February 2021

Today’s blog post is all about Alice’s adventure on February 26th, 2021. I was going to write and post this yesterday, but discovered that exhaustion took over and my brain wasn’t going there.  Yesterday morning, I could already sense that the day was going to be challenging. My head was achey and I felt the […]

  This is actually my second blog post of the day! It must be some sort of record for me. I don’t know if blog posting is a contest or not. Uh, but I digress.  Anyway… back on topic. Which is really cool blogs. So, without further ado, I will introduce the cool blogs for

  So….. I was going to post the winner of the name the bear contest on February 17th, but time has this wonderful or maybe awful way of escaping from me. Well, so it’s February 25th. The bear was making a speech about STILL not having a name. “That’s not nice,” said the Anonymous Bear.

 It’s #wordlessWednesday! Here is a collection of pictures that I took today at Kelly’s Country Store in Grand Island, New York, where the Easter rooms are open. Enjoy!

 Today’s blogging prompt was to make a list. Various ideas were suggested, and one of them was “ten random things about me.” So here goes. Ten random things about Alice, in no particular order! –Alice loves sunflowers. Madly. She has painted portraits of many sunflowers and she has all sorts of stuff with a sunflower

 Today’s post is all about trouble shooting your artistic creation when you think that a mistake that you’ve made dooms your painting to a tragic future in a trash receptacle. All right, I know that I could have just said “garbage can.” But I really like the word “receptacle.” It sounds like it’s ready to

  Today’s blogging prompt is to compare two things that seem to be dissimilar but are actually alike. The two things that I have chosen to compare are keys and books, as in how books are like keys. Keys are wondrous things that open doors. When you open the door, you can find yourself in

 Life is good… but it could be a whole lot better.  Don’t get me wrong. I am so thankful to be alive and to be healthy. Alive and healthy is probably as good as it gets. I am in the second month of a sixty-day fitness challenge. I’m feeling stronger and a little more co-ordinated.

 About a week ago, I wrote about joining a FaceBook group that is dedicated to self portraits. You can post only once a week with the self portrait that you made that week. I’ve actually managed to do one self portrait per week. As I write, my fourth self-portrait is almost done. So, today’s blogging

 A sense of wonder and enchantment I remember waking up one morning to a set of miniature books that had quietly been placed on my dresser. At the age of eight, I was a sound sleeper, so I didn’t wake when someone snuck in my room and placed those books. No doubt the someones were