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Birds and More Mysteries to Ponder
He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace. ~Albert Einstein Don’t you just love nature? Love going outside to see what you...
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Blackberries and Yet Another Mystery Photo
“What we could consider magic, may just be science that we don’t understand yet.” ― Patricia Robin Woodruff, Strange Tales of Floyd County, VA Thank you all for playing my Mystery Photo Game. Some of...
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A Nutty Mystery & More
“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” ~David Mamet Well, I’ve had my success in the mystery photo game this time. Now if you all get the last two right, it will be fine...
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One Last Mystery Photo to Guess
“The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.” ~Robert Flacon Scott Okay so Sunday’s mystery photo wasn’t a great mystery. A lot of you knew what it was. I guess the pecan mystery picture was...
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Thanks for Making The Mystery Game Fun
What’s more fun that a Mystery Photo Game? I guess it’s having two grandsons come spend a couple of nights at Grandma’s house. But being on grandma duty and playing all sorts of games from Jenga to...
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Volunteers are the Best Winners
A couple of weeks ago I sent out a newsletter to celebrate the release of my novel An Appalachian Summer. I hope if you got the newsletter, you enjoyed reading it. If you didn’t get it, you can sign...
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Volunteers Make a Difference in Children’s Lives
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~John F. Kennedy In response to my recent newsletter in which I asked if any of the readers had at some time in their life worked as...
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The Amazing Gift of Butterflies
“Butterflies are self propelled flowers.” ― Robert A. Heinlein Do you love seeing butterflies in the summertime? I do. I’m always ready to yank out my phone and try to get it fired up and to the right...
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1st Sunday Devotional – Spiders and Webs
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift. ~Albert Einstein I enjoy taking nature pictures and sharing them on social media. Something shared is always more fun and I’m like a...
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Echoes of a Mountain Past
A day late and a dollar short. I’m sure you’ve heard that phrase often. Maybe you even said it about something or other or someone or other. I’m usually the one that’s a little late and a dollar...
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Celebrating National Book Lovers Day
Bibliophile – a person who has a great appreciation for or collects books. Are you a bibliophile? I guess I could say I am since I do love books and have collected a few over the years. Have even...
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More Love for Books and Reading
Photo by Klim Sergeev on Unsplash I don’t think I ever finished a book by reading with a flashlight under a cover, but I might have if I’d had a flashlight with batteries that lasted. When I was a kid,...
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The Amazing World of Fish
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~Albert Einstein A couple of weeks ago I went with my son’s...
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Gardening – An Instrument of Grace
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero It’s green bean time in our garden. I grow stick beans. Those are beans that you have to supply something for...
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Writing the Book that Wants to Be Written
Madeleine L’Engle You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. ~Madeleine L’Engle Have you read books by...
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Celebrating National Dog Day
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.” ~Dean Koontz Did you know it was National Dog Day? Maybe a better question is did you even know there was a National Dog...
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A Gift of Love
(I promised to share this story sometime and it seemed the right time now. It was first published in The Dog Next Door: And Other Stories of the Dogs We Love by Callie Smith Grant.) I was nine when I...
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Dogs in My Life – Part 2
Max and me “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not...
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1st Sunday Devotional – The Blessing of Work
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters. ~Colossians 3:23 (NIV) I love this picture. It proves that at one time my desk looked neat and...
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Haying Season
The weather here in Kentucky was perfect for haying over Labor Day weekend and until now. Farmers are happy to have the opportunity to get hay cut and baled in good shape without worrying about storm...
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