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Barbara Swafford

Today We Celebrate Barbara Swafford

Today it’s all about Barbara Swafford, of Blogging Without A Blog.  Barbara’s passion is offering support to other bloggers as we navigate process and philosophy.  Her energy and enthusiasm is legendary, and we’ve often been its beneficiary. When Patricia suggested joining together in tribute Barbara, we knew we’d have to come up with something just [...]

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Looking Into Forever Part 4

I am this water. From any approach, there is a heart-stopping moment when Lake Superior reveals herself in full.  It never fails to take my breath away. The longer I am away from Big Water, the more there is that feels amiss in my life.  I have lived close to the Pacific Ocean, and near [...]

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New and Improved Spam

Any blogger who uses the Akismet spam plug-in, which auto-magically dumps spammer comments out of your regular comment stream, knows that one of the fun things you can do upon return from an extended absence is to take a look at what got relegated to the pre-trash bin. We looked at some of the more [...]

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POETRY FROM OUR SPAM FOLDER

POETRY FROM OUR SPAM FOLDER

Our Akismet plug-in is a little work horse, intercepting and filtering spam comments numbering in the thousands now.  After a couple of our regular commenters wound up in there recently, I started scanning the folder just to make sure I wasn’t deleting someone who didn’t deserve it. Certain lyrical phrases from lengthy spammers popped out [...]

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OUR JUNE GARDEN IN CLOSE-UP

Saving what I have to say to do our weekend in Galena justice.  In the meantime, we came home to lots of growth and activity in the June garden.  I had Pete take some close-up photos for you to enjoy the transition.

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