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Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half

Posted on July 17, 2015 by maedez

This is my response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half.

William Scarbrough House and Gardens. Savannah.

Daily Diversion #268: Birthday Kettle

Posted on July 13, 2015 by maedez

The Chef gave me an electric kettle for my birthday! It replaces one that I bought in June 2005, and used between 5,000 and 6,000 times. Talk about money well spent.

The new kettle is quite spiffy. I’m looking forward to another long personal and professional association.

Electric Kettle. Bonus points for naming all of the famous writers and movie stars on the inspiration board behind the kettle and cup.

It glows!

I totally didn’t make my husband sit with me in my dark studio and watch a kettle of water come to a boil. We definitely didn’t hold hands. I am in no way weird.

Artsy Electric Kettle*

*I absolutely didn’t put a cool filter on that photo of my birthday kettle. Nope. Wasn’t me.

Daily Diversion #267: Historical Marker

Posted on July 6, 2015 by maedez

A historical marker in my husband’s hometown:

Historical Marker. Middletown.

Daily Diversion #266: Zero

Posted on June 29, 2015 by maedez

Our recent house-guest:

Zero

Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse

Posted on June 26, 2015 by maedez

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.”-Rumi

Two Graves

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

Wall of Graves

This is my entry in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse.

Daily Diversion #265: Topiary Twosome

Posted on June 16, 2015 by maedez

Topiary Twosome

Daily Diversion #264: Writers Must Eat, Too

Posted on June 9, 2015 by maedez

Sautéed Chickpeas and Veg, with Wilted Lettuce

Daily Diversion #263: Flowering Tree

Posted on June 3, 2015 by maedez

I cannot know, yet, whether or not I will miss this tree after we move. Since it is one of the only poetic things about our current neighborhood, I’m leaning towards yes. Time will tell.

Flowering Tree in the Backyard

Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Way

Posted on May 29, 2015 by maedez

This is my response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Way.

I saw this during a road trip in 2014. It was by our car in a hotel parking lot in Tennessee.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken

Posted on May 22, 2015 by maedez

This is my response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken.

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