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Portrait Poems Part 2

AUTHOR AMOK   17 MINUTES AGO
Happy Poetry Friday, Friends! Some quick news, before today's poetry lesson. This week, I found out that my ekphrasti ...

May 16

DEBORAH MAKLOWSKI BLOG   2:47 PM ON THU MAY 17 2012
Our first visit to Woodlawn Manor in Sandy Spring was another gorgeous day, with bright sunshine and mild temps. (I don&rsq ...

May 12

DEBORAH MAKLOWSKI BLOG   2:45 PM ON THU MAY 17 2012
This was our first visit to Brookside Gardens this year, always a popular painting spot. Before I got started, I stopped in ...

May 11

DEBORAH MAKLOWSKI BLOG   2:43 PM ON THU MAY 17 2012
A sunny warm day at Bombay Hook Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. Kim Lordier, a splendid pastelist and teacher, was giving a wo ...

May 5

DEBORAH MAKLOWSKI BLOG   2:41 PM ON THU MAY 17 2012
This was an absolutely beautiful morning at Greenberry Sheep Farm, in western Howard County, on a MAPAPA painting trip. Our ...

May 4

DEBORAH MAKLOWSKI BLOG   2:39 PM ON THU MAY 17 2012
A foggy morning at the Howard County Living Farm Heritage Museum. I haven’t done many misty paintings so I welcomed t ...

Radiolarians

PLAYS WITH NEEDLES   2:06 PM ON THU MAY 17 2012
It seems I can't get enough of couching around lace motifs to add to crazy quilt blocks...I have been searching for shapes ...

Portrait Poems Part 1

AUTHOR AMOK   1:21 PM ON THU MAY 17 2012
One of my students' favorite workshops -- not matter what grade they are in -- is on portrait poems. The backbone of th ...

Special Delivery

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   9:08 PM ON WED MAY 16 2012
ozoni11 posted a photo: Gray Catbird nest building. ...

Gosling Yoga

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   9:08 PM ON WED MAY 16 2012
ozoni11 posted a photo: Canada Gosling ...

Some Good Writing about Acting

THE RED MARGINS   6:42 PM ON TUE MAY 15 2012
In honor of the end of House, Hugh Laurie wrote a column for Entertainment Weekly. He has some great stuff to say about act ...

Three Muses: Lock and Key

A LITTLE COLOR EVERY DAY   5:48 PM ON TUE MAY 15 2012
"Secrets"Image credits: holliewood, altered emporium, graphicsfairy, finecrafted, flickr creative commons (plaisanter). ...

Performance today at HOCO Central Library!

   11:18 AM ON TUE MAY 15 2012
  Misako Ballet Company and Misako Ballet Students will be performing “Invitation to the Ballet” at the Ce ...

Shell-abration

PLAYS WITH NEEDLES   9:45 AM ON TUE MAY 15 2012
The rain is pouring down outside and I'm inside reflecting on shells, sand and surf. The Shell Reflections Collec ...

They're Back...Baltimore Orioles

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   5:31 PM ON MON MAY 14 2012
ozoni11 posted a photo: I'm happy to see several pair of Baltimore Orioles building nests around Wilde Lake. I heard th ...

Set Alight by the Short Story

LITTLE PATUXENT REVIEW   1:50 PM ON MON MAY 14 2012
This is what I wanted to do with my own stories: line up the right words, the precise images, as well as the exact and corr ...

Prompt the Muse #31 - Speculative Writing Prompt

ONE WRITER'S MIND   8:00 AM ON MON MAY 14 2012
Image: Supernova Remnant Your characters have found a boundary before them.  It was not put there int ...

Collage Obsession: Tulips

A LITTLE COLOR EVERY DAY   9:07 PM ON SUN MAY 13 2012
I used an image of tulips provided by Collage Obsession for this challenge. Here's the image provided:And here's my digital ...

Luminous Times (Hold on to Love) – my spiritual jou ...

ON THE ROAD WITH U2   10:00 AM ON SUN MAY 13 2012
Luminous Times (Hold on to Love) is my second favorite U2 song, but I never thought of it in religious terms – until ...

Take a Word: Peacock

A LITTLE COLOR EVERY DAY   7:19 AM ON SUN MAY 13 2012
A fun and unusual theme for "Take a Word" this week: Peacock! This digital collage started with a black and white calligrap ...

Sunday Postcard Art: Steampunk

A LITTLE COLOR EVERY DAY   5:15 PM ON SAT MAY 12 2012
Steampunk is an ever-popular challenge theme! Here's my take on it for this week's SPA challenge. Image credits: graphicsfa ...

State Capitols - Cheyenne, Wyoming - Part !

IMAGES AND MORE   10:47 AM ON SAT MAY 12 2012
Wyoming Capitol in Cheyenne [21 August 2011]Constructed: 1886-1917Architects: David W. GibbsState Admitted to Union: July 1 ...

Atop the Mast...Osprey Attacked By Blue Jay

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   7:13 PM ON FRI MAY 11 2012
ozoni11 posted a photo: I heard an Osprey squealing behind me and turned and looked...30 feet up on the top of the mast ...

On A Back Road

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   7:13 PM ON FRI MAY 11 2012
ozoni11 posted a photo: Pulled my car over on a road near Galesville, Maryland....stuck my trusty Nikon out the window ...

Entry # 62 - "New Beginnings & Once Upon a T ...

JAN BOWMAN WRITER   4:00 PM ON FRI MAY 11 2012
This week I’ve been thinking and reading about beginnings.  Opening lines, whether in a novel or story, carry the ...

Creek...Shady Side, Maryland

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   10:33 AM ON FRI MAY 11 2012
ozoni11 posted a photo: ...

Dinghys

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   10:33 AM ON FRI MAY 11 2012
ozoni11 posted a photo: ...

Teaching Stanzas Part 2

AUTHOR AMOK   12:30 AM ON FRI MAY 11 2012
Happy Poetry Friday! I've been working on opposites poems with the Northfield third graders. Earlier, we did some war ...

Cool Little Spool Tool

PLAYS WITH NEEDLES   3:12 PM ON THU MAY 10 2012
Remember my framing needle friend, Terri, whom I mentioned in my last post and who framed my Breakfast at Tiffany's piece?W ...

Otterly Love

UPLOADS FROM OZONI11   6:57 PM ON WED MAY 9 2012
ozoni11 posted a photo: Tonemapped reworking of a photo I took several years ago ...
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