SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH

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• THE ART OF THE HEADLINE

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 09/27/2022 • ( 11 )

  

  Blogging Insights NF # 55 — Headlines “On the average five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.” — David… Read More ›

• M IS FOR MUMS, MAGNOLIAS AND MAPLES

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 09/27/2022 • ( 7 )

  

  FOTD – September 26 – Magnolia, sugar maple and mums The Ms turned out to be pretty special. I think I have more of them somewhere, but these three will be good enough, I hope.

• HOME-STYLE MAKI ROLLS

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 09/26/2022 • ( 19 )

  

  I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging, but I did it again tonight. Well, really, I didn’t have much choice. I had opened the fish and the vegetables and they wouldn’t keep, so I needed use the rest of… Read More ›

• L IS FOR LILY, LILAC AND LANTANA

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 09/26/2022 • ( 13 )

  

  FOTD – September 25 – Lilies, Lilacs and Lantana “THREE WINDS,” she cried. He frowned, but picked more tiles from the wall. Lilies of Tiger and Easter sounds like a mah jongg move, doesn’t it? On the other hand, there’s… Read More ›

• J IS FOR JIMSON WEED

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 09/26/2022 • ( 11 )

  

  FOTD – September 26 – Jimson Weed — It IS pokeberry — and it’s still poisonous. I know we passed J, but I felt these pictures needed a home. There big purple berries grow everywhere this time of year. The… Read More ›

• BLACK & WHITE PHOTO PICKS

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 09/25/2022 • ( 24 )

  

  CBWC: My Pick – The best of the black & white photographs I don’t know if these are my best black & white photographs, but they are among my favorites.

• DID YOU SEE THE PICTURE?

  By Rich Paschall on 09/25/2022 • ( 8 )

  A Marriage Equality Story, by Rich Paschall When Eddie went into the army, Marge and her husband Edgar decide to leave the Midwest and head for Arizona.  As each year went past, Edgar found the winters difficult and the summers… Read More ›

• K IS FOR KITCHEN WINDOW AND THE GARDEN BEYOND IT

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 09/25/2022 • ( 13 )

  

  Suddenly, it’s fall. Time to go a’leafing! I already know I don’t have any “K” flowers, but I’ve got some lovely shots of the kitchen window and this year’s deck flowers: chrysanthemums, lantana and petunias. Since I took these photos,… Read More ›

• HOW EASY IS IT TO GET CAUGHT IN A SCAM?

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 09/24/2022 • ( 12 )

  

  A simple little email from a friend asking for a favor involving a couple of hundred dollars. Except that when you read it again you realize that the signature isn’t his usual signature — and he says he’s traveling, but… Read More ›

• J IS FOR JAPANESE MAPLE TREE

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 09/24/2022 • ( 13 )

  

  FOTD – September 24 – Japanese Maple And suddenly, the letter “J” floated before my eyes and I saw my tree, my lovely Japanese Maple that is green all summer, but scarlet in the autumn.

• I IS FOR IRIS

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 09/23/2022 • ( 9 )

  

  FOTD – September 23 – IRIS The irises got eaten by the skunks and have never been replanted. I miss them, but I can’t manage the bigger gardens anymore. Meanwhile, these are the irises we grew back when the garden… Read More ›

• MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS – GARRY ARMSTRONG

  By Garry Armstrong on 09/23/2022 • ( 9 )

  

  I just finished reading the definitive biography of legendary film director, John Ford. It’s a wonderful read by Scott Eyman who specializes in biographies of Hollywood legends. “Pappy” Ford, of course, was the master of western films — from the… Read More ›

• LORD OF THE WHAT?

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 09/22/2022 • ( 24 )

  

  Fandango’s Provocative Question #183 The right question, but the wrong “slant.” I could care less what race they show them to be, but I do care how much they distort the story and how little they apparently care for J.R.R. Tolkien’s… Read More ›

• THEN CAME THE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM NATIONAL GRID

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 09/22/2022 • ( 44 )

  

  I thought it wasn’t going to get much worse, but then… Electric bills will be $114 higher each month compared to last year. That’s a 64% increase for the same amount of energy use, driven by higher electric supply price…. Read More ›

• INSTANT AUTUMN

  By Rich Paschall on 09/22/2022 • ( 2 )

  Summer lasted pretty much all summer. That is to say, it was warm and sunny most days with a few summer storms thrown in for good measure. We usually saw temperatures in the 80s with our share of the 90s… Read More ›

• H IS FOR HOLLY, HEMP, HOSTA AND HYDRANGEA

  By Marilyn Armstrong on 09/22/2022 • ( 4 )

  

  FOTD – September 22 – H is for Holly, Hemp, Hosta & Hydrangea I made it all the way to H! It’s a bonanza!

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