“Here’s your sweet lavender
sixteen sprigs a penny
that you’ll find my ladies
will smell as sweet as any.”
Lavender Seller’s Cry – London England 1900
Located deep in the high desert off of highway A-12, just 20 minutes North of the city of Mt. Shasta, lies a jewel glittering beneath the sun. The Mt. Shasta Lavender Farm sprawls [...]
Posts on ‘July 6th, 2009’
Mt. Shasta Lavender Farm: High Desert Beauty
What An Animal II Challenge
July 1, 2009 – February 28, 2010
Kristi at Passion for the Page is hosting Part II of the What An Animal Challenge. I did the first one and really enjoyed it…and I seem to have a lot of books on my stacks that meet the requirements of this challenge…so I’m in
Here are the guidelines:
1. Read [...]
Spice of Life Challenge
July 1 – December 31, 2009
Rebecca is hosting the Spice of Life Challenge to read and/or review books about food and eating our way through a good life. I just cannot resist it! Here are the guidelines:
Feel free to overlap your books with any other reading challenges you have.
If you feel so inclined, share a [...]
Not Just Reading…
…these days.
My sister and niece arrived on the West Coast ten days ago and we had a great time. I met them in San Francisco and we spent a couple of days there before heading back to Shingletown. Despite the triple digit weather, we managed to do a lot more than just sit around and [...]
Women Writers in Peril
**This post was originally published on my Women Writer’s blog in September 2008; I have since closed that blog and will be periodically re-posting articles from that blog to Caribousmom.
In 2007, 45 writers from 22 countries received Hellman/Hammett grants from Human Rights Watch, an organization which supports writers around the world who have been targets [...]
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