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Why I Travel the Backroads My wife and I love to travel the country’s backroads. There are many positive reasons for our preference for highways other than interstates and expressways. Engineers design and build multi-lane thoroughfares to save time by avoiding small towns, winding mountainous roads, lower speed limits, and often slower traffic. When you are retired, those reasons play second …
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Flowers      Is there an occasion when flowers aren't the answer?     I've had flowers during times of celebration.     Flowers in times of deep sorrow.     During the highest highs, and some of the lowest lows, flowers had a way of showing up.     Tonight my heart is too full for words, so I'll just plop a picture here of a few
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Help People in This Heat! Like many Mid-West and eastern U.S. areas, the National Weather Service issued a Heat Advisory for Virginia for today. Many urban areas have Excessive Heat Warnings for heat indexes well above 100. People without air conditioning, and especially the homeless, have to find ways to stay cool. Many have nowhere to turn unless agencies or …
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Evolution of Sunflower Blossoms What better way to celebrate the Summer Solstice than to feature sunflowers? We were fortunate to have volunteer sunflowers sprout up in our backyard flower garden this year. Seeds dropped by birds or buried by squirrels from one of my birdfeeders created these wonders. At first, the gang of neighborhood rabbits nibbled the tender leaves. …
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Reality vs. Fantasy When I happened upon this tender scene, I did a double-take. My wife and I had joined an entourage from church for a Sunday afternoon of baptisms for three teens in the chilly mountain stream. After the dunkings and the celebratory congratulations shared, I wandered away from the rest of the revelers to see what …
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