Is winter a season? Or a state of being? Does the coldness last forever? How do you bring warmth to winter, when, outside, everything looks white and barren and lonely. Fortunately, there are ways to add color to the season. With color, there is warmth. With imagination, there is color. Therefore, imagination is the tool […]

Early in January, I posted that I intended to crochet one square a day for a year! (link to “The 365-day crochet project). And that worked, until I actually had thirty completed squares and it was time to start piecing together the afghan and crocheting the border. So I’ve had to adjust and include time

Today, I went for a walk along the river. It wasn’t a warm day but it wasn’t frightening and windy, like it was on Wednesday. So it was time to get out of the house and experience the Niagara River. All right. I actually know that the Niagara River isn’t a river. It’s a strait that

Thursday was a fun and adventurous day, definitely worthy of documenting. I started the day by doing the finishing touches on a photo display for my art exhibit at the Grand Island Memorial Library this month. The trees were still coveredwith ice after Wednesday’sice storm. Early in the afternoon, Kathy, an artist who has had two

Yesterday morning, I looked outside and saw that my world had been transformed into a winter magicland.  The glittery white snow was clinging to tree branches and to roofs. The sky was as white as the snow, and the upper tree branches, naked and stark, pointed like outstretched fingers toward it. My world slept, covered

On November 1st, I started writing a gratitude post a day. The idea was to get myself ready for Thanksgiving. At the end of November, I didn’t really want to stop so I continued. There have been a few days that I’ve forgotten to write a gratitude post, but that’s OK. I can be thankful

I just finished an online class that was taught by photographer Annie Liebovitz. She really opened up my eyes to seeing photography and the world in different ways.  Goody Claus wants to makeall dreams come true, butmy dream of footlightsand and life on the stagedid not happen. Photography was never my passion. Once, long ago,

Once I got the pictures on the computer, I decided to play with the settings. I wanted some of the pictures to be more about lights and darks and less about color. This one is more sepia than black and white. a black and white version. Yesterday, I went to a party at Mary Lee’s

It had been a while since I’d visited President Mighty Mouth in the White House. Two years, to be exact. My project of interviewing the President ended after the Kellyannebot attempted to exterminate me in a very Dalek-esque fashion. In fact, the Kellyannebot WAS a Dalek. I had to leave the Pillars of Power before

One of the newer attractions in Grand Island is the Welcome Center. It was opened in August of this year. It has all sorts of great features, which include a charging stations for people who have electric cars. There’s a store, where local products are sold, as well as some hot foods. The products include