Things I love about Summer Break

By Elizabeth Prata I'm on the downslope of Summer Break now. I've had four and a half weeks off and I've got three and a half weeks left. I work in public school and we have about 8 weeks of summer break. I am a 190 day employee, and so my salary is a 6 …

Art Series #6: John Constable’s “The Glebe Farm”

By Elizabeth Prata I say in my bio that I love the Bible, (which I explore at my other blog The End Time), children, books, and art. I developed an art series presenting the pieces I cherish in my own home, writing about the piece and the background of the painter. I've been fortunate to …

Scenes on a Summer Solstice

By Elizabeth Prata I've been out of school and on summer break now for three and a half weeks. Today it's as great as it was on the first day. I love summer break. I went outside to check on my little patio area and noticed that the chair I have out there has bird …

Things I remember…memories

By Elizabeth Prata Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash I remember Julia Child's show and her exotic recipes my mother tried on us.I remember when kiwi fruit was new.I remember puka beads, fondue, Viet Nam war stats at the end of every newscast.Pollution was new eco-care was a genre just born.The dump was just that, …

Prata Potpourri – cats that talk, tea garden, StoryWalks, Old Enough, The Orville, and other TV more

by Elizabeth Prata My personal blog- what else do old ladies like me talk about...except tea, cats, and books? LOL. Let's start with those three. I am a Yankee transplant to Georgia. When someone says tea, the default here is cold sweet tea. Not for me, woman of the North. It’s hot herbal tea. I …

Scenes from a short jaunt

By Elizabeth Prata It is a gorgeous Saturday morning, low humidity, bright sun. I needed to get tot he Bank, Post Office, and grocery store for just a few items. I thought I might drive around the county taking photos of the rural scenes, but thought the better of it, given gas prices. So I …

Ephemera pops up in the strangest places

By Elizabeth Prata Ephemera are the paper products that flutter out of old books, appear at the bottom of trunks slipped into notepads. They are old bills, receipts, pamphlets, etc. The internet defines it this way: "items of collectible memorabilia, typically written or printed ones, that were originally expected to have only short-term usefulness or …

Stupid squirrels ruin everything

By Elizabeth Prata Seven months ago I bought a clear Lexan bird feeder. It didn't take long before the birds found it. I've seen male and female cardinals, tufted titmouse, once in a while a woodpecker, and a mourning dove below grabbing fallen seeds. They didn't gobble seeds as fast as I'd worried. I cold …

Vintage Store mini-haul

By Elizabeth Prata It's going to be hot today and hotter the next few days. Like 90+ hot temps we don't usually get until July. May is 70s and June is 80s and THEN we get the 90s in July and August the 100s. Sigh. I was hoping to keep the air conditioning off in …

End of school year is coming!

By Elizabeth Prata The leaves have fully budded, the first fruit trees have flowered and bloomed and petals have fallen to make way for leaves. The birds are back in force and spring is truly underway. It's halfway over, in fact, with summer getting closer every day. I do love a Georgia spring and I …