Tag: Little Things
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Saturday fortune (because this took me so long I missed Friday): Skill
Skill, as you can clearly see, is not something I have when it comes to photographing tarot cards, but after a search for images turned up nothing, I was forced to make the attempt. ;) Card of the day: Three of Coins, “Skill” Today’s fortune is one I have pulled many times when asking questions…
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Friday fortune: Fantasy
Well, this is an appropriate card for a fantasy writer to pull. :) Card of the Day: Seven of Cups, “Fantasy” In the Russian Tarot of St. Petersburg’s Seven of Cups, the central figure is that of a serf observing cups overflowing with a wide array of fantastical objects: what might be imperial jewels; an…
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Happy Birthday, Dear Blog
I just realized Tuesday was exactly one year from my first post on this blog. I was sitting down to talk about gardening today, and remembered my first post had been about gardening. And what do you know? I started gardening almost the same day last year. It was the end of a long saga…
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Little things
I’m insufferably pleased with myself right now. After much hair-pulling, wailing, and human sacri—er, I mean, “positive thinking,” I have finally figured out how to make my blog navigation work the way I want it to. There is now a handy-dandy home page separate from the blog. (The hyperlinks are also now in a matching…
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Those lying steamboat captains! Grrr!
I adore the NY Times archives. I come across these old articles every once in a while during random research that are so entertaining it makes me wish I lived a hundred or so years ago if for no other reason than to look forward to the morning paper. Tonight I was researching steamboat speed…
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Photostream
You might be wondering what that slide show is in the banner. Those are the last nine pictures I uploaded to Flickr. At the time I originally wrote this post, they were pictures from my trip to St. Petersburg, Russia in June/July 2006, now shown below. View the progression of sunset beginning at midnight on…
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary
I spent the day gardening, both inside and out. First, I finally got my new website and blog together, and up and running after sitting on my domain for two years. You’re looking at it. (There are still a few things to add, like my blogroll and Twitter feed, and various other knick-knacks, but the…