A Chill Chicago View Rainy, windy, and overcast – nevertheless, a perfect View from the Road. Take a look at Lake Michigan and Chicago Skyline glistening in all of its beauty.
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A Chill Chicago View Rainy, windy, and overcast – nevertheless, a perfect View from the Road. Take a look at Lake Michigan and Chicago Skyline glistening in all of its beauty.
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In A Wild Wyoming Rest Area I love rest stops, not only do they provide a necessary service; but they can also offer an interesting encounter with others on the road, a place to stretch your legs, eat your packed lunch, and if you are lucky, they can be a wonderful showcase for their...
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Wild Flowers I love fields of wild flowers Do cattails qualify as wild flowers? Probably not, but they nonetheless make a great background for true wild flowers. Queen Ann’s Lace — so perfectly named There is something so enthralling about flowers planted by God Do you...
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Nour’s Geese Not Ducks at All Several months ago, we sat in the Florida room chatting, when we were drawn outside by a new sound. The ducks, which have the run of the park, lake, and our collective yards, were in a bit of a huff. We walked outside, and much to...
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The Jews of Spain A History of the Sephardic Experience By Jane S. Gerber “As apparent to these observers and indeed all visitors, a brilliant era was dawning in Spain. Forever afterward, the tenth and eleventh centuries would be remembered by Jews as the nation’s ‘Golden Age,’ an epoch in which they enjoyed unusual...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ The Seine at Asnieres by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (1841-1919), was a French painter, and contemporary of Monet, with whom he worked, to birth the Impressionist movement, in art. Renoir was not only...
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“Well, after a while there is nothing left to fight about.” I opened the third drawer of my seven day dresser, where I keep my hair brush and the like and which I have opened a thousand times in the last ten years; but saw something different, it was as if I was...
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Subject: Unworthy of a Single Thought The words were cold, cruel, and bitter; nevertheless I read them again, I had to. One more time, from the beginning – I had to see beyond what they said and focus on what they meant. There was comfort to be had in their hatred. I would never...
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Carrot Cake This has become one of my signature cakes. I have had more people request this cake, than any other sweet, that I make. I first made this for my Mother, as her birthday cake, and if we are together, for her birthday, I still make it – something to bear in mind,...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ The Shepherd’s Song by Pierre Puvis De Chavannes I am not usually drawn to such muted tones or the stillness of the subjects, in this painting, but I find this work rather...
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