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10 hours ago
2 min

A Brief Interruption Of my Winter Childhood Memories

Saturday I went down to the Hiawassee Nature Preserve to photograph Sandhill Cranes and other birds who winter over in that location. It...

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Betty Girardeau

a day ago
1 min

The Snowsuit Saga Part 2

After having to wear the ugly brown boy's snowsuit for several winters, Mother finally bought me a girl's snow suit. It was two-toned re...

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Betty Girardeau

2 days ago
2 min

The Snowsuit Saga

Remember that cute little coat, hat, and knee high boots that I was wearing in yesterday's blog picture? The following winter my Mother w...

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Betty Girardeau

3 days ago
2 min

I Still Love Snow

I think this picture was taken of me in the winter of 1947, a particularly harsh winter throughout the northern hemisphere. The blizzard...

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Betty Girardeau

4 days ago
2 min

There Is Strength In Words

I did watch all of the inauguration yesterday. Like much of what has happened in the last year, it was unlike any others that I have wa...

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Betty Girardeau

5 days ago
1 min

New Beginnings

January 20 for me will forever be a day embodied by a sense of new beginnings. Four years ago today, almost at the same hour in which I...

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Betty Girardeau

6 days ago
1 min

Some Days It Is Just More Fun To Play

I don't particularly like the month of January, despite the fact that it is supposed to be considered the month of new beginnings. It a...

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Betty Girardeau

Jan 18
3 min

Keeping Company

I don't ever want to have to live alone. Even in college when I could not have a four footed companion, I did have a live plant. But, o...

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Betty Girardeau

Jan 17
2 min

Peace

I think there is something uniquely special about dusk. To me there is a sense of peace that is unmatched by any other time of the day. ...

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Betty Girardeau

Jan 16
2 min

Thank You

Yesterday's mail brought thank you notes from both of my Granddaughters. I was pleased that they were being taught to do this. Sometime...

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Betty Girardeau

Jan 15
2 min

Happy Birthday, Dad

Today my Dad would have celebrated his 112 birthday. How could that be? In my mind and memory I tend to remember him as he was about th...

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A Splash of Red Against A Wintry Backdrop

Betty Girardeau

Jan 14
2 min

A Splash of Red Against A Wintry Backdrop

While I enjoy watching all kinds of birds, there is something special about male Cardinals, especially in the winter when so many of the ...

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Betty Girardeau

Jan 13
2 min

For the Birds

One of the things that I really miss now that I am using my husband's old upstairs office is the view I used to have from my old office/w...

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Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Heat, Nor Gloom...

Betty Girardeau

Jan 12
3 min

Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Heat, Nor Gloom...

There is no question that the Covid-19 pandemic has wrecked havoc on every aspect of our daily lives. Each of us has tried to find comf...

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Betty Girardeau

Jan 11
3 min

Let's Talk

This isn't my favorite of the shots that I took on Saturday with my new Lensbaby lens, but I really do like the story that I think it tel...

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Betty Girardeau

Jan 10
2 min

Finally Some Time To Play

Christmas was just a little over two weeks ago, but if seems so much longer ago. Our world has been picked up and shaken again with the ...

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Betty Girardeau

Jan 9
2 min

I Have Seen The Light

I try not to use the same picture more than once for these blogs, but today I really felt the need to do so. I did practice what I preac...

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Betty Girardeau

Jan 8
2 min

Lost In The Fog

I wonder how many of us after the happenings in our nation's capital on Wednesday feel lost? What can we believe? Who can we believe? ...

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"O Say, Does That Star Spangled Banner Yet Wave..." ?

Betty Girardeau

Jan 7
2 min

"O Say, Does That Star Spangled Banner Yet Wave..." ?

I have a "USA Today" app on my iPhone and get notifications when some new important news has just happened. I was horrified yesterday whe...

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Betty Girardeau

Jan 6
1 min

What Do You Dream?

We all have them, dreams. I don't mean the ones we might have while sleeping right now. I am referring to those we have while waking. ...

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