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https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2010/03/sepia-saturday-salt-of-earth.html?showComment=1267891011653 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Sepia Saturday -- Salt of the Earth Kind of timeless, this first picture. When do you think? 1901? 1925? 1933? Nope - 1974. The year after we bought the upper part of t... vicki laneof themysteriessepiasaturday https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2014/11/that-barefoot-walk.html?showComment=1414862183146 Vicki Lane Mysteries: That Barefoot Walk We awakened this morning to a serious first snow . . . and you know what Miss Birdie says . . . W alk barefoot in the first... vicki lanebarefoot walkmysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2012/03/reflections.html?showComment=1333222631766 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Reflections . . . vicki lanemysteriesreflections https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2025/04/rabbit-rabbit.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: Rabbit, Rabbit Where wild violets come from . . . vicki lanemysteriesrabbit https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-can-see-clearly-now.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: I Can See Clearly Now . .. The flowering quince at the base of the birdfeeder had grown so tall that it was blocking my view of the garden beyond. So on Friday I att... i can seevicki lanemysteriesclearly https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2021/03/new-stuff-for-josie.html?showComment=1615294974188 Vicki Lane Mysteries: New Stuff for Josie New markers! I wrote my name! Actually, I traced it. Meema wrote in in yellow and I traced it in blue, I did a good job with the S's but no... vicki lanenew stuffmysteriesjosie https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2009/05/blood-done-sign-my-name.html?showComment=1242299220000 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Blood Done Sign My Name "... one of the most powerful meditations on race in America that I have ever read" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Lots of folks have praised Tim... vicki lanemy namemysteriesblooddone https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2019/03/josie-and-new-stuff.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: Josie and the New Stuff vicki lanethe newmysteriesjosiestuff https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2009/02/critique.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: Critique My workshop on writing popular fiction meets tonight and we begin the critiques of twenty pages from each of the first two victims - er, m... vicki lanemysteriescritique https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-retablo-from-friend.html?showComment=1474037323954 Vicki Lane Mysteries: A Retablo from a Friend Is this sweet or what? A dear friend sent me this retablo she painted in memory of Willa. A halo, d0g biscuits, and rabbits ! And thos... vicki lanemysteriesretablofriend https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2010/12/out-and-about.html?showComment=1293048843641 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Out and About Tuesday was gray and drizzly but I took my camera along on my trip to town. I'm happy to report that the white goose down by the river s... out and aboutvicki lanemysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2012/05/after-election.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: After the Election Alas, the hateful Amendment One to the North Carolina Constitution passed, defining marriage as between one man and one woman, and denyin... vicki laneafter themysterieselection https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2024/05/a-few-of-my-favorite-things.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: A Few of My Favorite Things my favorite thingsvicki lanemysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-kittehs-resolution.html?showComment=1482255502407 Vicki Lane Mysteries: The Kittehs' Resolution vicki lanemysterieskittehsresolution https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2010/04/brides-book-sepia-saturday.html?showComment=1272116729983 Vicki Lane Mysteries: The Bride's Book ~ Sepia Saturday My maternal grandparents were married on October 20, 1915 in Troy, Alabama. I've posted about them before -- when they were courting and p... vicki lanethe bridemysteriesbooksepia https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2018/11/getting-ready.html?showComment=1542381346855 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Getting Ready . . . Rain, rain, and more rain. Perfect weather for getting a jump start on Thanksgiving cooking. We are having our feast on Wednesday as Cl... vicki lanegetting readymysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-little-walk.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: A Little Walk Thursday was a beautiful sunny day -- just right for a little walk. The hellebores are blooming in their usual modest manner, looking dow... vicki lanemysterieslittlewalk https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2014/03/messages-from-first-day-of-spring.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: Messages from the First Day of Spring from the firstvicki lanemysteriesmessagesday https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-magical-time.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: A Magical Time The star magnolia, forsythia, and flowering quince kno... vicki lanemagical timemysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2013/02/another-milliner.html?showComment=1361986756347 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Another Milliner Last week, when I wrote about the hatbox and my memories of Revere McCleod , I was reminded that my own great-grandmother Alice was a mil... vicki lanemysteriesanothermilliner https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2023/04/josie-and-fashion-and-some-other-stuff.html?showComment=1682341795760 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Josie and Fashion (and Some Other Stuff) I spent Sunday afternoon with Meema because Mama had to go to work and Daddy and Grumpy were busy giving the cows worm medicine. I brought u... some other stuffvicki lanemysteriesjosiefashion https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2010/11/number-six.html?showComment=1290511878558 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Number Six! My page proofs for book number six arrived! It appears They've decided to call the series The Full Circle Farm Mysteries. I don't know... vicki lanenumber sixmysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-mixed-bag.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: A Mixed Bag Old mule-drawn hay rakes and a mowing machine--out to pasture. Many years ago, John and our mules Pete and Molly actually used these. Turkey... vicki lanemixed bagmysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2023/05/not-bit-political.html?showComment=1683895347813 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Not a Bit Political vicki lanemysteriesbitpolitical https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-apparitionist.html?showComment=1508518820994 Vicki Lane Mysteries: The Apparitionist The Apparitionist- National Ghost Story Competition To embrace and honor the heritage of storytelling in Western North Carolina, Tryon... vicki lanemysteriesapparitionist https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-apparitionist.html?showComment=1508500931667 Vicki Lane Mysteries: The Apparitionist The Apparitionist- National Ghost Story Competition To embrace and honor the heritage of storytelling in Western North Carolina, Tryon... vicki lanemysteriesapparitionist https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2014/07/what-is-it.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: What Is It? At Wildacres I found this mysterious arrangement at the base of a tree in the parking lot. My first thought was of the Yunwi Tsu... what is itvicki lanemysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2015/06/silent-sunday.html?showComment=1434322767156 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Silent Sunday vicki lanemysteriessilentsunday https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2010/04/revelations-of-hot-spring-day.html?showComment=1271025873035 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Revelations of a Hot Spring Day An opening tulip brims with morning light , Holding the day in its fragile bowl . The pear's gray branches burgeon green and white... vicki lanehot springmysteriesrevelationsday https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2012/03/march-madness_10.html?showComment=1331400152686 Vicki Lane Mysteries: March Madness vicki lanemarch madnessmysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2022/03/kittehs-have-something-to-say.html?showComment=1646741910538 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Kittehs Have Something to Say Remember me? I'm Angeline, the pretty one. I've decided this new dog is no threat so I'm reclaiming my spot on the bed. Since I've been spen... something to sayvicki lanemysterieskittehs https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2026/03/latin-trivia.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: Latin Trivia Minutas cantorum, minutas balorum, Minutas carbonatum descendus pantorum. A little song, a little dance, A little seltzer down your pants. I... vicki lanemysterieslatintrivia https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2022/09/cattle-and-skies.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: Cattle. And Skies vicki lanemysteriescattleskies https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2018/12/more-christmas-josie.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: More Christmas Josie vicki lanemysterieschristmasjosie https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2015/12/its-that-time-again.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: It's That Time Again Our first snow fell yesterday afternoon so, in accordance with the old tradition that says to walk barefoot in the first snow for good h... vicki lanethat timemysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2021/12/its-dogs-world.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: It's a Dog's World vicki lanedog worldmysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2009/07/auricular-hour-time-change.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: Auricular Hour Time Change!! THIS JUST IN! DUE TO A CONFLICT WITH AN IMPORTANT COMMUNITY MEETING (RE THE PROPOSED CEMENT PLANT IN MARSHALL), TOMORROW'S AURICULAR HOUR ... vicki lanetime changemysteriesauricularhour https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2011/07/jersey-girls-at-buffet.html?showComment=1309518098408 Vicki Lane Mysteries: The Jersey Girls at the Buffet vicki lanethe jerseymysteriesgirlsbuffet https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2010/02/time-travel.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: Time Travel The view was dismal yesterday -- blowing snow, but not enough to be pretty, and broken branches from the big pre-Christmas unpleasantness.... vicki lanetime travelmysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2021/02/second-shot.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: Second Shot! And oh! the relief! Not that we'll be doing anything differently for fourteen days. But I find myself thinking about maybe a haircut. . . ... vicki lanesecond shotmysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-most-proper-orgy.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: A Most Proper Orgy I'm not sure when I began to read Barbara Pym -- over thirty years ago, I think, when, after a long period of obscurity, she was re-dis... vicki lanemysteriesproperorgy https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2009/07/you-may-be-winner.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: YOU May Be A WINNER!!! I don't gamble. I don't buy lottery tickets. But several time a year, I invest a stamp and some time in jumping through the various hoops ... vicki lanemay bemysterieswinner https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2013/03/you-tell-me.html?showComment=1362236844001 Vicki Lane Mysteries: You Tell Me Early morning and late afternoon have the best light for photography -- those lovely slanting shadows. The writing class I'm teachin... you tell mevicki lanemysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2015/06/knee-jerk-responses-including-mine.html?showComment=1434717919928 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Knee Jerk Responses -- Including Mine It's so predictable -- another horrific mass shooting by a deranged person with a gun and a white supremacy kink in his mind -- an... vicki laneknee jerkmysteriesresponsesincluding https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2025/07/things-i-dont-believe.html?showComment=1752498242039 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Things I Don't Believe That Facebook "cares about me and my memories" . . . That The Washington Post " misses" ... vicki lanemysteriesthingsbelieve https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2022/07/now-those-are-some-horny-cattle.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: Now Those Are Some Horny Cattle Spotted in a pasture near Josie's pre-school. I'm guessing they're Ankole -Watusi or some iteration thereof. Pretty amazing. I have to won... vicki lanemysterieshornycattle https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2012/03/coq-au-vin.html?showComment=1330944554557 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Coq Au Vin This is what we had for supper Saturday night before Carolina trounced Duke. Coq au Vin is traditionally made with red wine -- and a fair a... coq au vinvicki lanemysteries https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2017/05/miss-birdie-studies-on-memorial-day.html?showComment=1496054414505 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Miss Birdie Studies on Memorial Day Why, Lizzie Beth, you like to give me a fright. I was just setting here thinking and didn't hear you pecking at the door. Come right on in... vicki lanememorial daymysteriesmissbirdie https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2025/03/tuscan-chicken.html?showComment=1743288569778 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Tuscan Chicken This is a really easy and tasty way to cook chicken thighs (or 'second-joints,' as they were called when I was growing up, along with 'white... vicki lanemysteriestuscanchicken https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2025/12/morning.html?showComment=1765457202232 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Morning vicki lanemysteriesmorning https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2025/07/it-rained-like-one-thing.html?showComment=1752143584348 Vicki Lane Mysteries: It Rained Like One Thing . . . as Miss Birdie might say. Hard rain for about a half an hour. 1.7 inches We were thrilled, even though our power and internet were kn... vicki laneone thingmysteriesrainedlike https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2010/04/revelations-of-hot-spring-day.html?showComment=1271009755622 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Revelations of a Hot Spring Day An opening tulip brims with morning light , Holding the day in its fragile bowl . The pear's gray branches burgeon green and white... vicki lanehot springmysteriesrevelationsday https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2013/10/webs.html?showComment=1381256655636 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Webs vicki lanemysterieswebs https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2013/04/dog-politics_18.html?showComment=1366291182069 Vicki Lane Mysteries: Dog Politics Gabrielle Giffords says the same thing as Willa but more eloquently (and politely) HERE . vicki lanemysteriesdogpolitics https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2012/12/plauing-with-picasa.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: Playng with Picasa vicki lanemysteriesplayngpicasa https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2017/10/singin-runny-nose-sore-throat-coughin.html Vicki Lane Mysteries: Singin' the Runny Nose, Sore Throat, Coughin' Blues The cold that has been running through our family has taken up residence in my head. It's the first cold I've had in years and it fe... vicki lanerunny nosesore throatmysteriessingin https://vickilanemysteries.blogspot.com/2011/12/with-apologioes-to-dr-seuss.html?showComment=1324563977523 Vicki Lane Mysteries: With Apologies to Dr. Seuss The sun did not shine; It was too wet to play. So Willa sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day. She sat there with Ali; they s... with apologies tovicki lanedr seussmysteries