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Gracie Lee’s Instagram Party!

December 2, 2015 By Talya Tate Boerner

To celebrate December, Gracie Lee is hosting an Instagram party. Of course when Gracie Lee was a kid in the early 1970s, Instagram existed in it’s purest form—as a bulletin board on the bedroom wall. Or a photo album filled with carefully arranged Polaroids.

Christmas was one of her favorite times of the year. From the day the Sears Christmas Catalog arrived in the mail to New Year’s Day, she tried to hold on to the magic of Christmas. It was the one time of year Daddy didn’t seem so grumpy and everyone breathed a little easier.

Plus school was out for three whole weeks.

And sometimes there was snow.Continue Reading

A Good Day from Morning til Night

January 29, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner

Since I take a zillion pictures each day anyway, I thought I may as well join in on the Photo an Hour blog challenge with Southern Mess (great blog name, right?). The idea is to select a day and take one photo for every waking hour. (Why? Just because.) I chose last Saturday since I was actually doing something other than my two primary activities of writing and dog walking…

It was fun to document each hour on the hour. And since I got up before dawn there were lots of pictures. I grouped them so it wouldn’t be too painful. (I hope.)

Without further adieu…

one photo an hour

5- black coffee; 6-still dark; 7-frozen water; 8-morning writing

one photo and hour

9-hot shower; 10-green smoothie; 11-kale harvest; 12-sweet Annabelle

one photo an hour

1-cool car; 2-pink cowgirls; 3-calf roping; 4-bull riding

one photo an hour

5-funnel cake; 6-cute boots; 7-brown calf; 8-onion rings

one photo an hour

9-mounted longhorn; 10-rodeo ticket; 11-historic saloon; 12-night night

It was a good day from morning til night… How was your Saturday?

Grace Grits and Gardening

P.S. Bloggers it’s not too late. Take pictures today and link up with Southern Mess tomorrow!

Musical Pairing:

It’s a Good Day, Peggy Lee