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Essential Photographs!
Sheena is more cat than dog. She'd sit on window ledges and
look out, if we had ledges. We have a family joke, she's half cat
because of the looking outside and because of how she pounces
on prey, half rabbit because of the way she jumps (sometimes
vertically), and half wolf because of her howl.  According to my
oldest son, she's a "hair factory" because she sheds so much
when she sheds. My dustbunnies are hairbunnies, but I don't
care, I still love her. On August 23rd, 2008, she added a new
suffix to her name:  the dreaded mouse\rat\cat\groundhog\bat
killer. She nabbed a bat in midair in our house and killed it before
I could stop her! Bats eat tons of mosquitoes and other pesky
bugs each night so I was a bit upset.
My office as seen from the living room. As you can tell, I LOVE books!
If you look carefully, you can also see bits of my other loves, Star
Trek and my art desk for when I have time for doing drawings with
various media.
The cake one of my adult creative class
students bought for our class party the last
night on November 7, 2011. She called me a
Word Artist. I love teaching adults.
An Asian-looking tree at one of the schools
I substitute in. It's a good thing I took this
picture last fall a year ago because during
the summer of 2011 they cut it down for a
major remodeling project! DUMMIES! I loved
that tree!
I'm a nut for odd clouds and this one fits
that bill. As soon as my son and I saw it we
both said almost at the same time that it
looks like the planet killer from Star Trek,
our favorite show. Taken in summer 2010.
Some guinea fowl that cruised through our
yard for a few months in the summer of
2010. That's our front porch steps they're
eating on! They're bigger than chickens and
make an odd clucking cooing sound.
Flooding in July, 2910, top two pictures in
my neighborhood; bottom two are half a
mile away. People still don't live in the
brown houses and the deputy has
waterproofed his basement and replaced
his front porch.
A goldfinch eating from a branch right
outside my office window, summer 2010.
My adult creative writing class at our party
on November 7, 2011. I hated it when the
class ended!
A very old picture of the elementary school I
went to for 2nd through 6th grades in the
1960s. I have some very good memories of
the place, the singing around the giant
Christmas tree in the giant center hall, the
spring festival, the good teachers, and
being in one school for more than six
months!