Archive for July, 2007

The End of the Quest

The End of the Quest
by Sir Frank Dicksee
Sir Frank Dicksee is one of my favorite painters, and his work “The End of the Quest” is one of my favorite paintings. It truly is worth a thousand words, and more! The faces of the man and woman seem to hint at a long and beautiful love [...]

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Photo by Dad, edited by Me.

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Avatars

It’s so much fun to mess around with old paintings, creating desktop backgrounds, birthday cards, web banners, etc. Lately, I’ve been noticing that the “big thing” online is the Avatar–a little 100 x 100-pixel graphic that goes with your screen name on blogs and message forums. I’ve made a couple for my own use, but [...]

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Blueberry Pie

 
Yesterday afternoon, just after Dad arrived home from work, a much-appreciated rainshower settled the dust on the dirt roads–perfect weather for a four-wheeler ride! After the supper clean-up, we headed out. Can you believe we almost forgot to bring buckets for gathering wild blueberries? Here in Minnesota, July is the month the delicious pea-sized berries [...]

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