Category Archives: In the neighborhood

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 4

Posted on April 4, 2024 by Mary Beth Frezon

tree boughs scrape against • the edge of the roof, singing • with low vibrato Continue reading →

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Fixing the Mailbox

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

When I went out with my holiday cards, all zip-sorted and rubberbanded, I noticed that the rivet holding on the mailbox door on one side was gone.
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The Gettysburg Address

Posted on November 19, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. Continue reading →

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Long way ’round back home

Posted on June 3, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

…took the long rambling way back home, stopping a few times to take more photos. Got home and did this, which really didn’t look like any of the clouds specifically but the landscape was pretty close, what there was of it. Continue reading →

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TGIF painting

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

I went out this morning thinking to paint at Hand Hollow. I stopped and finished my coffee there but it was too hot to paint. Listened to the birds awhile and then went home and painted from my porch. I had my bubba packed with ice and a cool beverage. Continue reading →

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