Welcome to Poetry Friday! Our host for this week is the talented and fellow nature lover, Rose Cappelli. You can join the round-up on her blog at Imagine the Possibilities. This week, I want to celebrate Jone Rush MacCulloch’s new book, Tilt, by offering my review of this novel in verse. I’ve been blessed by…
I started this morning reviewing some blog articles I wrote in 2012, 2013, and 2014 for a website I made for my elementary after-school garden club students and parents. Reading my own words brought back many fond memories of the years I led this group I founded in 2004. It ended in 2017, but then…
Happy Poetry Friday! Our host for this week’s round-up is Tanita on her blog, Fiction, instead of Lies. For links to more poetry, be sure to visit her page. Many of you know I’ve been staying with my Dad in his home in Brockport New York for the last two-plus weeks. Last week, while I…
This week has been stressful once again. We’ve been in New York since last Thursday the 14th. My Dad was admitted to the hospital on the 13th after seeing his oncology doctor in her office. My sister was with him and drove him to the ER. By nine that night, he had a hospital bed…
Although I do buy books regularly, I am also a frequent visitor to the library. At the end of June, I borrowed a stack of books from our tiny local library branch. I was in search of a few classics to offer to read along with my overseas tutee. There, I came up short. Her…
I’m working on my guidelines for submissions to the anthology project – Nature Poetry In Pictures. While this is not the “official” title it conveys what I am looking for. The guidelines will be posted late next Friday. Submissions are to start soon after. The work will focus on ekphrastic poetry. If you are not…
Today is Poetry Friday! Our host is Laura Purdie Salas and she has tons of good news on her blog today. Make sure you check it out! You can also connect to more poets and their poetry at the end of her post! Thanks for hosting Laura! I’m preparing a presentation on bats for Environmental…
Today is Silent Sunday. All photos are copyrighted by Carol Labuzzetta with all rights reserved, 2004-2017. Represented today are SOME of the self-made posters for the elementary garden clubs I taught for 15 years. Information on posters came from various scientific publications and was documented in the lesson plans. Since we did not have any…
Have you ever heard of a plant that doesn’t need soil to thrive? There are a whole group of such plants! They are called epiphytes! You might know them as air plants. I first became interested in epiphytic plants when I was leading an after-school garden club for elementary students, years ago. Planning a holiday…
I like to collect authors. These are people who write books with characters who stay with me, a storyline that engrosses me or offers such insight into history that I learn from the facts woven into the story. For me, these authors are people like E.B.White, Madeline d”Engle, Roald Dahl, and Mary Doria Russell, as…