Winter Visit

A spot of color to brighten my winter day...

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State of the King's Realm

"The Gentry are all round, stand up now, stand up now,    The Gentry are all round, stand up now;   The Gentry are all round, on each side they are found,   Their wisdom's so profound to cheat us of our ground.   Stand up now, stand up now…"~ The Diggers Song  I am not by nature a political creature. The daily comings and...

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Bloggerversary

The Bemused Muse was launched 21 Feb 2006. “Wood is the traditional five-year anniversary gift...

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Phipps Trip

I don't have the energy to properly journal anything but I did upload photographs from yesterday: Phipps Conservatory.  Blogger fought me during uploads. I'll try to upload the missing pictures later. Phipps Conservatory (complex in background) as seen from the VAMC parking garage Bonsai Collection Bonsai in flower Closeup of flower This was donated from a private...

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Schmedly

Better Half and I explored Phipps today. I'll add a better blog entry later this week (with photographs). Tonight it is all about Schmedly the Gargoyle. He was part of the summer exhibit in 2009 and was dejectedly sitting in the foyer this afternoon. We had to take him home. (I was a good girl and did not beg for his companion, Purrkins the Wall Lizard-Cat.) Schmedly circa July...

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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: INTJ

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a widely used personality inventory, or test, employed in vocational, educational, and psychotherapy settings to evaluate personality type in adolescents and adults age 14 and older. I first encountered the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) more than ten years ago while working in Colorado. It is an eerily accurate personality assessment,...

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February Musing

The stark grey sky outside my living room window is silhouetted by moisture-blacked branches; both blizzards have bypassed us, leaving only ice and freezing rain in their wake. It is a dreary scene that will be remedied with the arrival of spring. I love every season, but winter brings with it a penetrating reality unfettered by warmth and leaves. The world is crunchy, a perilous...

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