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August 31, 2012 11:42 PM UTC --
Seventy-five years ago today, my Dad was born at home. Grandpa had been a successful architect until he lost his sight to glaucoma. By the time my Dad, the last of 14 children, came along in 1937, the . . .
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August 07, 2012 10:17 PM UTC --
My yard borders a public golf course. There's a thin band of trees between us that acts as a buffer. That's also where I have a cleared area for my compost pile. The trees and vines and plants that . . .
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July 29, 2012 09:58 PM UTC --
I've been trying to get a good shot of a pair of cardinals for about a year. I see him, or I see her, or I see them together when my camera is inside. Today, I sat out back on my sittin' log for about . . .
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July 11, 2012 11:37 PM UTC --
Twenty-eight years ago at my mother’s funeral, as my three sisters and I gathered around our grandparents, Nanny asked, “Who’s going to take care of us now?” We all replied, . . .
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May 13, 2012 10:34 PM UTC --
Yesterday, I took Nanny, my daughter Daisy, and my niece Lauren to visit my daughter Amy. It's about a 2 hour drive and we stopped for gas in Virginia because it's 20 cents cheaper per gallon than here . . .
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April 28, 2012 11:54 PM UTC --
My grandmother lives with me. I quit my job at the end of 2011 so I could be her full-time caretaker. We have hospice services and they provide an aide for two hours twice a week so I can get . . .
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April 18, 2012 10:27 PM UTC --
Every morning, after helping her dress, I wheel Nanny to the kitchen table. She's relatively healthy, so she doesn't need too much medication. I put her pills on a folded paper towel and she takes them . . .
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April 14, 2012 09:26 PM UTC --
Me: "I was watching a rabbit in the backyard . I have peas in the garden. I hope he stays out of it."
Nanny: Jaw drops, horrified look.
Me: "What? Are you okay?"
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March 12, 2012 11:03 PM UTC --
I try to get outside everyday with my camera, no matter what the weather may be like. My favorite subjects are the birds that frequent my backyard. My daughter calls me the "bird stalker!"
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September 24, 2011 08:47 PM UTC --
We're a few minutes into the WVU Mountaineers/LSU Tigers game when Nanny says, "They must plan on playing rough. They're all wearing hardhats."
I yelled, "NO!" when the Mountaineers . . .
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September 20, 2011 10:23 PM UTC --
We had just watched Local on the 8's on The Weather Channel when an episode of Storm Stories started. The segment started with images of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico. Nanny asked me where . . .
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September 09, 2011 12:37 AM UTC --
Going through things at our grandmother's house, my sister came across this old photograph. It was framed and coated in generations of dust, hidden away and forgotten in a built-in wall cupboard. Nanny . . .
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June 05, 2011 11:48 PM UTC --
Imagine, if you will, a short, hobbit-shaped woman scrambling out into a violent hailstorm with all the large containers she can find to slop around in the mud covering vegetable plants.
That . . .
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June 01, 2011 12:40 AM UTC --
I saw this bird in the woods behind my yard and got a couple of pictures. I really couldn't see what it looked like until I looked at it on the computer. I thought it might be a young robin and did . . .
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May 30, 2011 11:39 PM UTC --
My daughter took this series of photos Friday, May 27, while I was driving. We had planned to leave for a weekend at my grandmother's in Frederick, MD as soon as I got home from work, but a storm hit . . .
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March 20, 2011 12:16 AM UTC --
My daughter, Daisy, and I stopped at Cool Springs Park near Rowlesburg, West Virginia today. I hadn't been there in years but it hasn't changed much, except for the addition of some animals.
The road . . .
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January 27, 2011 01:58 PM UTC --
I was a Youth Conservation Corps member in the summers of 1976 and 1977. I was a farm girl, loved being outside, and was looking for something to do that would make a difference. A high school counselor . . .
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January 02, 2011 01:53 PM UTC --
This is a project my daughter did for her 8th grade social studies class.
The Life Of Clementeen Lorraine Layman
Clementeen Lorraine Layman was born May 5, 1919. She was the only . . .
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July 29, 2010 02:13 AM UTC --
Last summer, my three younger sisters treated my kids and me to a few days at Lost River State Park in West Virginia for my 50th birthday. This year, we all met at Cass, West Virginia for a few days. . . .
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April 25, 2010 08:30 PM UTC --
My 12 year old daughter raced outside with my camera following a thunderstorm about 2 hours ago. When she came back, she showed me the pictures she had taken. When I asked why she hadn't told me there . . .
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Ann K.
West Virginia
He who knows he has enough, is rich.
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