There’s an online Halloweensie Contest on Susanna Leonard Hill’s blog.  The rules of the contest are to write a 100-word or less Halloween story appropriate for weensie readers, using the words spooky, black cat, and cackle.  Here’s what I came up with: Witch and Ghost Witch and Ghost walk hand in hand. They pass Black […]

Hoppy Friday!  I’m happy to host Mortimer at my blog this week.  Thanks to B.J. Lee for sending Mortimer my way after he visited the Blue Window.  Here’s how to hop “Mortimer Minute” style! Answer 3 questions. Pick one question from the previous Hopper. Add two of your own. Keep it short, please! This is a […]

I shot these photographs at the birdfeeder in my backyard this week. Who is that tiny chickadee…and that strange little bird with the brown cap?  Why it’s a Carolina chickadee sharing feeder space with his pal, the brown-headed nuthatch. Like the chickadee,  I am in Carolina (North, that is.)  My husband has a sabbatical from […]