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2104 Accomplishments
Here are some highlights from last year: My Favorite Posts Some of my favorite posts from 2014 were: A Gallery of My Daughter Growing Up – this was for a weekly photo challenge on endurance, of which I...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
In 2012, the Richmond Virginia Art Community joined with national street artists to create murals on the flood walls along the James River Canal (media coverage is here and here). Because it was on...
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What Is Orange?
So what is orange? Orange is warmth and sunlight, whether on my face or basking in a smile from my daughter. My daughter in downtown Bar Harbor, Maine. Orange is the glory of flowers, showing off their...
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The Joy of Common Work
Visitors Center at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens, Richmond, Virginia . . . Do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that duties and daily bread are the...
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Walls of Creativity, Part 1
During a recent visit to the Virginia Museum of Fine Art (VMFA), I came across an exhibit of 20th and 21st Century Art. Although I’m often not a fan of what is in these galleries, they changed since...
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A Late Winter Walk
Path at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens, Richmond, Virginia The world is but a canvas to the imagination. – Henry David Thoreau A few days before the official start of spring, I took a walk at one...
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Time For A New Story
Isn’t my husband just handsome? Even if he is a bit impatient with me taking his picture. As May drew to a close, it became apparent to me that I needed to tell myself a new story. I need a story that...
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Life Goes On
View at Short Pump Mall, Richmond, Virginia Gretchen Rubin has often said: The days are long, but the years are short. I realized that part of why I’m not blogging is that I’ve been busy with so many...
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Sunflowers In Virginia
“I don’t think there’s anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that’s because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows...
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Tourist in my State – Orange, Virginia
Along the Train TracksOrange, Virginia. It’s so easy to be a tourist in my own state – there are interesting things everywhere! The town in Orange, Virginia has some lovely brickwork next to the...
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