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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It’s (almost) Wordless Wednesday. So, I am sharing some lovely autumnal images with you. What do you like best about autumn? How do you experience it where you live?
Isn’t autumn wonderful? So much color and such a beautiful harvest. I don’t even have the words to describe it. So, I will defer to someone else, who described it far better and far more vividly. I am always happy to defer to William Shakespeare, one of the greatest writers of all times. He shaped
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Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to describe what I do on Thursday or to share a day in the life of… me. I am writing this in real time, so, most likely you will not see this blog post until Friday morning. When I wake up in the morning, this is the
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Today’s prompt was to answer questions that you, my wonderful readers, ask over and over again. I have to admit that no one has asked questions, but several readers have expressed a fondness for Bearnacle Bear and his friends. So, today, I am going to tell you how the steam punk bear became mangled. One
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Today’s Ultimate Blogging Challenge prompt is to write about something that is fun. “What do I do in my personal or professional life that’s fun?” I enjoy anything that gives me a chance to escape the frustrations of daily life and helps me to reach beyond myself. One thing that I do is to participate
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It broke. The crystal ball, that is. I purchased a new one, but it… Nah, that’s all fake news. It didn’t happen. I don’t have a crystal ball. If I did, I would have purchased the basic model, with no extended warranty. You know, the kind that is offered to you via text message. “This
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The prompt for day two has to do with how I found my niche or my market. I’m not totally sure, but I can say that it was a long process to get to where I am. I’ve always loved storytelling and photography and artwork, and I think of that as my niche. But, before
On Wednesday, I was in downtown Buffalo at an art class. After the class, I had to go to an appointment, but I had enough time to walk through downtown Buffalo and take pictures. My plan was to photograph windows of really interesting older buildings, as well as pictures of flowers. I thought that it
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Behind the Buffalo History museum, there is a Japanese garden with a good number of cherry trees. Both the museum and the trees have an interesting history. The Buffalo History Museum was built in 1901. It was then called the New York State Building, and it was part of the 1901 Pan American Exposition, which
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