This weekend was somewhat
bittersweet for me.
One of my close friends and a former co-worker from when I
worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences is leaving the Philly area. She’s
moving to Washington D.C. where she’ll be teaching Science at an elementary
school. It will be a big loss for the Academy, but what a wonderful gain for the
students she’ll be teaching. Michele ran the Outreach Program, bringing science
and animals to the schools of the tri-state area for many years. Here's Michele with me.
Here is Michele
with Naomi and Anita. All four of us had worked at the Academy and Anita still
volunteers there.
Michele, Naomi and Anita
We had a going
away party for Michele, but first they wanted to see our pond and our very
large goldfish.
Here is my husband proudly showing off the pond
I have two apple
trees and this is the first apple produced.
Anita did the
honor of slicing the apple for us. The apple was very sweet and I hope to see
many more on that tree. When we ordered the two apple trees from the
catalogue, we were told that apples would be popping out the first year…six
years later, we've only had the one.
I get a lot of
butterflies, native honey bees and hummingbirds in my garden. Here is a
butterfly. Anyone want to take a guess on what it is? Come on, take a guess.
I also get lots of finches at my bird feeder.
After dinner we
had cake and gifts for Michele. I’m wishing you well in your new career.
Sunday, I decided
to go to the Collingswood Arts and Craft fair
with my daughter and the youngest
of her desperadoes, Nathan. He was not in a good mood, can you tell?
But we did get to
shop at Pat Cunningham’s Busy Beads
and get ice cream from the Pop shop
And we did get to
hear some great music from the band known as Foster Child.
But I had missed the Kelli Campbell Trio which had played on Saturday. Check them out, they are awesome.
Now we’ll jump to
my adventures with publishing and Google. In today’s publishing world, the
writer has to have a following, a persona if you like, on the internet. This means a blog,
a twitter account, facebook, etc. etc. before publishing companies will even take a chance on you.
So, I have a blog
which I try to update once a week and I have my Lilith Episodes which I
post every Friday, but I also keep a daily presence on facebook
and twitter
I've met
some interesting and amazing people,
I love it, but if you want publishers to
see how serious you are about writing, you should also think about Google+
Now remember, I
can’t walk and chew gum at the same time! I have a chance to get a story
published and I was advised to build up my Google+ presence. There’s a Google+?
Who knew? I’m still trying to figure out regular Google and recently someone mentioned
Google Chrome. Help…I’m still looking for my lost webkin, Zeppie, on the Web. Has anyone seen him?
Anyway, if you do
go on Google+ and you’re feeling kindly towards me, please follow me. I will
appreciate this very much and will treat you to some delicious apples the next
time they grow on my little apple tree.
