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Where the living is easy.

July 19, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner 6 Comments

Lake Day! The day we packed the car and headed to the lake felt Christmas Eve exciting. For one week, the Ozark Mountains replaced our Delta fields. The lake promised a change of pace beyond scenery.

Food tasted better—barbecue, hand churned ice cream, hot dogs roasted on the island with a sprinkle of sand blown by the warm wind.

Inside our cabin, the air smelled distinct and exotic, the smell of a special place locked up tight until summer. Through the jumble of trees, our glittery lake had waited for us a whole year. A year spent growing taller, learning fractions, playing kickball.

At long last, we were home at the lake where our days spread long and lazy and everything felt easy.

Lake Norfork, Arkansas

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The Beatles – Good Day Sunshine

Where the heck are my genie powers?

April 15, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner 15 Comments

DANG IT’S COLD! For one day and one day only (thank goodness) spring has disappeared from the Ozark Mountains and winter has returned. Rude this time of year, don’t you agree?

This morning I am trying to summon the will to unbury myself from my cozy, warm bed. The coffee pot in my Dairy Hollow room is waaaaaaaaay over there. See it sitting on top of that little refrigerator?

i need genie powers

Between here and there spreads several feet of icy concrete. And my feet are bare. If only I had genie powers…

As a kid, if someone granted me one wish and I could have been anyone—real, imagined, dead, alive, rich, famous—anyone, I would have chosen Jeannie, from the 1970s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. I loved everything about her. The way her blonde ponytail bounced when she blinked and performed magic, her dreamy outfit that showed off her curvy body, her super groovy bottle decorated inside like…well, like a genie’s bedroom should be decorated with poofy pillows and sheer fabric and low lighting.

And Major Nelson? ohh la la. He was cute before he became an evil oil baron.

I Wanna Be a Genie

Alas I am not Jeannie, and I must make my own magic. Right now I’m gonna make coffee.

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Grace Grits and Gardening

Musical Pairing:

I Dream of Jeannie

“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Architecture of the Ozarks

November 13, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner 9 Comments

Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Spring Street (or thereabouts…)
wordless wednesday
Eureka Springs Arkansas
upper spring
Abandoned building, Eureka Springs, Ar
storefront shell
Grotto, Eureka Springs, Ar
grotto
Above Spring Street, Eureka Springs, Ar
along hiking path
near Spring Street, Eureka Springs, Ar
moss
Spring Street, Eureka Springs, Ar
face in stone wall

“…just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper. ‘I am watching you — are you watching yourself in me?’― Lawrence Durrell, Spirit Of Place: Letters And Essays On Travel

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Hi! I'm Talya. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

THE ACCIDENTAL SALVATION OF GRACIE LEE (2016)

GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

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