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For our second free book in March, we have the most delightful non-fiction book! UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPS by Jennifer S. Holland is full of wonderful stories about unusual friendships between animals. You’ll enjoy the gorgeous full-color photographs that illustrate stories, including: The Bobcat Kitten and the Fawn, The Sled Dog and the Polar Bear, The Salty…
Small Joys–Conversations
Today (Tuesday, August 11) I have the joy of visiting via Zoom a group of book folks — people who love books. I adore talking about reading and writing, and that’s more than a small joy in my life. Share your joyful conversation subjects–hobbies, family, the outdoors, the weather, music, dogs, cats, travels. What do…
Corsets & Lace: Haute Couture – The Victorian Age
My current novel-in-progress is entitled GILT. It’s set during the 1870s in New York City. I’m definitely a country girl (actually a backwoods girl), but the first time I visited New York (I was seventeen.), I fell in love with that huge, gritty (grittier then than now), glorious, amazing metropolis. In subsequent visits, both on…
Yes indeed, Carol! Hooray for melting snow. When we move sometime in the next month or so, I’ll be leaving my rock gardens, which will tug a bit at my heartstrings, but I’m looking forward to container gardening. I think that will be fun!
Yay for melting snow!! Spring has made it to the west coast in full force — tree buds bursting, lots of blossoms happening. Yes we have gardens but we live rurally so they’re pretty ‘rustic’ most of the time… ferns and salal abound. There was one vegetable bed in the only sunny area but we finally gave up on it and planted more shrubs and perennials in it except for a corner with herbs. For summer I tuck a few annuals in a bed by the front sidewalk, but otherwise only put tubs of them on our back deck.