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Is it Me?

Or are blogs becoming dinosaurs? It seems as if everyone has moved to the frantic single line, one picture twitching frenetic worlds of Twitter, Facebook and all.

I'm as much to blame. Facebook is easy. I can access everyone from old school friends and family around the world to my favourite bloggers and long time internet friends all in one place. It's a lot easier posting one line than an entire, well crafted and thoughtful blog post. It takes longer to read a full blog post.

Is the world speeding up or are we simply a species where the novelty wears off and we move on to the next trend. What will we be doing when Twitter is boring and Facebook is obsolete? Which may be fairly soon, since the recent changes on Facebook are making it as much fun as standing in a busy queue!

Who knows... maybe the next trend will be to buy pretty paper and write real letters for a change. Remember them? Did you ever buy the fancy writing paper simply to own it? I did. I still have some of that. :-) Paper that inspired you simply by its beauty.

Blogging at least had beauty... Twitter and the rest do not.

Book Snatch Interview: Michelle Frost

I've been interviewed about writing, my books and myself.

Book Snatch Interview: Michelle Frost:        

I was born and grew up in Africa. Then I married a Scot and moved to the far North of the world. That colours my writing. The o...

Easter Outings

Last Friday the weather was perfect, so we packed up a picnic and went for a drive into the mountains. We stopped here for our lunch, Loch Laggan.

If you click on the photos you'll get the bigger resolution. :)

There was a beach across the loch.

I took a close up zoom photo, as well.

Here's another view towards Ardverikie Estate. The house is on the far shore, below that mountain.   

Ardverikie was made famous by the TV show "Monarch of the Glen." Here's a photo of the house, from Wikipedia.

There was still a bit of snow on the mountains. We stopped here, along the Spean river, just above the dam.

I made the photos into a panorama. :-) You'll need to click on it to view it properly.

Easter Sunday Blessings

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Thoughful Thursday - Falling Apples

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
 
Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

World's Toughest Job