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I know this isn’t a fall photo, but the skies have been so gray around here that I needed a bit of vibrant color. Enjoy!

dahlia

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My congratulatory post on the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton is late in coming. But I’m as thrilled as any royal watcher. When the announcement came last year, I was absolutely thrilled, and not at all surprised. These two are perfect for each other.

I still miss my old royal blog, and I’m a bit bummed that the royal couple has apparently forgotten to send my invitation! ;) I guess I’ll just have to get my fix of the wedding through their official site.

On a different topic… Yesterday, I went with one of my kids on a field trip to a nature center. There was a demonstration of how maple syrup is made. Check out how much sap is flowing from a tiny hole in the tree trunk:

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I love this time of year!

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Write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

- Mark Twain

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The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

-Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)

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Brevity is the soul of wit.

- from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, 1603

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Here’s a fun thing to do with words.

Wordle is a site that generates a work of art either from a website or a group of words that you specify. Why be content with boring black and white word clouds, when you can jazz things up?

The cloud you see here was generated from Merry Royals, the blog about royal families that I write for b5media. Yep, I talk a lot about Queens there, real ones, and not just Queen Elizabeth too.

I can spend hours on Wordle, just playing with words and different arrangements. I even see a bit of usefulness there, when one is experiencing writer’s block. Just type out whatever comes to mind, jumble them up whichever way you want, add different colors, use different fonts, turn everything upside down. It just might shake up the creative juices enough to get them flowing again.

Hat tip: Anne at About Freelance Writing

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