Every historic building has a story to tell
During July, which slipped away just last week, I reveled in the cool temperatures of Northern Michigan and sagged and sweated in the sultry 95-degree days in Clinton County, Kentucky. I took many photographs in each location, but I failed to write any blog posts last month. Now, with summer camp over, I’m immersed in (read more)
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Tags: #farms, #kentuckyarchitecture, #lighthouses, #michigan
I wish I could say I’ve prepared some insightful commentary about this year, historic buildings, or plant life. Sadly, the fact that I am able to steal away a few moments to type 200 or so words is all I can manage right now. While I firmly believe that public schools should resume classes (read more)
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Tag: #NewYearsEve
Thanks to the magic (ha!) of social media, this blog has some new followers with many questions. Although many Kentucky readers know who I am and my background, I can’t assume that everyone is acquainted with the facts – hence, this primer of sorts on who I am and why this blog (and its associated (read more)
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This past December, I wrote a piece entitled “Sound Travels in the Country,” about growing up in the country, and what it means to hear the plaintive wail of an ambulance on a stretch of road that is all family farms. Today I heard that ambulance as I ran to my car, and I knew (read more)
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The term “ambulance chaser” had a focused and singular meaning when I was a little girl. If one of the county’s emergency vehicles or fire truck made their way past our driveway, the sound floating up the hill to us, then my father went out to the truck to follow. Sound travels far in the (read more)
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Holidays can be very hard (warning: this is not my typical post about buildings or places). I wish I could be researching and writing about one of the topics on my ever-expanding list of cool things I’ve found or discovered, but life intervenes at times. My personal stress level is high, I am worried about (read more)
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Tag: Thanksgiving
For those of you who follow Gardens to Gables on social media, including Facebook and Instagram, today, 13 March, 2019, there was no love. Around noon, Facebook stopped working, and at 8 pm EST as I write this, it still remains unusable for many, including yours truly. I am sending this post out to assure (read more)
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Tags: #facebookdown, Facebook outage, Instagram outage, social media
Today’s date – June 21, 2018 – really only meant the summer solstice to me before I idly clicked on Twitter this morning. It is also apparently National Selfie Day – you know, taking a picture of yourself with a cell phone camera, usually (for me) with the result of my forehead dominating the resulting (read more)
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Tag: National Selfie Day
Americans love a holiday. The penchant for celebrating the mundane results in a calendar peppered with “National Cow Day,” “Be Late for Something Day,” or “National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day.” But I was wholly unprepared for “National Handwriting Day,” although the act of grasping writing utensil in hand shaped my formative years and has (read more)
Categories: Uncategorized, Writing
Tags: handwriting, letters
Just in case anyone DOES look at this blog besides my dearest and nearest, and you don’t already arrive here from Smitten by Britain – you can find more stories of England, written by yours truly, here! My talents as a writer do not extend to composing blog posts as I am shepherded to three (read more)
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