Today’s prompt is to describe where I would like the blog to be in 90 days… In 90 day, my part of the world will not be green. So, I will need to add the color by creating art, which includes drawing, painting, and collage. My goal during those 90 days is to post once
Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to give advice to my teenaged self. My advice consists of just three words: you are enough. You do not have to be better than anyone else, and you are absolutely not worse than anyone else. You are enough just as you are. Your imagination is enough.
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Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is all about conversations with blog readers on my porch. Once again, I’ve decided to interpret this… loosely. First of all, we need beverages, so we will have coffee or tea or apple cider. Then, we need refreshments. I’m going to order cookies from Lia’s Sunshine Bakery, as
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and why I am not a fan… The prompt for October 21st from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to write about this year’s election. I am supposed to talk about candidates and what I think about their campaigning. Normally, I would say something about why attack ads and negative campaigning are a bad idea because
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by plein air artists in western new york and southern ontario Niagara Falls is stunning year round. Above is a photograph of the Falls in the winter, when the water is covered in ice and snow. It’s absolutely amazing. What’s also absolutely amazing are some of the paintings of Niagara Falls. These artists have no
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In the past four months or so, I have discovered the joy of collage. It’s a great way to preserve images without having stacks of magazines, brochures, etc., taking up space in your home. The fun of collage is combining similar images to create a theme or somewhat different images to tell a story. It
When I was fifteen years old, I decided that I had no talent for art. Which was actually very late for a kid to make that decision. Generally, kids see the gap between what they are doing and what they feel they should be doing between the ages of nine and eleven. According to an
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Yesterday was the second day of a printmaking workshop that I attended at Starlight Studio and Art Gallery. This studio, located in downtown Buffalo, is designed for adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. It’s a very cheerful looking studio, with brightly colored images decorating the walls. The people who come to the studio daily produce
The last prompt for the july Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to write a recap of the experience. So, here goes. And so…. we approach the end of the July 2026 version of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. At midnight, I will post my monthly photograph of rabbits on Facebook because it’s good luck for the start
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Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to answer a question. People have been asking what’s going to happen next in the story of the steampunk bear so… here you go… part five of the story… The ravens, carrying the steampunk bear and the mouse, landed on the shores of the seventh mountain. They
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