Yesterday, I linked my Medium.com post on my blog here. I wrote the post on Medium and left a link here. Overnight, it went viral and is still accumulating views and has been read almost 1,000 times. It’s too bad that I’m not already behind the paywall on that platform! If you’d like to read…
A number of close friends and family do not read my blog. This frustrates me but I’ve given up on trying to convince them that it is a way to know what’s keeping me busy, what I am thinking about, what my passions are on any given day, and sometimes, what’s frustrating me. Reading what…
The native wild blue lupine is blooming in my yard! This is a host plant for Karner Blue butterflies. Like monarchs, the Karner Blue larva feed off of only one plant – the wild blue lupine. It is necessary for them to live and survive. Although endangered, this butterfly is doing well mainly due to…
Last year, I set a blogging goal for myself of at least 1,000 views a month. I met it except for the month of May. What is it about May? I’ve had plenty of views this year, making my stats glow with well over 1K per month until THIS month – May! I have about…
Here it is Poetry Friday again and once again, I do not have any new poetry to share. It’s not that I haven’t been working on poetry – I have, but my writing has taken the form of editing chores, searching for publication possibilities, and new poetry groups to join. I also have been invited…
Thank you for stopping by my Silent Sunday post where I feature mostly my own photography on a theme of my choice. Enjoy!
Thanks for stopping by The Apples in My Orchard! I am taking a week’s break from writing on my blog (well, with this exception)! I hope to recharge and refresh myself during this week. Rest assured, there are other things I am writing and will share those when and if the time comes. I want…
In late February 2017, I decided to join the Slice of Life Writing Challenge for March. This writing challenge, hosted by TwoWritingTeachers.org, involves writing daily for the month of March and responding to at least three other bloggers’ posts. I did it and then some. I kept writing and writing and writing. Five years later,…
As some of my faithful readers know, I’ve been going through my house and purging in order to put our house on the market later this spring and move. This month I decided to attack my home office and my beading area, as well as continue to weed out our storage area downstairs. I have…
In my blog post yesterday (I write daily here at The Apples in My Orchard), I wrote about a pair of cardinals that had been visiting our yard. You can check the post out here: Cardinal Story. My poem today focuses on the same pair of birds, just put into a poem. Cardinal Story: A…