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Archives Most Recent to Oldest: -- A Mother’s Day Message Child’s Crocheted Cardigan Child’s Knitted Beret and Scarf Yaya Chair Obituary: Diane Alane Machado Wilks For My Mama, Everything A Visit from Minerva Bayou Folks July Is the Cruelest Month The Wisdom of Solomon Inspiration: Daffodils Crocheted Baby Blanket for Olive Sugar Plum Fairy Christmas Stocking Louisiana Stuffed Crabs Knitted Child’s Poncho Knitted Duffle Coat Autumnal Abulia Meet a Stranger, Say Goodbye or This Post Has No Photos Ambrosia for the Assumption of Mary Remembering Roman Candy A Lost Shoe on an Ordinary Day A Blizzard, an Afghan, and Other Such Things A Novel Resolution The Journal of Elaine Nicaise, French Creole of Louisiana Closer to the Heart Listen to the Trees, Granddaughter From the Beginning The Tale of Two Kathys All Shall Be Well Burning Memories Winged Easter Bell (Crochet Pattern) Weird Thoughts on Palm Sunday In Memory of America’s Brave The Haunted Brown Palace Hotel, Denver Incarville Revisited An Evening of Music with Greta Van Fleet Socks Meet the Bubbleheads in San Diego Socks Feel at Home in Hudson, Wisconsin Socks Ponder Minneapolis To the Lighthouse – A Story of Thoughts (Book Review) Douté le Sage A Year on the Patchwork Quilt An Advent Calendar House at Last Socks Traipse Around Maastricht, Netherlands Birdsong – Book Review Turquoise Coffee Stop, Chillicothe, Texas Tennessee and Kentucky Beckon to Socks Socks Crisscross Belgium Socks Love Chicago Collégiale St.-Barthélemy, Liège Cathedrals St. Paul and St. Jacques, Liège, Belgium The Last Punisher – Book Review Socks Climb a Mountain in Liège, Belgium Book Review – A Separate Peace In Memory of a Kid Stars and Stripes Crocheted Garland Socks Spend a Weekend in Talladega Where Will They Go? Bon Hiver St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Indianapolis Socks Delight in Christmas in Indianapolis Memories of the Arizona Memorial on Veterans Day Flora of Hawaii – Jewels of the Islands Reserve Starbucks of Waikiki Socks Jump the Pacific and Land in Hawaii Empire of the Summer Moon – Book Review Chatham Speedway Shenanigans Patriots Ride for the Wall Alabama Shakes Shreveport Socks Find a Constant in Detroit, Michigan Naked Tree Artwork in the Detroit People Mover Stations Grandmaw Demoran’s Fudge Socks Mosey over to Oregon Sock Visit Cicely, Alaska, er – Roslyn, Washington Socks Delight in Petit Jean State Park New Orleans Beignets One Perfect Evening My Moonchildren and Coco the Cat Some Stay, Some Go MawMaw’s Southern Collard Greens Hydrangea Memories Fish in Lemon Cream Sauce MawMaw’s Down-Home Green Beans and Potatoes Socks Frolic in Quebec City Tulip Trees, Freak Storm, and Winter Goodbyes Mardi Gras Garland One Yellow Leaf Outside the Window Alice in Chains: the untold story – Book Review Socks Are Lured West by Thoughts of a Girl Gal Pals Across Time Socks Hike to Pensacola Beach, Florida An Evening on Bayou DeSiard 2015 Louisiana H.O.G. Rally – West Monroe, Louisiana From Blizzards to Pear Blossoms Trees Are Sentient Beings Winter Light A Piney Woods Christmas – Jonesboro, Louisiana A Different Thanksgiving – Quinoa Timbales, and That Sort of Thing Sublime Is Autumn The Black Hills and Traveling Socks Building the Boathouse of Life Fallen Trees and Mama's Music Little Girls, Big Dreams, and a Pair of Socks in DeSmet, South Dakota Falling Leaves, Rising Thoughts Socks Experience the Splendor of South Dakota Misty September Morning Socks Tour America's Heartland Ponyboy Curtis, Nausea, and Storm Clouds – Or Being Trapped in the Paradox No-Sugar Pear Butter DIY Purse-Pack Tissue Pouch Christmas in June – Knitted Tree Skirt Letting Mother Nature Have Her Way MawMaw's Blueberry Angel-food Delight My Stellar Step-Up Dad, Solver of Royal Doulton Woes Father's Day Gift Bag A Year in the Life of My River Birch Sue Aikens – Maxims, Adages, and Aphorisms Her Face in the Flowers, Her Eyes in the Dew More Than This Shrimp and Grits Kitschy Easter Eggs Louisiana Easter Basket A Woman Lives Here Strawberry Pie with Lattice Crust Broken Statues and Pigeon Holes No Fear of Home When Winter Greets Spring Mt. Nebo, Arkansas, Friends, and a Pair of Socks Memories of Mardi Gras A Second in the Life DIY Plastic Bag Keeper K is for Kindness – and Knitted Biscuit Bowl Snow on the Bayou Socks Go Native at Tillicum Village, Washington Pain Rustique (Country Bread) The Elegance of Winter Mama's Cheese Grits on the Twelfth Day of Christmas A Welcome Kind of Birthday The Fourth Day of Christmas Margueritte's Christmastime Divinity Soulful Fire Our Life Together on the Christmas Tree Handmade Holiday Ribbons Frosty Contentment Thankful for Little Houses New Orleans Lost Bread Crepuscule Warm Colors and the First Fire MawMaw's Mirliton Dressing An Autumn Evening An Orange Azalea for Susan How to Cure an Iron Pot Grilled-Pepper Quiche Socks and Imagination in Port Orchard, Washington F-aahhhh-ll Socks, Seattle, and Bubbleheads Crocheted Dog for a Newborn Caney Lake, Louisiana Tall Tallow Tree Daytrip to Landry Vineyards Renewing Rusty Old Chairs New Orleans Barbecued Shrimp Kid, Cupcake, and Watermelon Teeth A Visit from Cupcake Louisiana Sunset Mourning a Dove Cooking and Freezing Pears Colorful Summer Decorations Wool Sweater Vest – Not for Summer, Y’all Rainy Sunset Burnishes the Treetops Yard Work and Nursery Rhymes She Planted Zinnias Kieffer Pear Trees Boxcar for Dreams Fresh Blueberry Pie from Scratch Summer Lightning DIY Summer Wreath Killdeer Mama Nests in the Driveway In Memory of American Heroes You Will Laugh Again Don’t Put Your Purse on the Floor Life Is Peaches and Cream….Pie MawMaw’s Dirty Rice Drifting Thoughts on the Mississippi Spring Cathedral I’m Not a Weed! Bass Creole Surrounded by Brown A Pleasant Surprise Came in the Mail Am I an Angler If I Don’t Catch Fish? Greeting Spring Knitting to Bridge Time and Space April Fool’s the Fireplace If Norm Had His Druthers I Would Not Post This Easter Memories from Yvonne Lafleur to Panoramic Easter Eggs Country Sunset The Feast of San Guiseppe Erin Go Bragh! MawMaw’s Southern Cornbread Making Visitors Feel Welcome Touches of Spring Around the House Great Blue Heron Catches a Fish In Like a Lion Means Banana Nut Bread Ode to My Spoons Hanging on to Winter – Louisiana Style What is a Life of Meaning and Purpose? Jackson Parish, Louisiana – the Birthplace of Jimmie Davis A View of the Rain from the Front Porch Chocolate- and Candy-Covered Marshmallows for Your Sweetie on Valentine’s Day Contentment Wafts along the Misty Bayou Planting Trees on Super Bowl Sunday Sparta, Louisiana – Where Nowhere Is Here Now Satsuma Custard Pie to the Rescue A Visit with Ten-Year-Old Me City Girl Gone Country Life Dances to the Ice Validating the Absurd The First Supper – MawMaw’s Seafood Gumbo – Yummy, yummy! A Bunch of Memories in the Attic A Not-So-Silent Night Still Not Snowing The Road Home Jack Frost – Harbinger of Traditional Roll-Out Cookies Cajun (Brown) Jambalaya Camellias on a Misty Morning Socks Trek to Biloxi, Mississippi Lifeline from the Universe Then Comes Stacy Pushing a Baby Carriage Thankful Satsuma Cake with Cream Cheese Icing Socks, Friends, and Bratislava, Slovakia Thank You, Veterans: A Visit to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery (Belleau Woods) A Walk at Jimmie Davis State Park A Jack-o’-Lantern Kind of Halloween 2012 National Water Skiing Champs – ULM Louisiana Satsumas Last Day in Paris MawMaw’s Pecan Pie with Chantilly Dream Trees Life Is As Good As a Pecan Two Women at the Chapel of the Miraculous Medal, Paris MawMaw’s Southern Biscuits and Gravy My Future in a Coffee Cup Trees in Metz, France MawMaw’s Biscuits from Scratch Just a City Girl Looking for a Home Trees of St. Mihiel Churches, Knights, and Socks in Troyes, France Silver Trees of Champagne Artwork along the A4 in France To Lt. Edward Peters and the Soldiers of St. Mihiel American Cemetery Socks Visit Metz, France Summer Leaves Fall Socks Stumble upon Jaulny, France A Lock for Our Anniversary Socks Visit Frank at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Socks Tour Normandy Gislebertus Was Here Tree in Chartres The Raindrops on Your Old Tin Hat, by John Hunter Wickersham How Well He Knows Me Baked Potato Salad Socks Travel around New England with the Bubbleheads New Orleans Red Gravy (Spaghetti Sauce to the Rest of the World) Italian Meatballs Socks Play Peasant at Marie-Antoinette’s Hamlet To Love a Daughter The Creepy Crypt of Chartres Cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres Socks Are Welcomed by Chartres, France Buffalo Chicken Tenders St.-Eustache Church – Paris Benedictine Abbey of the Ascension – Danyi-Dzogbegan, Togo Fairview Riverside State Park String Bean and Artichoke Casserole We Took Mama to Normandy on Mother’s Day Eglise Ste.-Marie-Madeleine – Paris Socks, Snow, and Breckenridge, Colorado Jam with That Pearl? Yes, Please! Socks Don’t Climb the Tower in Cambrai, France Beautiful Bayou Bonfouca How to Peel an Artichoke Creamed Spinach à la Française Winter Trees in Breckenridge, Colorado Stuffed Artichoke St. Genevieve Church – Slidell, Louisiana Socks See Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral Our Lady of Grace Cathedral – Cambrai, France Socks Tour the Domi Moreau Champagne Vineyard Graham Cracker Pie Crust from Scratch Then Comes Marriage Socks Step Back in Time at Le Mont St.-Michel A Crocheted Rag Doll for ME! Socks’ Descent into the Catacombs of Paris Spring Flora of Fairview Riverside State Park Whale-Watching with the Socks on the Gulf of Guinea Ten Things I Love about North Louisiana Key Lime Pie from Scratch Basic Pie Crust from Scratch Shrimp Remoulade in an Alligator-Pear Pirogue Mississippi Welcome Center Trees Downtown Monroe, Louisiana on a Starry Yet Cloudy Night In Memoriam – Somme American Cemetery – Bony, France Changing of the Mugs – Summer MawMaw’s Red Beans and Rice To Pay Respects at Suresnes American Cemetery Socks Are Awed by La Sainte-Chapelle, Paris Helios Visits Suresnes, France “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer at Oise-Aisne American Cemetery Socks and a World War II Hero – Incarville, Normandy Devil’s Food Cake from Scratch Buttercream Icing from Scratch Socks Spend a Weekend in Accra, Ghana Socks, Palm Wine, and the Sodo PTA Springtime Trees at Trocadero and Champ de Mars MawMaw’s Drop Biscuits Celebration in Gbodjomé, Togo MawMaw’s Roast Beef and Vegetables More Than a Coconut Tree Twenty-One Years of Pearl Jamming A Visit with Kids in Sodo, Togo Happy Day, Earth! Homemade Chicken Broth Tree on Avenue Gabriel at Dusk Changing of the Mugs – Spring The Best Cupcake Ever The Creatures of Bayou DeSiard First Comes Love Crawfish Bisque and Stuffed Shells – Part II Crawfish Bisque and Stuffed Shells – Part I A Writer’s Life for Me Cooking, Peeling, and Eating Boiled Crawfish! Spooky Full Moon on a Cloudy Holy Thursday Trees Hugged by Spanish Moss Easter Oreos Puffy Clouds Bayou Liberty Socks Ride in a Pirogue to Togoville Spring Rain Starbucks House Sparrow Mama’s Crawfish Etouffée Azaleas – A Louisiana Love Song Happy Birthday, BFF MawMaw Mama’s Lemon Chicken Mama Took Me Snowshoeing Trees in Paris on a Rainy Morning Ten Reasons Why I Know I Am Not Weird A Tour of Gbodjomé and Obama Beach, Togo MawMaw’s Chicken and Dumplings Dumplings Goodbye to the Concorde Ferris Wheel Socks See a Fort and a Cathedral in Benin Liberté, Fraternité, Egalité, and Dog Mess MawMaw’s Creole (Red) Jambalaya Trees in Paris at Dawn Flash – French Pro Football Team Fishermen on the Benin Coast Socks Go to Ouidah, Benin Vegetable Broth Easy Way to Wash and Store Vegetables Meet Douté – Friend and Togolese Poet The Mercy Ship In Flanders Fields – a Poem Socks Hike the Togo Plateau The Easiest Way to Peel Shrimp Trees in Belgium Socks Go to Belgium Traditional New Orleans King Cake Recipe Socks Cross the Equator Sunset in the Florida Keys We Rebuilt Our Fireplace After Katrina Rue Margueritte New Orleans Pralines Socks Go to the Gold Coast, Ghana Tree Stump It Snowed Today in Paris Annoying Togo Bird Brownies from Scratch Weeping Widow Curiosities in Togo Imaginary Numbers – For Real? Socks Make It to Lomé, Togo Eddie’s Chicken and Andouille Gumbo Tree at Twilight in Paris Poor Bloke’s Bike Gets Jacked Socks Cross the Potomac – Virginia How to Make a Roux Petite Madeleine Cakes Socks See Washington, D.C. The Hush of Black Bayou Warm Winter Trees Socks Start in Louisiana Winter Soul Share!Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
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