I wish I had had my camera this evening ( Read more... )

What a glorious way to spend an afternoon. :) Shadorn and I took a nice long walk with the pug, then came back, worked on a little tracking practice in the mud, and tromped through the woods for a while ( Read more... )

Phillip deftly plucked a glass of red wine from the tray of a passing servant and strode out of the ballroom. Now was the best time for a little work. The party was bustling, and most of the guests were engaged in their own entertainments. The older gentlemen had retired to the game room for the evening. The ladies and the young gentlemen were in ( Read more... )

To those of you on my list who write, and plan someday to be published... I have a question ( Read more... )

“Needless to say, it just goes to prove, unlike the government, not everyone can get away with robbing the nobility,” Phillip concluded the story of his triumph over the thieves’ guild, chuckling.

Truly it had been a triumph, but in a slightly different way than he was telling it. He had been a member of the guild for years, ‘coerced’ into it after ( Read more... )

Phillip pulled back the curtain on the window of his carriage and looked out into the lamp-lit summer night. The carriage had come to a halt about halfway up the manicured and ornately decorated drive of Lord Marwell’s estate. Tonight was to be one of the greatest balls of the season, or so he’d been told. Phillip had paid handsomely to acquire an ( Read more... )

Grrr. Why do people always drive like morons in the snow? 4wd does NOT make you immune to ice... And when said person who thought they were immune is all the way in the CENTER of the *wide* median on the highway, and there are cops and pretty lights all over... It is NOT a good time to STOP on glare ice and rubberneck, right in front of the car ( Read more... )

A couple new pictures, taken today. :)

The hairsticks were a Christmas present from Jav. Lightsaber chopsticks, woot!! Love em! Wore 'em to work today. hehe


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Merry Christmas everyone! :)

Winter solstice is one of my favorite times of year. It is such a unique and delicate balance. It is both joy and sadness, hope and darkness. It is the shortest day of the year, and thus the longest night. We look ahead to colder, harsher, weather as winter moves in. Here in Michigan, that also means clouds obscuring the short hours of sunlight for ( Read more... )