I have been spending a lazy Sunday afternoon cuddled up to my laptop in my bedroom reading through a friend’s blog. She is very real and I like that. Perhaps that is what blogs are – a place to be real. I think one of the reasons “reality” television is so popular, though it is […]
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My friend has a list of a hundred things about her on her blog. (Which I am really enjoying reading by the way.) It sounds like fun so here’s mine: 1. My middle name, Katreen, was my great-grandmother’s middle name. I have never met anyone else with it and I love it!2. I still live
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Can you believe it? I think I squealed with delight when I saw it! The local newspaper for Salem is holding a photography contest for photos people have taken at the State Fair and I decided to enter. Each day, a winner is selected and then people get to vote on the final winner at
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In years past, I used to be much more involved in the Society of Creative Anachronism, an international medieveal renactment group. I still enjoy going on occasion and so this weekend, attended Long and Short in Lebanon, Oregon. It was so much fun to see and catch up with my friends there, to them I’m
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I thought last years photos from the fair would be hard to beat. I had a great one of the ferris wheel and two more of the piglets that are absolutely priceless. However, after finishing up at the author’s table for the night, I was walking through the midway in the rain back to my
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Some time ago, I was put under strict orders to bring my camera to all family gatherings. After buying my Nikon D40x camera, it didn’t take them long to realize I took good photos. Sunday afternoon was particularly fun at my second cousin’s 1st birthday party. Carson sure enjoyed his cake and it was fun
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While I was making Stacey’s quilt, many people said I should enter it at the fair. I told them it would have to be Stacey’s decision as the quilt belonged to her. Well, the day I gave it to her, without me mentioning a thing, she exclaimed that she wanted to put it in the
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In the summer of 1994, I was on choir tour with my youth group through the Western United States. Our choir, “One Heart”, toured for two weeks every year. During my first tour, we were standing in a basement in California being taught our history. In that room underneath the church, we saw the “Holy
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Yesterday morning I was driving up Liberty on my way to work when I looked to my right and saw a sight that yanked hard on my heart strings. Next to the creek that runs south of downtown, was a bulldozer tearing down one of my favorite places in Salem. It was called the Tudor
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I realized I haven’t posted my photography in a while so here goes… I love taking pictures, it can be such an art. These last two are of my nieces. Madison is the one in pink and Gabreella is the red head. They are both two years old, three weeks apart, and are precious girls.
