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While I do not like talking about myself, I have developed quite the propensity for writing about myself.  Good thing given the Kreative Blogger Award presented by Christy of the blog Poetic Parfait.  An award presented to bloggers by bloggers, the rules of acceptance are:

(1)  Thank the blogger who presented me with the award. (2)  Post a photo of the award.  (3) Share ten things about me that readers don’t know.  (4) Choose six people to present this award to.  (5) Let the six know that they have been awarded!

Thank you, Christy, for the award and mostly for reading my blog and giving comment.  Your feedback is always welcome and helps me view my work in new ways. 😉  Hmmm, ten things many people don’t know about me …

1. In Thailand I rode an elephant and whitewater rafted barefoot.

2. In Costa Rica, I paid to go bungee jumping ( but the trip was cancelled due to heavy rains).

3. The best cup of coffee I have ever had was at Cafe du Monde in New Orleans.  And there’s no need to even describe the beignets!

4. When I was less sensitive to cold, I traveled around Montana for work.  There I saw my first buffalo near Yellowstone.  Such beautiful brown eyes.

5.  I once drank a cup of mint tea and had a sudden detailed memory of travels through the Sahara.  But I’ve never been to the Sahara …

6. I’m on the lighter side in terms of weight. When I told my dad once how the winds were nearly knocking me down, he said quite calmly, “Put some bricks in your pockets.”

7. My favorite apple is Granny Smith but I will eat them all!

8. Orange and blue are my favorite colors … if I have to choose.

9. I have a mid-level belt in karate.

10. For some odd reason I perceive of myself as much taller than I actually am (probably because of my 6′ and taller brothers), so my friends will often gently remind me that I am only five foot three.  😉

As for sites I recommend there are many, but here are six on my mind at the moment, all very different in terms of content but similar in simple visual beauty.

http://cookinginsens.wordpress.com/

http://ruralpearl.com/blog/

http://www.danielsroka.com/blog/

http://toscanaturid.wordpress.com/

http://anafternoonwith.com/

http://latreloar.wordpress.com/

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… or, in this case, dust on the radiator.

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Actually, an image of steam rising from a couple of eggs I boiled for a young friend’s lunch yesterday.

I guess the sun was shining through the kitchen window just right.  Or I just happened to look over my shoulder at the right time.  I’ve been trying to get better at planning photo shoots and selecting items to photograph.  I must say, I would never have thought to photograph steam.  Until now.

It was captivating to watch the patterns appear and disappear.

I must say the next time I boil an egg I’ll be curious to see how the light is shining into the room. 😉

 

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Today, I could stand it no longer.  I raced to the grocery store in the rain.  You see, over the past couple of weeks I read two very different literary works that had me hungering to purchase specific food items.  For what purpose?  Photography followed by consumption.  First I read Elizabeth Langosy’s article, A.S. Byatt’s Plums.  In a nutshell, the article explores the challenge for writers in conveying sensory experiences to the reader.  It is a powerful read accompanied by visually striking images of plums that have yet to leave my mind.  I couldn’t find them in the store today, but thankfully I did find green beans.  You see, I had also read Mary Oliver’s poem, Beans.

In Oliver’s same book, she writes of walking through blueberry fields and of gathering honeyed blossoms with crispy seeds.  But in the grocery store, the blueberries did not jump into my basket nor did bottles of bright gold honey.  I did buy one red pepper and a bit of garlic to stir fry with the green beans.

After one last look for plums,  I found an asian pear on sale.  FYI, later at home, after a bit of slicing and dicing, that made a tasty snack!

I also found sitting alone at the bottom of a shallow basket, a passion fruit.  In my literary frame of mind, I was instantly reminded of the women’s travel magazine called Passion Fruit that I had found very inspiring when I first dabbled at travel writing.  I bought it and, once home,  immediately sliced into it.

I have since learned that I probably should not have sliced it open just yet, but there is a part of me that is not sorry to see such pale beauty.

 

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