Marsha Lee

Book Review: The Secret Child by Marti Healy

April 29, 2013 by tchistorygal

Even in 1855 few humans had choose between living in an enchanted forest with fairies or living with humans, between dwelling in a forested utopia or in a nation about to be torn by the most devastating war in the history of the United States, or between becoming immortal or remaining mortal. Cian, a fairy whose Gaelic name meant ancient, dreamed about the coming of a secret child to the hidden community of fairies who inhabited the forest known as […]

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Categories: Books, Experience • Tags: Book Hub, celtic mythology, Christine Louise McNamera, Marsha Lee, Marti Healy, sci-fi, Secret Child

standing from the Master Gardener booth looking over the field

Good Morning World

April 28, 2013 by tchistorygal

I do love blogging, and I try to post consistently so that my blogging friends will know I’m alive and keep coming to see me. I recently read a recommended book, Getting Started with Twitter for Dummies, and updated my Twitter account. There I learned blogging tips from Daniel Sharkov, a 19-year-old. So today, because of his recommendation, I just added a new page, New Here, to help explain why I’m here on this blogging planet. Check it out and tell […]

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Categories: About, Blogging, Photography, plants • Tags: Marsha Lee, Master Gardeners, photography, Porterville Iris Festival, Sally Pace

Bellavista

April 26, 2013 by tchistorygal

As a native Hoosier, my tendency is to be hospitable. My mother always loved to have company, and it didn’t matter when you came, if she was home, she would get you a glass of iced tea or Pepsi, and you all would sit down and visit. At Grandma’s that visit also included a walk through the yard to see what had bloomed since the day before when you were last there. I guess I haven’t outgrown that upbringing. Even […]

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Categories: About, Family, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: family, hospitality, landscaping, Marsha Lee, yard art

Word a Week Challenge: Worker

April 25, 2013 by tchistorygal

I found this A Word A Week Challenge browsing your websites. Workers, are they professional, blue-collar, amateurs learning a hobby? Are workers those who work outside or inside? Is work physical or mental, or both? Genesis tells us that six days God worked, and on the seventh day God rested. I’m sure his work involved a bit of thought and creativity as well as some pretty heavy lifting – even if He was just filling craters with water and […]

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Categories: agriculture, Challenges, Experience, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: A Word A Week Challenge, Marsha Lee, photography, social studies lesson, workers

Walking on Ice

April 24, 2013 by tchistorygal

Reblogged from The Eternal Traveller: In 2012 a guided hike on Fox Glacier with Fox Glacier Guiding was 64th on the AA Travel “101 Must-Do List for Kiwis”, but it was number one on my wish list when we visited the West Coast of New Zealand. Mr ET was surprised by the cost but I was adamant that I was going whether he did or not! Read more… 765 more words I haven’t been reblogging as much as I used to, […]

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Wildflower Photography Class

April 22, 2013 by tchistorygal

I’ve been shopping at Mike”s Quality Camera for several years, since I got my digital camera at Costco, and the original lens quit working correctly (after the warranty expired). This was my first official photography, meaning light-writing, class. My dad was an amateur photographer, so I osmosed a bit from him, but most the technical stuff never took. I bought a new lens after lusting after someone else’s at the Underground Garden, and the sales lady, Pam, asked if I […]

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Categories: animals, Experience, Photography, plants, Tulare County

This quilt is up on the wall, but the squirrel is up, too.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

April 21, 2013 by tchistorygal

I enjoy the WordPress challenges. This one, UP, was particularly fun. Up is ubiquitous. As I looked up my photos, “up” took on one meaning after another. Some of my up connections may be stretching it a bit, but I’ve heard them all used – or used them myself. Yesterday I wanted to finish up showing my favorite quilt show pictures using different challenges, but then I wondered…. Are you fed up with quilts, or are you still upbeat about […]

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Categories: Challenges, Experience, history-social science, Photography, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Allensworth, Colonial Williamsburg, Marsha Lee, photography, UP, WP Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Color

April 18, 2013 by tchistorygal

I’m sure I’m late for this challenge, but you know when you retire, you can hardly tell one day from another, let alone one week from another. At the Kiwanis Hunger Run we assembled at the Woodlake Botanical Gardens, which is a well hidden treasure right on the main street skirting Woodlake. I wanted to go back and take pictures of the gorgeous roses before it got too hot for them to be beautiful any more. Besides that I purchased […]

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Categories: California, Photography, Tulare County, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Marsha Lee, Roses, Woodlake Botanical Gardens, WP Challenge color

Wordless Wednesday: Purity

April 17, 2013 by tchistorygal

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Categories: Challenges, Photography, Wordless Wednesday • Tags: Cee Neuner, Marsha Lee, Woodlake Botanical Gardens, Wordless Wednesday

I’ve Been Tagged

April 16, 2013 by tchistorygal

Before I start, I want to speak my condolences to those in Boston, and my prayers are with you. As I was digging into Ute‘s blog today I found out that I’ve been tagged. Thanks Ute! What fun! The idea is to answer eleven questions set by him and then ask more questions to eleven others. Here are her questions, followed by my questions and the folks I’ve nominated to answer them, and write their own questions and pass them […]

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Categories: Awards, Blogging, Experience • Tags: http://utesmile.wordpress.com/, Marsha Lee, Tagged

Afternoon Stroll Best of Show at the 2013Best of Valley Quilt Show

Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

April 15, 2013 by tchistorygal

I started quilting many years ago, then took about a 35 year break. Over the years the quilting hobby changed drastically. This year I noticed that quilters incorporate much more bling and texture into their quilts than I’ve ever noticed before. Bling might come in the form of fancy machine embroidering with multi-colored or metallic threads or objects sewn onto the quilt. Quilters also bling their quilts in the same way they glitz clothing – with beads, and shiny things. Clothing […]

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Categories: Experience, Photography, Quilting, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Best of Valley Quilt Show, change, Lindsay California, McDermont Field, Weekly Photo Challenge

Travel theme: Benches

April 14, 2013 by tchistorygal

Today I went with my friend Connie to the Best of the Valley Quilt Show at the McDermont Field House in Lindsay, CA. It was so overwhelming, I decided to use challenges and themes to tell part of the story. I took over 200 pictures, and it will take me over a year to tell you the story, and by then it will be time for another quilt show. I can’t believe how MANY talented quilters there are in this […]

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Categories: animals, art, Challenges, Photography, Quilting, Travel Theme • Tags: animals, benches, Fine Art America, Marsha Lee, quilting

Silent Sunday: My Lips Are Sealed

April 14, 2013 by tchistorygal

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Kiwanis Roundup for Hunger

April 13, 2013 by tchistorygal

Can you believe that I could get somewhere – anywhere at 6:15 a.m.?Good, that means you know me pretty well. I got there at 6:25 a.m., complete with camera, but my disk had no space AND no pictures. What’s up with that? I learned how to format my disk today because of it. Needless to say, I was a little late to my assigned post, but I got there. It turned out that many people came to help, so I […]

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Categories: Events, Experience, Tulare County, Woodlake Kiwanis

Need Faith In the Future? Interview Today’s Students

April 12, 2013 by tchistorygal

Want more hope? Today I got a major shot of hope when I interviewed seniors from Woodlake High School about the portfolios they do as a graduation requirement. I should have illegally taken pictures of them as I was grading them this week, but rats, I just now thought of it. Meeting these students in person brightened my day today. Students begin working on the portfolios long before they have the interview. They start their freshman year collecting evidence of […]

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Categories: Education, Events, Experience • Tags: future, portfolio exit interviews, Woodlake High School

Step one cut the list from the WP reader.

What Are You Reading?

April 11, 2013 by tchistorygal

“What did you read today?” asks my book-reviewing blogging friend, Marcia. That question made me examine my reading habits. What I really love is drivel. Shock! I thought I was an intellectual! Drivel is different from trivia, the plural of trivium. Drivel is “silly nonsense”, while trivia (pl) are a step above that, “inconsequential or insignificant matters.” Actually I love both. And I can spend enormous amounts of time organizing myself so that I can enjoy my drivel to the […]

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Categories: Blogging, Books, Writing • Tags: blogging, reading, trivia

A Valleycation Date in Kingsburg and Fresno California

April 10, 2013 by tchistorygal

Vince and I scheduled today as a valleycation date. I love that word. My friend, Mary, coined it. It is like a stacation – a vacation where you stay at home and enjoy what you have at home. A valleycation is when you visit locations in the San Joaquin Valley (where we live) that you have always wanted to see, but never had the time-or took the time to visit like a tourist would. We left home about 11:00 and […]

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Categories: agriculture, architecture, Experience, food, Photography, plants • Tags: Baldassare Forestiere, Fresno California, Kingsburg California, Marsha Lee, stay at home vacation, Underground Gardens

Good bass, catfish , and trout fishing in Bravo Lake

Bravo Lake Is All Filled Up

April 9, 2013 by tchistorygal

Sally Pace and I walked around Bravo Lake for the first time together on February 12. It was so empty. I darkened it to show you how sad it looked, and wrote my name in the sky so you’d know the sky wasn’t really that color. The amount of water is real. Water managers turned on the faucets and filled Bravo Lake over the weekend. Today I picked up trash along side of five middle school students, and their teacher, […]

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Categories: clouds, Experience, mountains, people, Photography, Photoshop, Tulare County • Tags: Bravo Lake, Kiwanis Club of Woodlake, Marsha Lee, photography, real estate, Vince Ingrao, Walk for Hunger, Woodlake Botanical Gardens

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Walking on Ice

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Wildflower Photography Class

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Color

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Wordless Wednesday: Purity

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I’ve Been Tagged

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

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Travel theme: Benches

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Silent Sunday: My Lips Are Sealed

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Kiwanis Roundup for Hunger

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Need Faith In the Future? Interview Today’s Students

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What Are You Reading?

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A Valleycation Date in Kingsburg and Fresno California

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Bravo Lake Is All Filled Up

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