Back On The Porch

My heart is a chameleon...today it is blue...soaring with the hawk...up high, way above the tree tops, near the clear blue sky....calling to the wind, calling "Come wind, come lift me higher!" Li...

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~ Momma? I'm busy! What do you want? Nothing. Ever. ~ Mommy? Yes honey? Laptime story. Bread burns. Oh well. ~ Rocky waits at the door. I come home soon. ~ Rocky waits at the door. I come home...

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Don't know who they are nor where they are, I just know they are the best of friends. And while walking on a beach somewhere, in a time past, they are sharing memories, telling funny stories...

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My father-in-law turned 98 today. He was totally blinded in both eyes by two different coal mining cave-ins some 56 years ago. Despite this "handicap" he was able to support his family by farmin...

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Recently, while prowling through a local thrift store, I found this great little vintage 'Cooky Book' and decided it will be well worth my time to try out some, if not all, of the recipes. F...

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New Neighbors Moving In? If all the beast were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man...Chief Seattle This Red Wolf ...

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Today, as has been the case in the many days passed, I promised myself to start blogging again. No matter who or what is hollering, "Me Next!" the loudest. And so here I am, in our home office...

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Remember the Andy Griffith Show episode where a stranger comes to town and seems to know too much about the town folk? He goes around Mayberry with an ear-to-ear grin speaking to everyone by fir...

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Country store porches were once an important part of community life. People gathered there to catch up on the latest gossip - how the crops were fairing; did sister have her baby yet; who passe...

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We have lost a dear friend who enriched our lives for 15 years. Her passing has left a huge hole in our hearts.

http://backontheporch.blogspot.com/2010/09/very-sad-time-for-our-family.html

This old panoramic photograph belonged to my daddy and it has always fascinated me, as it did him. We have tried for years to figure out the story behind this (coal mining?) settlement. It remai...

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Gwendolyn Brooks was the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first black woman to hold the position of poetry consultant to the Library of Congress - this in addition to being c...

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GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000) Photo by Di Pugh While attending Roane State Community College (1983-85) I was privileged to meet and photograph Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. As a budding ...

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Working miracles on old photos is usually a welcome challenge, but "doctoring" the following two images may be an impossible task. The environment has been unkind to them - water stains, dirt s...

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"This was taken when we were up in Billings. Sister Emma is holding Baby. Last Sunday Mr. Chaffee took some Kodak pictures of Ralph and Baby and Baby alone. Hope they will be good. Sister Mair...

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This photograph is from my personal collection of vintage black and white prints and one of my favorite "porch pictures". As is true with many of the images in my collection, I do not know the...

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The little house where I lived as a child had a good front porch - not large, not railed, not even painted white - just plain boards nailed on a wooden frame. It was not spacious and grand like t...

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What do you do with the trash when the neighborhood is full of hungry stray dogs? That's easy. You put it on the porch. Way up on the porch! And why is all that other stuff out in the yard? ...

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Wanda Reed is a very special new friend who has given me the greatest gifts of all...inspiration, hope and kindness. We met at the health center where she works and where I have been going, tr...

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ADA & LARKIN WERE "GRANDPA & GRANDMA" TO ME When I was a little girl I sometimes spent the summer months with my mother's parents in Madisonville, Tennessee. Grandpa and Grandma lived a h...

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There was an handmade, split white oak egg basket that always sat on my Grandma's ironing board in the spare bedroom where I slept during childhood visits to her and Grandpa's Monroe County home ...

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I like dogs. I am a dog person. Cats don't like me usually and usually I don't like them much either. I do respect them however. Over these hundreds of years while humans have attempted to tam...

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From our back porch… We see the sun pouring through the trees in the early morning mist and the shadows stretch across the pasture in the late afternoon. From our back porch… We hear the b...

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