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Coping during Covid19
I’m sitting at my desk at the start of week 3 of the Safer at Home order in Wisconsin. Apart from an underlying uneasiness of this virus making its way into our towns and cities, being isolated and dealing with the unknown feels familiar. To be honest, the first two weeks of staying at home […]
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April’s Blizzard: (Part 2)
After my neighbors (I thank God for them!) helped me dig out, I went to the grocery store and restocked my food supply and spent a lot of time on the computer looking at pictures of the snow on social media and watching the weather to get snow totals. (We ended up with about 36 […]
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The Blizzard of April 2018 (Part 1)
By mid-April in the South, temperatures routinely reach the 70s and 80s. Dogwoods, red buds, and azaleas bloom, grass turns green, and leaves green up the spectral branches of trees. To get my fill of warm weather that is still to come in Wisconsin, I usually watch the season in its glory as I watch […]
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“Profusion” Zinnia
This Friday Flowers edition is from my vegetable garden where I planted zinnias, petunias, and marigolds to bring beneficial insects to the garden. The butterflies love them the zinnias! Here is a Pearl Crescent, one of the most common butterflies, but I had never looked closely at it until I took this picture. Just look […]
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Phosphate Mining at River Oaks
This is the first Wednesday’s Words post I’ve written in a long time. I’ve been busy revising my first novel called FAITH CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS and drafting my second. Most people who’ve read my pages aren’t familiar with Charleston, South Carolina’s phosphate mining past. During the late 1800s after the Civil War, rich deposits of […]
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Early Fall Wildflower
This may be my last Friday Flower post until next year because our weather is rapidly growing cooler. Most of my cultivated flowers are gone. Even my pots and hanging baskets look pretty shabby, but about a week ago, I found this flower when I was walking Stella. It was nearly the color of the […]
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Love at First Sight
How love begins fascinates me, probably because of the way I fell in love. Sometimes people know each other for only a short time before they find they can’t live without each other. Sometimes they know each other for most of their lives and slip into life together seamlessly. Sometimes people meet and know almost […]
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A Red Hot Sin
It’s early in the morning, and Faith is leaving for Charleston to meet with Josiah Hamilton about mining phosphate rock at River Oaks. She feels guilty about having written a letter pretending to be her father, but not guilty enough not to go through with her plan. #WIP #1linewed #amwriting #amediting “The sound of trickling […]
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Hydrangea Paniculata “Limelight”
These hydrangeas are fading and turning a lovely shade of mauve, but here is one that is still going strong. The bees have loved them, and so have I. Goodbye summer! #FridayFlowers #gardening #bees
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Wednesday’s Words from Faith Can Move Mountains In this excerpt Faith is waiting for the sun to rise before she goes to Charleston to see Josiah Hamilton about mining phosphate at River Oaks. “The sky and the river shone quicksilver in the twilight, the clouds pink and lavender above their gunmetal undersides. The weak light […]
Shannon H. Anderson
Southern Roots & Northern Blossoms
Shannon H. Anderson 