

Mailchimp rides again

I use Mailchimp on some other sites to get out updates from the blog function. Seems to work ok generating an email from an RSS feed. But, there are problems: the standard WordPress RSS doesn't send the featured images in the RSS feed. I like my images to show up in...

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I once studied to be an oceanographer… but alas I didn’t wind up working in that field. That doesn’t mean that the ocean is less fascinating to me. I just work with it differently.

 
Spring Flowers

Spring Flowers

A couple of years ago, John's aunt Louise sent some columbine seeds from the flowers in her Maine garden home to Alabama. I gave them to our neighbor, Larry -- and look what he did! Both Louise and Larry are working on Master Gardener standing. [nggallery id=3]

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A new look

I guess the new look reflects the fact that for the past few months, this has really been the baby blog. Really, I do have a life of my own. Really. But, a new little life sure does intrigue me. To see the changes. To see the many faces. To watch how much her daddy,...

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