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    Photo Project – November

    To continue my participation in the 2011 Color Photography Challenge here are November’s photos!  November’s color was white and while normally this would be an easy color to photograph our weather had neglected to bless us with snow storms and (many) ice crystals.  We’ve have, however, had mist, which is creepy because it almost never happens here!  Oh well, the blue skies…

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    Be the Change…

    “Be the change you want to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi I know I have mentioned before that I have gone back to school and will finally be completing my degree next summer after a…um…10 year process.  Yep, going to school, being a mom, being a partner and working a lot is a lot to handle.  However, I…

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    Apple Spice Drops

    In my early twenties, I went through a period of time in which I felt it necessary to accumulate as many books as possible.  Poetry, recipes, novels, you name it, I probably had it.  I joined pretty much every book club out there and spent ridiculous amounts of money on said books.  Of all those books, I only have a…

  • Environmental Education,  Everything Else

    Harvesting Broccoli

    As I mentioned a few weeks ago, as part of the 2011 Growing Challenge, we are growing broccoli for the first time ever.  Guess what?  It worked!  Today I got to harvest our very first broccoli from the garden!    I’ve learned that, to ensure that you’re broccoli is ready for harvest, you need to look at at few things:  Is…

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    Small Steps Will Still Get You Where You’re Going

    The world population jumping over the 7 billion mark has had me thinking a bit about my place in the grand scheme of things.  So, after reading a few articles (here and here and here) and playing with a couple of gadgets (here and here) I decided to re-watch this video: I first saw this video about a week or so…

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    Photo Project…

    So, I found this cool blog that makes me happy and have decided to jump on the 2011 Color Photography Challenge bandwagon, even though 2011 is almost over…Better late than never, right?! The idea is to go with the color of the month (October’s color is orange), take as many (or as few) photos as you like and then post them 🙂…