Tag: acatherinenoon

  • The Trouble with Tigers

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    The challenge with big cats is that they sleep twenty hours a day.  Take this fellow for instance, the Amur Tiger.  He\’s sleeping.

    A lot.

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    He\’s also not the most friendly beast on the planet.  One of our visits, the zookeeper told us that he bit off his daughter\’s tail and killed his son, so they\’re obviously never on display at the same time.  I can\’t see closely enough to tell if this is the papa with tail or the daughter without, and he didn\’t get up to wander around on our visit.

    One amusing tidbit is that one visit while we were watching him, the tram went by.  The tram tours are narrated by the driver, and this particular driver had a heavy Southern accent.  He described this tiger as the \”Armor\” Tiger instead of Amur Tiger.

    Sorry today\’s post is tardy (another T word – hey!), this cold is kicking my butt.  I hope to get back on track tomorrow.  Sleep well!

    Thank you for joining me for the A-Z Blog Challenge.  If you’re blogging in the challenge, please leave me a link so I can come visit you too.  If you have a moment, please check out these other fine blogs:

    My theme on my Knoontime Knitting craft blog is Letterforms In Nature and the Built Environment.  I’ll be exploring my daily round, looking for shapes in the natural world and build environment.

    The theme at Noon & Wilder is The A To Z of Chicago.  Since I live here in the city and we have our Chicagoland Shifters based here, I figured I’d share a window into the city, Noon & Wilder style.

    The Nice Girls Writing Naughty have a new home, and we’re blogging in the challenge again this year.  Throughout the month you’ll be hearing from each of the Nice Girls, and during the RT Booklovers Convention from April 12th to the 17th, you’ll be getting live convention reports.  Join the conversation!

    The Writer Zen Garden’s brand new website is up and running, and we’re bringing you posts from me, Noony; my partner in crime, Rachel Wilder (the Wilder half of Noon & Wilder); the talented Darla M. Sands – a blogger in her own right, see below; as well as Grace Kahlo, Evey Brown, and author Tina Holland.  Check it out!

    My friends who are participating in the challenge (and if you’re not on this list, tell me and I’ll add you!):

    Write on, and Happy Blogging!

  • Look Up, Young Man!

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    I like signs, and I\’ve taken snaps of these little ones before.  They\’ve always spoken to me because of their size and content.  Not sure why.

    Losing a little momentum due to this cold of mine, so today\’s post is late.  Tomorrow is the letter U, which is for…  well, you\’ll have to wait and see!

    My theme here at my Knoontime Knitting craft blog is Letterforms In Nature and the Built Environment.

     

    Thank you for joining me for the A-Z Blog Challenge.  If you’re blogging in the challenge, please leave me a link so I can come visit you too.  If you have a moment, please check out these other fine blogs:

    The theme on my main blog, Explore the Worlds of A. Catherine Noon, is The A To Z of the Zoo.  Join me as I explore Brookfield Zoo and finds animals, birds, and insects from A to Z.

    The theme at Noon & Wilder is The A To Z of Chicago.  Since I live here in the city and we have our Chicagoland Shifters based here, I figured I’d share a window into the city, Noon & Wilder style.

    The Nice Girls Writing Naughty have a new home, and we’re blogging in the challenge again this year.  Throughout the month you’ll be hearing from each of the Nice Girls, and during the RT Booklovers Convention from April 12th to the 17th, you’ll be getting live convention reports.  Join the conversation!

    The Writer Zen Garden’s brand new website is up and running, and we’re bringing you posts from me, Noony; my partner in crime, Rachel Wilder (the Wilder half of Noon & Wilder); the talented Darla M. Sands – a blogger in her own right, see below; as well as Grace Kahlo, Evey Brown, and author Tina Holland.  Check it out!

    My friends who are participating in the challenge (and if you’re not on this list, tell me and I’ll add you!):

    Write on, and Happy Blogging!

  • Been Waiting ALL Month For This!

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    And this, my Dear Reader, is Sarani, the queen snow leopard of the Brookfield Zoo.  Last year, she gave birth to two female cubs, Malaya and Daania.  I love watching these majestic animals, and the viewing glass lets me be near enough to practically touch them.

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    One of our visits in December, we found all three of them curled up on each other.  Sarani\’s resting her head on one of her daughters, which is exactly how my cats sleep at home.

    And I was a little started to see I\’d taken over 100 shots of them on just one visit!  I picked my favorites for you today:

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    Malaya and Daania wandering around, sniffing things.

    My cats do this all the time.

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    Busted!

    Um…  I\’ll just stand here and look at the… log!  I\’ll look at the log, not the large predatory cat that just caught me spying…

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    Look closely at this one.  The cub is curled up on TOP of Mamma\’s tail. o.O…

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    Hunting!  My cats do this exact same thing.  \”What izzit?  Can I jump that high?  I wanna catch it.  I think I\’ll catch it.  Is anybody watching me?  No?  Go!\”

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    \”Wait…  I\’d better check and see if I can climb up there first.\”  …  \”Nope.  Can\’t climb that.  Is anybody watching?  Go!\”

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    Boing!

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    Pounce!

    Turns out, somebody was watching.

    I meant to do that.

    Uh-huh.

    Cats.

    🙂

    Tomorrow, it\’s T for pTerasaur!

    No, of course not, those are extinct.  Must be a typo.  Now what did I pick for T? Hmm…

     

    Thank you for joining me for the A-Z Blog Challenge.  If you’re blogging in the challenge, please leave me a link so I can come visit you too.  If you have a moment, please check out these other fine blogs:

    My theme on my Knoontime Knitting craft blog is Letterforms In Nature and the Built Environment.  I’ll be exploring my daily round, looking for shapes in the natural world and build environment.

    The theme at Noon & Wilder is The A To Z of Chicago.  Since I live here in the city and we have our Chicagoland Shifters based here, I figured I’d share a window into the city, Noon & Wilder style.

    The Nice Girls Writing Naughty have a new home, and we’re blogging in the challenge again this year.  Throughout the month you’ll be hearing from each of the Nice Girls, and during the RT Booklovers Convention from April 12th to the 17th, you’ll be getting live convention reports.  Join the conversation!

    The Writer Zen Garden’s brand new website is up and running, and we’re bringing you posts from me, Noony; my partner in crime, Rachel Wilder (the Wilder half of Noon & Wilder); the talented Darla M. Sands – a blogger in her own right, see below; as well as Grace Kahlo, Evey Brown, and author Tina Holland.  Check it out!

    My friends who are participating in the challenge (and if you’re not on this list, tell me and I’ll add you!):

    Write on, and Happy Blogging!

  • A Bit of a Stretch…

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    You like how I did that with the title?  \”S\”tretch?  🙂

    If you look closely and use your imagination, you can see the \”S\” in the fence links.

    I had a heck of a time finding an S in a tree branch, and I have a cold, so I defaulted to my trusty fence.

    T is much easier.  I found several possibilities, but you\’ll have to wait \’til tomorrow to see.

    My theme here at my Knoontime Knitting craft blog is Letterforms In Nature and the Built Environment.

     

    Thank you for joining me for the A-Z Blog Challenge.  If you’re blogging in the challenge, please leave me a link so I can come visit you too.  If you have a moment, please check out these other fine blogs:

    The theme on my main blog, Explore the Worlds of A. Catherine Noon, is The A To Z of the Zoo.  Join me as I explore Brookfield Zoo and finds animals, birds, and insects from A to Z.

    The theme at Noon & Wilder is The A To Z of Chicago.  Since I live here in the city and we have our Chicagoland Shifters based here, I figured I’d share a window into the city, Noon & Wilder style.

    The Nice Girls Writing Naughty have a new home, and we’re blogging in the challenge again this year.  Throughout the month you’ll be hearing from each of the Nice Girls, and during the RT Booklovers Convention from April 12th to the 17th, you’ll be getting live convention reports.  Join the conversation!

    The Writer Zen Garden’s brand new website is up and running, and we’re bringing you posts from me, Noony; my partner in crime, Rachel Wilder (the Wilder half of Noon & Wilder); the talented Darla M. Sands – a blogger in her own right, see below; as well as Grace Kahlo, Evey Brown, and author Tina Holland.  Check it out!

    My friends who are participating in the challenge (and if you’re not on this list, tell me and I’ll add you!):

    Write on, and Happy Blogging!

  • Six Inch Thick Skin

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    Many years ago, when I was just a lass, I met a wonderful woman who was a Sales Director with Mary Kay Cosmetics.  She changed my life.  Her mascot, she said, was the rhinoceros, because their skin is six inches thick – and we all need thick skin when we build our dreams.

    In researching for this post, I think that statement is apocryphal; most of the sources I found say between 1 and 5 cm (centimeters) thick, which is thinner than six inches but still quite strong.  Some people apparently believe it\’s actually bullet-proof, though I wouldn\’t want to test that theory.

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    I believe this one is female, but I can\’t find it in my notes so I\’m not sure.  When we visited, s/he wandered around her/is enclosure, occasionally nibbling stuff but mostly roaming.

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    Then s/he looked right at me.

    Gulp.

    I love their ears.  Fuzzy.  Makes me want to…

    Yes.  I know.  Pet them.  I want to pet everything.

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    Okay.  Maybe not everything.

    Tomorrow, it\’s one of my favorite aminals in the whole zoo!!  It\’s S for…

    Well, you\’ll just hafta wait and see, won\’tcha?

    Thank you for joining me for the A-Z Blog Challenge.  If you’re blogging in the challenge, please leave me a link so I can come visit you too.  If you have a moment, please check out these other fine blogs:

    My theme on my Knoontime Knitting craft blog is Letterforms In Nature and the Built Environment.  I’ll be exploring my daily round, looking for shapes in the natural world and build environment.

    The theme at Noon & Wilder is The A To Z of Chicago.  Since I live here in the city and we have our Chicagoland Shifters based here, I figured I’d share a window into the city, Noon & Wilder style.

    The Nice Girls Writing Naughty have a new home, and we’re blogging in the challenge again this year.  Throughout the month you’ll be hearing from each of the Nice Girls, and during the RT Booklovers Convention from April 12th to the 17th, you’ll be getting live convention reports.  Join the conversation!

    The Writer Zen Garden’s brand new website is up and running, and we’re bringing you posts from me, Noony; my partner in crime, Rachel Wilder (the Wilder half of Noon & Wilder); the talented Darla M. Sands – a blogger in her own right, see below; as well as Grace Kahlo, Evey Brown, and author Tina Holland.  Check it out!

    My friends who are participating in the challenge (and if you’re not on this list, tell me and I’ll add you!):

    Write on, and Happy Blogging!

  • Lowercase

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    I walk by these every day and didn\’t see them, really see them, until today.

    Which figures, because the sky is all getting ready to storm and makes the shot look black and white.

    Which is kind of fitting today, I suppose.  Rrrrright?

    Right.

    My theme here at my Knoontime Knitting craft blog is Letterforms In Nature and the Built Environment.

     

    Thank you for joining me for the A-Z Blog Challenge.  If you’re blogging in the challenge, please leave me a link so I can come visit you too.  If you have a moment, please check out these other fine blogs:

    The theme on my main blog, Explore the Worlds of A. Catherine Noon, is The A To Z of the Zoo.  Join me as I explore Brookfield Zoo and finds animals, birds, and insects from A to Z.

    The theme at Noon & Wilder is The A To Z of Chicago.  Since I live here in the city and we have our Chicagoland Shifters based here, I figured I’d share a window into the city, Noon & Wilder style.

    The Nice Girls Writing Naughty have a new home, and we’re blogging in the challenge again this year.  Throughout the month you’ll be hearing from each of the Nice Girls, and during the RT Booklovers Convention from April 12th to the 17th, you’ll be getting live convention reports.  Join the conversation!

    The Writer Zen Garden’s brand new website is up and running, and we’re bringing you posts from me, Noony; my partner in crime, Rachel Wilder (the Wilder half of Noon & Wilder); the talented Darla M. Sands – a blogger in her own right, see below; as well as Grace Kahlo, Evey Brown, and author Tina Holland.  Check it out!

    My friends who are participating in the challenge (and if you’re not on this list, tell me and I’ll add you!):

    Write on, and Happy Blogging!

  • Quotidian

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    Okay, I agree, this is a stretch, but do you have any idea how hard it is to find branches that grow downward?

    The plant with the large spatulate leaves is a rubber plant, which is where we got \”chicle\” from, or natural gum.

    My theme here at my Knoontime Knitting craft blog is Letterforms In Nature and the Built Environment.

     

    Thank you for joining me for the A-Z Blog Challenge.  If you’re blogging in the challenge, please leave me a link so I can come visit you too.  If you have a moment, please check out these other fine blogs:

    The theme on my main blog, Explore the Worlds of A. Catherine Noon, is The A To Z of the Zoo.  Join me as I explore Brookfield Zoo and finds animals, birds, and insects from A to Z.

    The theme at Noon & Wilder is The A To Z of Chicago.  Since I live here in the city and we have our Chicagoland Shifters based here, I figured I’d share a window into the city, Noon & Wilder style.

    The Nice Girls Writing Naughty have a new home, and we’re blogging in the challenge again this year.  Throughout the month you’ll be hearing from each of the Nice Girls, and during the RT Booklovers Convention from April 12th to the 17th, you’ll be getting live convention reports.  Join the conversation!

    The Writer Zen Garden’s brand new website is up and running, and we’re bringing you posts from me, Noony; my partner in crime, Rachel Wilder (the Wilder half of Noon & Wilder); the talented Darla M. Sands – a blogger in her own right, see below; as well as Grace Kahlo, Evey Brown, and author Tina Holland.  Check it out!

    My friends who are participating in the challenge (and if you’re not on this list, tell me and I’ll add you!):

    Write on, and Happy Blogging!

  • The Q Files

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    I was unsuccessful finding a Q animal at Brookfield, though I did find a species of Quail – but was so focused on the Jambu Fruit Dove that wasn\’t, I missed that those quail were Q and already posted them! ~fail~  (Which, when you think about it, rhymes with \”quail,\” so, really, it was inevitable.)

    This one made me chuckle because the main character in the first two novels of our Persis Chronicles series is named Quill, and this little fellow is covered in Quills, so there you go.

    It\’s even pertinent to my books, so there.  Take that, Q!

    But only one problem:  this is the only picture that turned out of my shy little quilled friend.  The lighting is very dark because he\’s a night dweller, so my camera just gave up on me.  Not to be deterred, I have some awesome shots of –

    The Argus Monitor

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    All monitors are Varanids, or family Veranidae.  Remember high school biology?  \”Knights play chess on fine-grained sand,\” or Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.  Unfortunately, scientists redid all the taxonomy, (taxonomy is the science of classifying species), so all the stuff I learned is now out of date.  Which annoys me, but is a story for another day.  Getting back to Mister Argus, here.

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    Veranids are my husband\’s favorite of the herps and he interacted with this one while I was photographing him.

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    As monitors go, this is a pretty large one.  The sobering thing to realize, is most of his head is mouth.  That jaw opens up for a good three inches or more and is all teeth.

    o.O…

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    In this one, you can get an idea of his size.  Monitors are about half body and half tail, and they can use their tails as defensive weapons.  This monitor is about five feet long, for example.  Most of them are captive-bread due to their diminishing population in the wild.

    The most common kind of monitor, and one you might recognize, is the Komodo dragon; those get up to ten or fifteen feet long and weigh as much as three-hundred fifty pounds.  It\’s illegal to have them as pets and one must have direct permission from the government of Indonesia to own one or exhibit one in a zoo.  Chicago was privileged to have on on display at the Shedd Aquarium a couple years ago and we went with the Chicago Herpetological Society for a behind-the-scenes experience and to watch him get fed.

    Any doubts you may have as to whether these animals are fast under the right circumstances were dispelled by watching him go after the food.  Scary stuff.

    Tomorrow it\’s R.  Rrrrr.  RRRRRRrrrr.  rrrRRRRRRRR!

    Thank you for joining me for the A-Z Blog Challenge.  If you’re blogging in the challenge, please leave me a link so I can come visit you too.  If you have a moment, please check out these other fine blogs:

    My theme on my Knoontime Knitting craft blog is Letterforms In Nature and the Built Environment.  I’ll be exploring my daily round, looking for shapes in the natural world and build environment.

    The theme at Noon & Wilder is The A To Z of Chicago.  Since I live here in the city and we have our Chicagoland Shifters based here, I figured I’d share a window into the city, Noon & Wilder style.

    The Nice Girls Writing Naughty have a new home, and we’re blogging in the challenge again this year.  Throughout the month you’ll be hearing from each of the Nice Girls, and during the RT Booklovers Convention from April 12th to the 17th, you’ll be getting live convention reports.  Join the conversation!

    The Writer Zen Garden’s brand new website is up and running, and we’re bringing you posts from me, Noony; my partner in crime, Rachel Wilder (the Wilder half of Noon & Wilder); the talented Darla M. Sands – a blogger in her own right, see below; as well as Grace Kahlo, Evey Brown, and author Tina Holland.  Check it out!

    My friends who are participating in the challenge (and if you’re not on this list, tell me and I’ll add you!):

    Write on, and Happy Blogging!

  • Poussez, Tirez

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    When I was young, I studied French.  One of the sets of stickers we had for the house was \”Poussez,\” for one side of the door, and \”Tirez,\” for the other.  They are pronounced POO-say and TEA-ray.  For some reason, those are two French words that I remember, to this day.

    The other day when I was on a different bus from my usual route, I looked up and saw a P above me.  Voila.

    C\’est fini.

    Tres bien.

    🙂

    My theme here at my Knoontime Knitting craft blog is Letterforms In Nature and the Built Environment.

     

    Thank you for joining me for the A-Z Blog Challenge.  If you’re blogging in the challenge, please leave me a link so I can come visit you too.  If you have a moment, please check out these other fine blogs:

    The theme on my main blog, Explore the Worlds of A. Catherine Noon, is The A To Z of the Zoo.  Join me as I explore Brookfield Zoo and finds animals, birds, and insects from A to Z.

    The theme at Noon & Wilder is The A To Z of Chicago.  Since I live here in the city and we have our Chicagoland Shifters based here, I figured I’d share a window into the city, Noon & Wilder style.

    The Nice Girls Writing Naughty have a new home, and we’re blogging in the challenge again this year.  Throughout the month you’ll be hearing from each of the Nice Girls, and during the RT Booklovers Convention from April 12th to the 17th, you’ll be getting live convention reports.  Join the conversation!

    The Writer Zen Garden’s brand new website is up and running, and we’re bringing you posts from me, Noony; my partner in crime, Rachel Wilder (the Wilder half of Noon & Wilder); the talented Darla M. Sands – a blogger in her own right, see below; as well as Grace Kahlo, Evey Brown, and author Tina Holland.  Check it out!

    My friends who are participating in the challenge (and if you’re not on this list, tell me and I’ll add you!):

    Write on, and Happy Blogging!

  • So Many P\’s, So Little Time

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    Those of you who\’ve been with me awhile know I adore peacocks.  I have peacock jewelry, bags, blouses, needlepoint, latch hooked rugs, and lots and lots of pictures from the zoo of the peacocks that wander around loose.

    But.

    This penguin touched my heart.

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    We went to the zoo in December with our good friend E…, and he adores penguins.  He even suggested we go to the penguin house, but I had never heard of it.  I thought I had seen all there was to see at the zoo, but he confidently lead us right to a building, through a winding hallway, to this awesome little reef filled with denizens of the arctic.

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    They\’re really cute, too.  Sure, I\’ll post pictures of my favorite noisy majestic peacocks, and still try to convince my husband they make good pets (\”They scream like a woman in pain!\”  \”But they\’re PRETTY!\”  \”They\’re loud!\” \”But they\’re PRETTY!\”  \”They\’re not particularly friendly!\”  \”But they\’re PRETTY!\”) and therefore, I\’ll have more pictures of my favorite fowl for you on these pages.

    But for today, P is for Penguin.

    Tomorrow, you get to find out what I picked for \”Q.\”

    Thank you for joining me for the A-Z Blog Challenge.  If you’re blogging in the challenge, please leave me a link so I can come visit you too.  If you have a moment, please check out these other fine blogs:

    My theme on my Knoontime Knitting craft blog is Letterforms In Nature and the Built Environment.  I’ll be exploring my daily round, looking for shapes in the natural world and build environment.

    The theme at Noon & Wilder is The A To Z of Chicago.  Since I live here in the city and we have our Chicagoland Shifters based here, I figured I’d share a window into the city, Noon & Wilder style.

    The Nice Girls Writing Naughty have a new home, and we’re blogging in the challenge again this year.  Throughout the month you’ll be hearing from each of the Nice Girls, and during the RT Booklovers Convention from April 12th to the 17th, you’ll be getting live convention reports.  Join the conversation!

    The Writer Zen Garden’s brand new website is up and running, and we’re bringing you posts from me, Noony; my partner in crime, Rachel Wilder (the Wilder half of Noon & Wilder); the talented Darla M. Sands – a blogger in her own right, see below; as well as Grace Kahlo, Evey Brown, and author Tina Holland.  Check it out!

    My friends who are participating in the challenge (and if you’re not on this list, tell me and I’ll add you!):

    Write on, and Happy Blogging!

  • O Say, Can You See?

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    I love the way the light hit the tree in this one, and I lucked out that it also fit my theme.

    My theme here at my Knoontime Knitting craft blog is Letterforms In Nature and the Built Environment.

     

    Thank you for joining me for the A-Z Blog Challenge.  If you’re blogging in the challenge, please leave me a link so I can come visit you too.  If you have a moment, please check out these other fine blogs:

    The theme on my main blog, Explore the Worlds of A. Catherine Noon, is The A To Z of the Zoo.  Join me as I explore Brookfield Zoo and finds animals, birds, and insects from A to Z.

    The theme at Noon & Wilder is The A To Z of Chicago.  Since I live here in the city and we have our Chicagoland Shifters based here, I figured I’d share a window into the city, Noon & Wilder style.

    The Nice Girls Writing Naughty have a new home, and we’re blogging in the challenge again this year.  Throughout the month you’ll be hearing from each of the Nice Girls, and during the RT Booklovers Convention from April 12th to the 17th, you’ll be getting live convention reports.  Join the conversation!

    The Writer Zen Garden’s brand new website is up and running, and we’re bringing you posts from me, Noony; my partner in crime, Rachel Wilder (the Wilder half of Noon & Wilder); the talented Darla M. Sands – a blogger in her own right, see below; as well as Grace Kahlo, Evey Brown, and author Tina Holland.  Check it out!

    My friends who are participating in the challenge (and if you’re not on this list, tell me and I’ll add you!):

    Write on, and Happy Blogging!

  • The Secret Forest-Dweller

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    This shy fellow is a forest-dwelling creature called an okapi.  From central Africa, they resemble a zebra crossed with a giraffe and are about the size of a tall but skinny horse.

    They also have long, skinny black tongues.

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    I\’m disappointed because I can\’t find the series of photographs I took of the mother with a newborn, nor the ones of a single okapi over in the holding area in the back corner of the zoo.  However, on this particular day when we visited, I had my cell phone camera with me.  When we came into the building where the okapi live, there was a volunteer zookeeper there doing some research.  She told us that this okapi had been orphaned and was hand-raised by the zoo.  He will not be able to go back into the wild.

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    I thought he was going to go back into his paddock, so I turned away to talk to the zookeeper.  Then my husband softly said, \”Honey.\”

    I turned back to find that the okapi isn\’t just shy, but also curious.  Unfortunately, I jiggled my camera when I tried to be sneaky about bringing it up to snap his photo.

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    He moved his head when I took the shot, so he\’s blurry, but you can see his striped legs.  Skinny little legs, aren\’t they?

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    Squirmy little bugger, too.  He reached up to see what was up above in the enclosure, so all I got was his ear.  Phooey.

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    He decided to wander back inside, and I got this picture of his back and ears in the light.  He has a lovely coat, like a bay horse but with giant satellite ears.

    And yeah, I wanna pet him.  🙂

    Thank you for joining me for the A-Z Blog Challenge.  If you’re blogging in the challenge, please leave me a link so I can come visit you too.  If you have a moment, please check out these other fine blogs:

    My theme on my Knoontime Knitting craft blog is Letterforms In Nature and the Built Environment.  I’ll be exploring my daily round, looking for shapes in the natural world and build environment.

    The theme at Noon & Wilder is The A To Z of Chicago.  Since I live here in the city and we have our Chicagoland Shifters based here, I figured I’d share a window into the city, Noon & Wilder style.

    The Nice Girls Writing Naughty have a new home, and we’re blogging in the challenge again this year.  Throughout the month you’ll be hearing from each of the Nice Girls, and during the RT Booklovers Convention from April 12th to the 17th, you’ll be getting live convention reports.  Join the conversation!

    The Writer Zen Garden’s brand new website is up and running, and we’re bringing you posts from me, Noony; my partner in crime, Rachel Wilder (the Wilder half of Noon & Wilder); the talented Darla M. Sands – a blogger in her own right, see below; as well as Grace Kahlo, Evey Brown, and author Tina Holland.  Check it out!

    My friends who are participating in the challenge (and if you’re not on this list, tell me and I’ll add you!):

    Write on, and Happy Blogging!