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The Big Blog Upheaveal (deepsoil is moving! rss readers beware!)

All right, my long time readers will know that I occasionally decide to try new platforms, to mess around with different hosting and so forth.  Well, I’m stuck on WordPress, but Jody and I decided to host all our blogs on one hosting service, Media Temple. So deep soil, my photoblog, daily ikon, are moving [...]

Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 2/9)

Picking up a Vogue magazine in the stand recently, I was struck by several ads in a row that featured not only particularly anorexic-looking models, but ones that were unnaturally pale, with eyes seemingly enlarged by context in their bony faces, staring vacantly at the camera with limb arranged in provocative positions. If I had [...]

Of Cosmos and Morning Glories: A Fable of Flowers and Girls (Part 1/9)

“She became the high priestess of self-presentation, and was rewarded for it at every turn.” –Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood One spring I thought I would experiment with growing flowers from seeds, and drawn in by the seed packet’s representation of continual bright colored flowers, I planted cosmos along with morning glories and alyssum [...]

Photo Blog

I’ve started a photo blog to record a project in which I hope to shoot at least one good picture a day for a year.  The first two photos are up, so go check out it out @ daily ikon.

Pics from around Nashville

My family was recently in town and one day I took my brother and sis-in-law to take some shots around Nashville.  Brother had recently acquired a Nikon D90, and wanted to put it through the paces shooting our beautiful city.  I took some shots too that I will share with you, still with my point [...]

Advent Conspiracy

So I ran across this thing called the Advent Conspiracy, fitting as this is the first day of Advent.  Pretty awesome stuff.  Apparently, besides simplifying and returning to the roots of what Advent and the Christmas season is actually all about (not trampling people for DVD player’s at Walmart), this site brings to light some [...]

All Human Stories

Perhaps it was from thinking about him after his death, discovering how much I remembered and how little I knew, that I learned that all human stories in this world contain many lost or unwritten or unreadable or unwritable pages and that the truth about us, though it may exist, though it must lie all [...]

Getting the Craftsman Look

I’ve posted another “hub” on the craftsman style. It seems that as the Craftsman revival, well, revives, hardware that can be labeled as “craftsman” is now running a premium over other kinds of hardware made from similar materials. Now some of it’s worth paying for and some of it isn’t. For example, as we built [...]

Craftsman Style House–Inside and Out

I’ve posted a whole long article complete with resources on why we did what we did with our house on hubpages.  Here’s a tease: Creating that New Old House It may sound strange but my favorite compliment that my husband and I have received several times on our new home is: “I know it’s new, [...]