Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking
Welcome!
http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/
LEAVE YOUR CARES BEHIND
JOIN ME ON THE PORCH
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| My Front Porch. Copyright 2014 Marcia Norwood |
My Favorite Place:
The Porch!
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| My Front Porch. Copyright 2014 Marcia Norwood |
Listening to the birds in the mornings...
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| My Front Porch. Copyright 2014 Marcia Norwood |
Look! A red bird built a nest
in my red watering can!
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If this old porch could talk...
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| My Front Porch. Copyright 2014 Marcia Norwood |
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit with on a porch -- never say a word -- then walk away feeling like it was
the best conversation you ever had.
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| My Front Porch. Copyright 2014 Marcia Norwood |
These are photos of my front porch. It's a tiny thing, so I expanded the feel of the porch by adding a swing, a rocking chair, a rug, and potted plants. I don't mind the cracked concrete or the moss growing on the stones.
No one in our culdesac sits in the front of their house. They all sit in the back on their decks. I like to sit on my front porch - just like I did when I was a little girl. We waved at every car that went by, and most neighbors walked over to sit with us.
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| My Front Porch. Copyright 2014 Marcia Norwood |
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| My Front Porch. Copyright 2014 Marcia Norwood |
“No front porches.
My uncle says there used to be front porches,
and people sat there sometimes at night,
talking when they wanted to talk,
rocking and not talking when they didn’t want to talk. Sometimes they just sat there, and thought about things, turned things over.
My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn’t look well.
...They didn’t want people sitting like that,
doing nothing, rocking, talking;
that was the wrong kind of social life.
People talked too much,
and they had time to think.
So they ran off with the porches.
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
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Each year I plant red geraniums in Granny Lucille's cement flower pot. This year I added cilantro.
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My antique bicycle...
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| We have baby robins in our tree near the front porch! Copyright 2014 Marcia Norwood |
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| Robin's Nest in Dwarf Alberta Spruce. Copyright 2014 Marcia Norwood |
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Potted plants in a whiskey barrel...
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My firstborn, daughter, Kristin, gave me these gorgeous hydrangeas for Mother's Day!
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"If you're seeking blue hydrangea flowers, check your soil's pH level and
apply aluminum sulfate in spring to lower pH to the 5.2-5.5 range. The
change in hydrangea flower color results from lower pH and higher
aluminum content in the soil."
CLICK on the link or COPY & PASTE the link in your browser:
http://www.bhg.com/gardening/plant-dictionary/shrub/hydrangea/
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Read more about my antique bicycle that I found at an antique store in Pella, Iowa...
Sep 03, 2013
B
I C Y C L E . Marcia Norwood America's STORYTELLER Telling Untold
Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking Bicycles are fun to
ride, and also wonderful to plant, and place in the yard as garden art.
Mar 16, 2012
I
fell in love with the idea of using a vintage bicycle as garden art
when I saw one many years ago planted with flowers at the Historical
Village in Pella, Iowa. I searched for three years in three states for a
vintage bicycle for my ...
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Read more about my front porch...
Feb 09, 2012
We
downsized to a small cottage in 2004. Our front porch is so tiny....so I
expanded the "porch-space" by adding a porch swing to the side,
stepping stones and a rocking chair in front of the porch. July 2011 ...
Sep 03, 2013
View
from my front porch. I live between two bullies on a seemingly quiet
cul-de-sac in the heart of America. ... View of our front yard from our
front porch. "We will make your life so miserable that you will move
out," they said.
Thanks for stopping by!
Come back often, and invite a friend!
Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking
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| Marcia and Her Baby Brother, Terry. Copyright 2014 Marcia Norwood |
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