Nashville!

Readers will know that we just returned from a week in Nashville for Turdstock2024 and some sightseeing. Here are some highlights. See what welcomed us at the hotel front desk! Friday started out with a short walk near our hotel, which was right across from the campus of Vanderbilt University. Its buildings are from a …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #147-Gardens, old and new, near and far

I admit it, I have ten brown thumbs.  I am not fond of yard work, and know very little about plants, or gardens.  But I know a pleasant garden when I see one.  If I can keep my mind off all the backbreaking work involved in maintaining a garden, I find them quite relaxing. The …

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Sigh…Final Photo Challenge…All-time Favorites

I am SO sad that the Photo Challenge by the editors at WordPress is ending.  It gave me something to look forward to each week, and a reason to mine my photos for just the right picture. And it's so difficult to find the all-time favorite.  But, since it has to be done, I did …

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Easy Being Green…Gardens I’ve Seen

I hate green.  Green is my least favorite color, at least in clothing and accessories and household goods.  I don't wear green on Saint Patrick's Day, or any other day, for that matter.  And I'm the opposite of an "environmental wacko", since I don't believe that humans are a blot on the landscape, or destroying …

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A Politically-incorrect way to think about the conflict in Syria

So while our president is tying himself and his regime in knots trying to figure out what to do in/about Syria, here are some facts. The Iranians have said that, if we bomb Syria, they and their buddies, Hezbollah and Al-Quaeda, will take out the state of Israel. First of all, unlike our so-called commander …

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