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The Late Bloomers
J I have such a hard time saying goodbye to summer.. so my flowers decided to give me one last fragrant send off before November and much colder weather arrives. My zinnias are hanging in there and my gardenias are thriving! I love the fact that Fall still gives us warm afternoons, but chilly nights.…
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The strength within my daughter
This will be my hardest most challenging blog yet. I have wanted to write it for a while, but I wanted to give it much thought and attention. As in any form of art or creative expression, your most endearing and personal loves or relationships are the hardest to express because you want them to…
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I’ll just throw some steak on the Barbie
We usually have always had a gas grill, but it just finally gave up and died. We went to purchase a new gas grill and decided to go old school with a Weber charcoal grill. Remember those days of summer when, as a kid, you played all day, got a bit sunburned, had a fabulous…
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Let’s Fall Into It
About four years ago, this was how my Japanese maple looked at this time of year. If anyone paid attention in 7th grade science clsss, they will remember that chlorophyll is what gives the leaf it’s green color. There are many environmental factors that determine if you will have an explosion of fall majesty or…
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I’ll have a side of bluegrass with that please!
Growing up, my family loved all kinds of music… our music spectrum was wide. My dad was always the choir director at millbrook Methodist church, my brother played the organ and piano in church in raleigh and at Bethesda Methodist and my other brother Paul sang and sister too. I sang solos when very young…
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CRY me a River
Interstate 40 coming into Wilmington NC People are weary September in NC can be full of excitement with football season, families getting back to a routine and cooler temps on the horizon, but this September has been full of too much angst among many eastern North Carolinians. If you have read…
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Rain rain please find a drain….
This is my son in law showing how deep the water was Sunday in the house that he and my daughter and the twins live in. You can see the trampoline in the back yard and seven feet behind that trampoline there is normally a small creek that is a few miles long. The creek…
Gracie ponders 