tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27903935315704611152024-03-13T10:40:46.913-07:00Daughter of the StarsHistorical/Paranormal/YA Romance, Gardening, Herbal Lore...my Stories & the Inspiration Behind Them.Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.comBlogger471125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-69136532813331629282020-03-28T07:21:00.000-07:002020-03-28T07:21:29.663-07:00The Time of Daffodils<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. ~Ruth Stout</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ODrJSuH4WHo/Xn6UPlNkJCI/AAAAAAAAW7Q/jML1p9HyeKcRoWQaWnILVLUB_9tkUjudACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Daffodils%2Bin%2Btheir%2Bglory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ODrJSuH4WHo/Xn6UPlNkJCI/AAAAAAAAW7Q/jML1p9HyeKcRoWQaWnILVLUB_9tkUjudACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Daffodils%2Bin%2Btheir%2Bglory.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daffodils are such happy flowers. I can't imagine anyone not liking them. They're easy to grow and mix in beautifully with crocus, hyacinths, and other early blooms. Daffodils have always been on the farm. My mother-in-law had them, and the families who lived here before her. I've divided old clumps, spread them around, and planted new varieties over the years. The waving yellow and white blooms are a spirit lifting sight. When I'm outside working among the flowers, I feel more peaceful and not as freaked out about the pandemic. Like countless others, I'm at home for the duration and especially grateful for the garden. Having an early spring in the valley is a boon. I wish I could share the beauty with everyone. This is the best I can do.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spring forever appears<br /> the soothing music part<br /> of lyrics unspoken.<br />It thaws the frozen fears,<br /> mends the wounded heart<br /> that Winter has broken.<br />~Aarno Davidson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CZl1K0K0lYI/Xn6UbibkI_I/AAAAAAAAW7U/wZ7CLkgJHMcVG8Tp1UTr6dseAnnq0NvywCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/91056776_10158190996500667_35546820083974144_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="898" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CZl1K0K0lYI/Xn6UbibkI_I/AAAAAAAAW7U/wZ7CLkgJHMcVG8Tp1UTr6dseAnnq0NvywCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/91056776_10158190996500667_35546820083974144_o.jpg" width="373" /></span></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. ~Henry Van Dyke</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sun has come out... and the air is vivid with spring light. ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NsGmF9XDPeg/Xn6U7ttemiI/AAAAAAAAW7g/pYniQdBLdig1ZISFsC2dae4b4rrhMEMIACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/morning%2Blight%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bgarden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NsGmF9XDPeg/Xn6U7ttemiI/AAAAAAAAW7g/pYniQdBLdig1ZISFsC2dae4b4rrhMEMIACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/morning%2Blight%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bgarden.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little madness in the Spring<br />Is wholesome even for the King.<br />~Emily Dickinson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winter sprouts springtime wings and flies off into the budding year. ~Terri Guillemets</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CkSRaYOhc7g/Xn6We_0q_kI/AAAAAAAAW7s/vfbMbN95FWEJescSfNdw5OUW25fs84LrACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Hyacinths%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bmorning%2Bsun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CkSRaYOhc7g/Xn6We_0q_kI/AAAAAAAAW7s/vfbMbN95FWEJescSfNdw5OUW25fs84LrACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Hyacinths%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bmorning%2Bsun.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daffodils, so bright and yellow,<br /> Hyacinths of varied hues,<br /> As they nod their heads, in gladness,<br /> Telling us they bring good news...<br />~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Springtime" (1940s)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sure hope spring brings good news to us all</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HsDOv8dkbUU/Xn6aUGtXvaI/AAAAAAAAW74/7v92yZTRWi8SKQS_W1R8LXHT-xevYSsGQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Pear%2Btrees%2Bbeside%2Bthe%2Bold%2Bbarn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HsDOv8dkbUU/Xn6aUGtXvaI/AAAAAAAAW74/7v92yZTRWi8SKQS_W1R8LXHT-xevYSsGQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Pear%2Btrees%2Bbeside%2Bthe%2Bold%2Bbarn.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-55678810812105354612019-11-27T07:24:00.004-08:002019-11-27T07:24:51.351-08:00Old Homes and the First Thanksgiving<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As many of you know, I'm </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mad about old homes and often feature them in my books. My latest time travel romance series, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-Lady-Ladies-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B071VTNC7V/ref">Ladies in Time,</a> is all about cool old homes. Maybe living in antiquated homes most of my life has influenced me. The farm house my husband and I live in now was built just after the Civil War, probably because its predecessor was burned, but that's another story. History fascinates me, and Colonial America has a powerful draw. Virginia is great state to immerse myself in that era, among others. Civil War...</span></span></div>
</div>
<div id="pd_rating_holder_103558_post_1763" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div id="pd_rate_103558_post_1763" style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<div id="PDRTJS_103558_post_1763_stars_4" style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d4ra_fphW9g/Xd6B_NU1HAI/AAAAAAAAVIs/TKgfRarLP9gVFVLeGaIi_5gvQqZEiM63wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Berkeley_plantation_harrison_home.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="953" height="315" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d4ra_fphW9g/Xd6B_NU1HAI/AAAAAAAAVIs/TKgfRarLP9gVFVLeGaIi_5gvQqZEiM63wCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Berkeley_plantation_harrison_home.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></span>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Berkeley)</span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</span></span></span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Years ago, while doing research for <b>Traitor's Legacy</b>, t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sequel to colonial American historical romance novel</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Enemy of the King</i></b>, the idea came to me for ghostly time travel romance, <b><i>Somewhere My Love</i></b>. In addition to touring colonial Williamsburg, mom and I visited some of the lovely James River Plantations. Two of these stately homes, Berkeley and Shirley, inspired the house in <em style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Somewhere My Love</em>, Foxleigh. Berkeley, originally called Berkeley Hundred and named after one of its founders, has a wealth of history behind it. As we toured the grounds, a strong sense of the past flowed over me, carrying me back.</span></span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div align="center" style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><u></u><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The magnificent terraced boxwood gardens and lawn extend a quarter-mile from the front door to the James River. The mansion itself wasn’t built until 1726, but the plantation’s history reaches much farther back into America‘s roots. I didn’t realize this, but Berkeley was the actual site of the first Thanksgiving in America on Dec. 4, 1619.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QfBnJdPYFUM/WVfRsjYSxMI/AAAAAAAAFoM/Ey-mjQgPXXAvZcvScigZ3ozX8AdizWhNQCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/heirloom%2Bpoppies%2Band%2BChinese%2Bforget%2Bme%2Bnots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QfBnJdPYFUM/WVfRsjYSxMI/AAAAAAAAFoM/Ey-mjQgPXXAvZcvScigZ3ozX8AdizWhNQCPcBGAYYCw/s320/heirloom%2Bpoppies%2Band%2BChinese%2Bforget%2Bme%2Bnots.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"> (Breadseed Poppy-- seed from Monticello)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5r2xr_fbIPY/TSkTyJAkC8I/AAAAAAAACfc/pDx1wEPP9eI47Zwa6322Fm8OpbG3LRr6wCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/GentLadyChristmasEveStroll.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5r2xr_fbIPY/TSkTyJAkC8I/AAAAAAAACfc/pDx1wEPP9eI47Zwa6322Fm8OpbG3LRr6wCPcBGAYYCw/s320/GentLadyChristmasEveStroll.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"> (Williamsburg)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pXvkViu98Xs/U2Ip-7j8HGI/AAAAAAAAEgY/WnGJ0kuTw5UYinL74sUpOypVvMBLSuZcACPcBGAYYCw/s1600/foxglove1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pXvkViu98Xs/U2Ip-7j8HGI/AAAAAAAAEgY/WnGJ0kuTw5UYinL74sUpOypVvMBLSuZcACPcBGAYYCw/s1600/foxglove1.jpg" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (Foxglove--historic herb/flower)</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On December 4,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1619, 38 English settlers arrived at Berkeley Hundred about 8,000 acres on the north bank of the James River near Herring Creek in an area then known as Charles Cittie. It was about 20 miles upstream from Jamestown, where the first permanent settlement of the Colony of Virginia was established on May 14, 1607. The group’s charter required that the day of arrival be observed yearly as a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">day of thanksgiving to God. On that first day, Captain John Woodleaf held the service of thanksgiving.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">622 nine of the settlers at Berkeley Hundred were killed in a Native American uprising, as well as a third of the entire population of the Virginia Colony. The Berkeley Hundred site and other outlying locations were abandoned as the colonists withdrew to Jamestown and other more secure points. After several years, the site became </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Berkeley Plantation and was long the traditional home of the Harrison family, one of the First Families of Virginia. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dpw7UCLyLgE/War_xGYl7kI/AAAAAAAAFqw/8MeQr-qyqB0L-SV8oKIXyYPAg_l7esaugCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/colonial%2Bdancers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dpw7UCLyLgE/War_xGYl7kI/AAAAAAAAFqw/8MeQr-qyqB0L-SV8oKIXyYPAg_l7esaugCPcBGAYYCw/s320/colonial%2Bdancers.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Reenactors)</span></span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Benjamin Harrison, son of the builder of Berkeley and the plantation’s second owner, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and three-time Governor of Virginia. William Henry Harrison, Benjamin‘s third son, born at Berkeley, nicknamed Tippecanoe for his fame as an Indian fighter, later became the ninth President of the United States, in 1841. His grandson, Benjamin Harrison, was the 23rd President.</span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many famous founding fathers and mothers were guests at this gracious estate. For more on Berkeley Plantation and a fascinating glimpse into early America visit:</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.berkeleyplantation.com/" style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="http://www.berkeleyplantation.com/"> http://www.berkeleyplantation.com/</a> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And:</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.jamesriverplantations.org/Berkeley.html" style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="http://www.jamesriverplantations.org/Berkeley.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.jamesriverplantations.org/Berkeley.html</span></a></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">If<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> you have the opportunity to visit in person, by all means go.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vkwln5e6OHg/TGRNiasgr0I/AAAAAAAACUE/1D8cfy0RlVgCHBTm7NRHt96x-xZlM_STgCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/chipmunkonpumpkin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1299" data-original-width="1335" height="311" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vkwln5e6OHg/TGRNiasgr0I/AAAAAAAACUE/1D8cfy0RlVgCHBTm7NRHt96x-xZlM_STgCPcBGAYYCw/s320/chipmunkonpumpkin.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Chipmunk on pumpkin by my mother)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For more on my work please visit my Amazon Author Page: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6/">https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6/</a></span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font: 400 16px/23px Times New Roman; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font: 400 16px/23px Times New Roman; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-57979347980860684372019-10-28T04:14:00.000-07:002019-10-28T04:14:22.156-07:00Misty Mountains, Autumn Leaves, and Garden Tidying<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now and forever more I will associate the pungent minty scent of catnip with my fall garden. I'm in tidying mode, pulling weeds, grass, catnip seedlings, and struggling to root out large mounds of the fragrant herb. It's not that I dislike this old-time plant, not in the least. But several years ago, daughter Elise planted four clumps at either end of the vegetable plot to act as beneficial companions and attract pollinators, which catnip does well. Butterflies favor the blossoms and potato bugs can't sniff out their desired food when potato leaves intermingle with catnip. Since then, hundreds of their offspring have graced every corner of the garden. Flower beds also play host. I'm fond of this potent plant so leave seedlings here and there, and on it goes. Catnip will inherit the earth. So will mint, comfrey, and dill...but I love them all. And, of course, the cats are mad for it.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6tZeZpHonAg/XbXDPJGNaFI/AAAAAAAAVEc/RN2KI3vy0Ncpgjl2oHlWf84rt26MbpCOACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/catnip%2Bgrowing%2Bin%2Bwith%2Btansy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="831" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6tZeZpHonAg/XbXDPJGNaFI/AAAAAAAAVEc/RN2KI3vy0Ncpgjl2oHlWf84rt26MbpCOACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/catnip%2Bgrowing%2Bin%2Bwith%2Btansy.jpg" width="346" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Catnip growing in with tansy)</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We haven't had hard frost yet, but soon will. As I work outside, I pause to gaze over the meadow and hills rising beyond our farm and admire the changing leaves. Yesterday's overcast sky only muted the beauty--which I don't mind--and the mist made the mountains appear even more mysterious. While walking the dogs into the field I call the back forty, I summon halts to savor the beauty. The dogs stand, nose to the breeze tossing my hair, and sniff appreciatively. Country scents of cows and new mown grass float around us. Barnyard geese honk, birds call, and cows let me know they see us. Pockets of mist hovered between the hills this morning, the subdued bronze and orange in the trees showing through in places. When the sun comes out, these autumn hues will shine. The woods above our meadow are called 'Burnt Woods' by locals because of their flaming color in the sun. Glorious.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zQwbiqwJ9aI/XbXEKOAOMWI/AAAAAAAAVE4/x7bkd0QLEnoZqiDGueCZ6qpXCp1llytiQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/maple%2Btrees%2Bin%2Bour%2Bmeadow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zQwbiqwJ9aI/XbXEKOAOMWI/AAAAAAAAVE4/x7bkd0QLEnoZqiDGueCZ6qpXCp1llytiQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/maple%2Btrees%2Bin%2Bour%2Bmeadow.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Maples in our meadow)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mvBDftiRIN4/XbXETV0Av-I/AAAAAAAAVFA/1jbSBlj1Z_8IW2rYOx70X00iTjc7I_G_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/sugar%2Bmaple%2Btree%2Bat%2Bour%2Bpond.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mvBDftiRIN4/XbXETV0Av-I/AAAAAAAAVFA/1jbSBlj1Z_8IW2rYOx70X00iTjc7I_G_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/sugar%2Bmaple%2Btree%2Bat%2Bour%2Bpond.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Sugar maple at our pond)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-svqZRZBHhyo/XbXE9GP968I/AAAAAAAAVFQ/AasqqP3v7fAFac7YGArNKVnBo32uWDbUACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Up%2Bbehind%2Bour%2Bfarm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-svqZRZBHhyo/XbXE9GP968I/AAAAAAAAVFQ/AasqqP3v7fAFac7YGArNKVnBo32uWDbUACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Up%2Bbehind%2Bour%2Bfarm.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Hills and the neighbor's farm behind our pond. See the Old Order Mennonite Church?)</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9qUwXLRlc8U/XbXFPaurWvI/AAAAAAAAVFY/oXRnb2jsZaQLI9tU7RBthcmyhhizzs3fgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/mist%2Bbetween%2Bmountains.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9qUwXLRlc8U/XbXFPaurWvI/AAAAAAAAVFY/oXRnb2jsZaQLI9tU7RBthcmyhhizzs3fgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/mist%2Bbetween%2Bmountains.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Misty mountains in the distance seen on my walk with the dogs)</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meadowlarks still trill from the tall grass, reminding me of spring, while wild geese fly in V's overhead. I've left tangles of asters, bittersweet, and clematis in places in hopes of attracting the wrens who visited our feeder last year. They like a bit of untidiness, as do other birds.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QGCnnZZl-S8/XbXDg4LgSkI/AAAAAAAAVEk/e_zxsikAsiIpXBve_MqCaImmxUFKsagAwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/late%2Bdahlia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QGCnnZZl-S8/XbXDg4LgSkI/AAAAAAAAVEk/e_zxsikAsiIpXBve_MqCaImmxUFKsagAwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/late%2Bdahlia.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yvFkhhIvOBQ/XbXDvtLs9sI/AAAAAAAAVEo/yEOVMRvZyMI8E3vwWytgyKdMztUjevvIACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/late%2Bfall%2Basters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="875" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yvFkhhIvOBQ/XbXDvtLs9sI/AAAAAAAAVEo/yEOVMRvZyMI8E3vwWytgyKdMztUjevvIACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/late%2Bfall%2Basters.jpg" width="363" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Fall asters and last of the dahlias above)</span></div>
<div align="center">
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UIrNeQnG0wI/XbXD_26ujFI/AAAAAAAAVE0/1YFDsvicbrQ6pl5uPnXu2EQ1Lt4jHaROACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/late%2Bground%2Brose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UIrNeQnG0wI/XbXD_26ujFI/AAAAAAAAVE0/1YFDsvicbrQ6pl5uPnXu2EQ1Lt4jHaROACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/late%2Bground%2Brose.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(late ground rose)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HOFNzQNQcm0/XbXGPT7qbXI/AAAAAAAAVFw/Le3LOdVf0rM3Ta-5dVg54YmkSLwazQGkQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/pocket%2Bof%2Bflowers%2Bin%2Bfall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HOFNzQNQcm0/XbXGPT7qbXI/AAAAAAAAVFw/Le3LOdVf0rM3Ta-5dVg54YmkSLwazQGkQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/pocket%2Bof%2Bflowers%2Bin%2Bfall.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Pocket of flowers)</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been on a bulb planting craze lately, hiding them like Easter eggs to discover in the raw winds of March and balmier days of April and May. These early flowers elicit such joy, how can I resist adding more? I also sprinkled hardy annual flower seeds around for spring color like larkspur, violas, wall flowers, poppies, and sweet alyssum. Spinach is seeded for early greens. By late winter, we're starving for them. This is when the new leaves of dandelions are appreciated for cooked greens.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hubby Dennis's mother made a wonderful creamy dressing to pour over dandelion greens with bacon and hard boiled eggs. That stuff made anything good. I found her recipe in an old cook book. I could post it for you in spring. She also used it on watercress. One unfortunate spring, the whole Trissel family, apart from baby Dennis, contracted typhoid fever from consuming contaminated water cress. Seems a man who lived above the spring where the cress grew was a typhoid Mary type of carrier with a leaky outhouse. Who knew? All of the family survived because new medicines were available by the early fifties.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back to the garden. This garden was my mother-in-law's before I became its caretaker. The first years that Mom Trissel and Dennis's father lived at the farm they had no indoor plumbing and only one electric outlet. She boiled up her wash in an outdoor kettle. And this old farmhouse was built soon after the Civil War. But that's another story. There are many tales to tell from this beautiful valley.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ds7vikLwd1I/XbXFrWz5iRI/AAAAAAAAVFk/LU6Wu6cy1-sDXdZGkEnHkn_DBijTI_9XACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Knicely%2Bfarm%2Band%2Bhills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ds7vikLwd1I/XbXFrWz5iRI/AAAAAAAAVFk/LU6Wu6cy1-sDXdZGkEnHkn_DBijTI_9XACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Knicely%2Bfarm%2Band%2Bhills.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Our land leading to another farm and the hills seen on our dog walk)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_OQDn7ErYA/XbXGdbDLP5I/AAAAAAAAVF0/vGGqhdPKuJwFKewgGL7zlGgs23kGSCEgACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/gorgeous%2Btree%2Bat%2BCooks%2BCreek%2BChurch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_OQDn7ErYA/XbXGdbDLP5I/AAAAAAAAVF0/vGGqhdPKuJwFKewgGL7zlGgs23kGSCEgACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/gorgeous%2Btree%2Bat%2BCooks%2BCreek%2BChurch.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Gorgeous trees at the church up the road from our farm)</span></div>
<br />
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. ~Faith Baldwin, </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">American Family</i></span></span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-76278893755511780592019-07-28T04:43:00.000-07:002019-07-28T04:43:01.439-07:00Need a Little Humor in your Life?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; cursor: text; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These funny Mom texts (below) gave me a hearty chuckle. I totally get the difficulty with texting (autocorrect) and haven't even attempted voice text. Navigating the world of acronyms and emoticons is perilous. Uncharted territory. My advice: 'when in doubt, don't'. But you can't always help it. Like yesterday, I'm in the garden taking flower pics with my nifty iPhone (from my last birthday) when I spot weeds taunting me. I tuck the phone under my arm and bend down. After a few minutes an alarm blares. I'm so startled I nearly fall into the beans I haven't picked. Yet. I will.</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What the heck? It's coming from my phone and there's a red emergency SOS threatening to send. Or did it already go out? Insert panicked bad word here.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't turn the phone off fast enough. Are cop cars gonna roll into my yard demanding the nature of my emergency? I didn't even know the phone had an alarm, let alone how to engage it. I do now.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a monster this deceptively innocent device can be.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, and then there's the whole Mom Memory thing. I nearly forgot to mention it.</span></div>
</div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/goat-at-alisons.jpg" style="color: #0060ff;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-33240" height="521" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/goat-at-alisons.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="449" /></span></a></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom</strong>: Hi Bridget I space space space space how space are space you space doing period capitol eye love this new phone exclamation point</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Bridget</strong>: I see you're using voice text. You don't have to say space Mom it does it for you.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom</strong>: I cucumber lettuce pea Ritalin</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Bridget:</strong> What? Mom stop just type.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">****</span></strong></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom</strong>: Andy, I can't find my phone. Can you call it so I can track it down?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Andy</strong>: I don't even have time to be quippy, Mom. It's in your hand.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom:</strong> What? No it's not. I've got a bag of groceries in my hand. Are you saying it's in the grocery bag? How do you know these things?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Andy:</strong> WHAT ARE YOU TEXTING ME WITH?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom:</strong> Never mind. I found it. Thanks!</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">****</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Daughter:</strong> Mom where are you???</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom</strong>: Leaving Walmart. Halfway home. Why sweetie?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Daughter:</strong> You brought me to Walmart with you...</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom:</strong> Oh DARN! Be there in a bit!</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<strong><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/goat-sitting-on-its-house.jpg" style="color: #0060ff;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-33243" height="586" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/goat-sitting-on-its-house.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="477" /></span></a></strong></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Madre:</strong> I left my friggin charger in Dayton.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom</strong>: Do you know how worried I've been?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Madre</strong>: Mom I'm sorry. I couldn't get a hold of you.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mom</b>: I almost broke the treaty to be sure you were OK.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Madre:</strong> What treaty? MOM ARE YOU QUOTING TWILIGHT AT ME?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom:</strong> Yes.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">****</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom:</strong> Your great Aunt just passed away. LOL</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>David:</strong> Why is that funny?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom:</strong> It's not funny David! What do you mean?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>David</strong>: Mom lol means laughing out loud!</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom:</strong> Oh my goodness! I sent that to everyone. I thought it meant lots of love! I have to call everyone back. Oh God.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">****</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom:</strong> Please stop changing the google logo so much. I like the original one.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Son:</strong> Mom I don't change the logo. Google changes it.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom</strong>: You don't run the google?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Son:</strong> If I did I wouldn't be driving a 2004 ford.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/goat-2.jpg" style="color: #0060ff;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-33246" height="599" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/goat-2.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="480" /></span></a></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Son to his Mum:</span></strong></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, you've entered the digital age and got a smartphone!</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How is it?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mum?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Helloooooo???</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why aren't you answering?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mum:</strong> Howdoyoudoaspace?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">****</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Son</strong>: Got an A in chemistry!</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom:</strong> WTF, well done!!</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Son:</strong> What do you think WTF means?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom</strong>: Well that's fantastic!</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">****</span></strong></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom</strong>: Good morning beautiful. :) xoxo Your imaginary boyfriend.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Daughter</strong>: Thanks Mom</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<strong><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/funny-goat.jpg" style="color: #0060ff;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-33248" height="415" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/funny-goat.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="415" /></span></a></strong></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom</strong>: Hi Honey how was your day? 8=======D</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Daughter</strong>: WTF Mom! Why'd you type a penis emoticon???</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom:</strong> I don't know what you mean. 8=======D is an alien smiley face.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Daughter</strong>: No it's not! It's a penis. Who told you that?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom:</strong> Well I saw it in some of your brother's texts to his girlfriend and when I asked he said it was an alien. Wait so 8=======D~ { (0) } isn't a space alien getting on a ship?</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Daughter:</strong> No Mom it isn't.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">****</span></strong></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom:</strong> I'm learning how to hashtag!</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Son:</strong> That's great, Mom.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Mom</strong>: Hashtag conversation with son</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">****</span></strong></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are a lot of these hilarious Mom texts online. I laughed out loud. LOL.</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't write comedy but I do have a keen sense of humor which comes out in my books. For more on me please follow my Amazon Author Page:</span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em;">
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6" style="color: #0060ff;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6</span></a><br />
<br />
<br />
***Goats like to sit on rather than in their house.</div>
</div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-6720217640599382462019-06-28T04:27:00.001-07:002019-06-28T04:27:34.286-07:00“If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” ~Vincent Van Gogh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-33194" height="500" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/roses-beaded-wiht-rain.jpg?w=500" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both; color: black; cursor: move; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: auto; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" width="500" /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It is at the edge of a petal that love waits." ~William Carlos Williams</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; cursor: text; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a hushed moment after sunrise the sun touched the garden and everything was new and perfect. Then the sun rose higher and I saw the Japanese beetles. They love the same plants I do, like roses. Despite my annual battle with these noxious pests, my garden is a little bit of Eden. I tripled my efforts outdoors this year after my dear father's passing. The Memorial Garden reminds me of a painting as it unfolds. Gardening is a living form of art.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neglected corners remain in the yard, but gardening is an ongoing journey. I'm eyeing the long border along the road with ideas for improvements I might make late summer or fall. Efforts there must be undertaken with caution because of the road monster. </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/breadseed-poppy.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33195" height="300" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/breadseed-poppy.jpg?w=300" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></a>(Breadseed Poppy--seed originally from Monticello)</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did any of you see <em style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; font-style: italic;">Finding Neverland</em> years ago, starring a young Johnny Depp as Author J. M. Barrie? Excellent film, made before Depp went off the rails. Near the end of the movie, Kate Winslet, who portrays the mother of the boy who inspired Barrie to write <em style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; font-style: italic;">Peter Pan</em>, enters the wondrous Neverland set Barrie has created. (Peter Pan began as a play in 1904.) At times, when I go into the garden, surrounded by magical beauty, it reminds me a bit of that scene.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's nothing quite like a near perfect day in the garden. I say 'near' because perfection is elusive and my idea of a magical garden excursion may not be yours. But when the cerulean sky reaches to heaven, flowers sparkle like jewels, and leafy green enfolds me, I am uplifted. In that moment, I am happy.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/blue-delphinium.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33196" height="300" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/blue-delphinium.jpg?w=300" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">All winter and spring I dreamed of delphinium spires. This is 'Million Dollar Blue,' an improved kind from Wayside Gardens, more heat and cold tolerant.</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On blue sky days, the ridges rise clearly beyond the wooded hills. Country noises fill air pungent with farm smells sweetened by herbs and flowers. Meadow larks trill from tall grass, bees hum, and butterflies flit. I chase them with my camera.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When a new birds calls, we must know what kind it is--recently an oriole. Red Winged black birds have a distinct cry. They mostly stay at the pond but sometimes visit our back garden. Goose squawks resound except during afternoon siestas beneath the pear trees. Never mind, I spoke too soon. Our two buddy brother roosters peck around and crow, a lot. A typical country sound.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We still hear cows. Young ones will remain until old enough to go, but we had to sell our dairy herd--sad sigh. We're remaining on the farm, thank the good Lord. Son Cory will raise beef cows while Hubby Dennis runs his farm machinery business. As for me, I will garden, cherish my friends and family, and write again. Not much to report on that front, but I'm beginning to miss writing, an inherent part of who I am. Or was. I know Dad wouldn't want me to give it up. His death, on top of my brother Chad's, threw me more than I can say, but I'm slowly mending, largely with the help of garden therapy. I've come to realize missing them will ever be woven into the fabric of my life.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This country scene may not strike some as idyllic, but it's heaven on earth to me.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/barn-wiht-hollyhock-in-front.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33197" height="300" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/barn-wiht-hollyhock-in-front.jpg?w=300" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hollyhocks set off our barn in this pic. I used to call it 'the old red barn' until Cory redid it in white. A decorative barn quilt adds color to the front.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/bathsheba-climbing-rose-by-david-austin.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33198" height="300" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/bathsheba-climbing-rose-by-david-austin.jpg?w=300" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></a>(Bathsheba climbing rose from David Austin)</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." ~John Muir</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright." ~Henry David Thoreau</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/red-admirel-butterfly-1.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33199" height="300" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/red-admirel-butterfly-1.jpg?w=300" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></a>(Red Admiral Butterfly on mini buddleia from Jackson and Perkins)</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fuzzy bumble bee (pictured below on larkspur) reminds me of a tiny teddy bear. The heirloom larkspur has been here longer than I have. The flowers come in blue,white, pink, and purple. A hardy annual, it reseeds for the next spring.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All images were taken this month by me.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/bumble-bee-on-larkspur.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33204" height="300" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/bumble-bee-on-larkspur.jpg?w=300" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." ~Rachel Carson</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." ~ e.e. cummings</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-55574387538585230102019-02-26T07:41:00.002-08:002019-02-26T07:42:31.051-08:00Signs of Spring<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">"<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden." ~Ruth Stout</span></span></span></span><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MU3uT7FlB2g/XHR91lUFqOI/AAAAAAAAPyo/ooUazlp6rlQ7PXFrVnSVD4XjCsw0_oiiQCLcBGAs/s1600/snowdrops%2Bin%2Bleaves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MU3uT7FlB2g/XHR91lUFqOI/AAAAAAAAPyo/ooUazlp6rlQ7PXFrVnSVD4XjCsw0_oiiQCLcBGAs/s400/snowdrops%2Bin%2Bleaves.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By late February, my spirit yearns for warmth, color, the earth reborn...</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A flush of green tinges the meadow, a hopeful indication. I've started seeds in the greenhouse and, to my delight, most are coming up. Baby violas are potted in readiness, with the promise of more diminutive pansies to follow. Flats of sweet alyssum will go out among the earliest flowers to perfume the air and attract pollinators. Spinach and cabbage seedlings await transplanting. Parsley is showing its face. I'll seed more herbs and vegetables soon, like heirloom lettuce, basil, sweet peppers, and tomatoes. I may even start peas indoors this year because our soil is so wet they may rot otherwise. We've had a drenched winter after last year's drought, and the weather shows no indication of letting up. No one wants a drought again, just 'normal' weather. Daughter Elise and I are<span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> sorting through seed packets from last year and carefully ordering more. The greenhouse will soon burst with new life.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></span></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EgzPWZrOuQU/XHR-BiJ9cvI/AAAAAAAAPys/Xxop0W7s_8UJaIqmJ9TcxHwKn-S1JZbtgCLcBGAs/s1600/snow%2Bcrocus%2Bin%2Bdry%2Bleaves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EgzPWZrOuQU/XHR-BiJ9cvI/AAAAAAAAPys/Xxop0W7s_8UJaIqmJ9TcxHwKn-S1JZbtgCLcBGAs/s400/snow%2Bcrocus%2Bin%2Bdry%2Bleaves.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Every spring is the only spring — a perpetual astonishment." ~Ellis Peters</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the flower beds, the tiny white snowdrop buds will open into pendulous bells. Fuzzy catkins line pussywillow branches like the tiny kittens they're named for. Daffodils, tulips, and the green points of crocus leaves are emerging. Early snow crocus will soon appear. It's my dream, as Elise knows, to have masses of crocus everywhere, filling the yard. How splendid that would be. A great trumpet of spring.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WOJAAMc-kYg/XHR-YJqZokI/AAAAAAAAPy4/teFUOCzwOIQPFw8W2D1QqzGiI1zXqB34gCLcBGAs/s1600/violas%2Band%2Bcrocus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WOJAAMc-kYg/XHR-YJqZokI/AAAAAAAAPy4/teFUOCzwOIQPFw8W2D1QqzGiI1zXqB34gCLcBGAs/s400/violas%2Band%2Bcrocus.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow." ~Proverb</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>On the book front:</b></span></span><br />
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the first time since its publication by the Wild Rose Press in July 2017, <em style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; font-style: italic;">Somewhere My Lady</em> is on sale at all major online booksellers with the exception of Kobo and was a featured Bookbub deal. Sale ends March 1st.</span></span></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"></span></span>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/190214-somewhere-my-lady-ad-2-1.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-33054" height="262" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/190214-somewhere-my-lady-ad-2-1.jpg?w=500" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="500" /></span></a></span></span></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Story Blurb</strong>:</span></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lorna Randolph is hired for the summer at Harrison Hall in Virginia, where Revolutionary-War reenactors provide guided tours of the elegant old home. She doesn't expect to receive a note and a kiss from a handsome young man who then vanishes into mist.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Harrison Hall itself has plans for Lorna – and for Hart Harrison, her momentary suitor and its 18th century heir. Past and present are bound by pledges of love, and modern science melds with old skills and history as Harrison Hall takes Lorna and Hart through time in a race to solve a mystery and save Hart's life before the Midsummer Ball.~</span></div>
</span><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Somewhere My Lady is on sale for 0.99 from 2/15 through 3/01 at:</span></strong></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Amazon in Kindle at: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-Lady-Ladies-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B071VTNC7V">https://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-Lady-Ladies-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B071VTNC7V</a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At Barnes & Noble in Nookbook at: <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/somewhere-my-lady-beth-trissel/1126418713?ean=2940157225872">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/somewhere-my-lady-beth-trissel/1126418713?ean=2940157225872</a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At iTunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/somewhere-my-lady/id1241587669">https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/somewhere-my-lady/id1241587669</a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At Google Play: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Beth_Trissel_Somewhere_My_Lady?id=1JoqDwAAQBAJ&hl=en">https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Beth_Trissel_Somewhere_My_Lady?id=1JoqDwAAQBAJ&hl=en</a></span></span></div>
</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Spring stirs under silent snow." ~Terri Guillemets</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8JKiIo8LDyA/XHSCd9G0qvI/AAAAAAAAPzE/nLiMmiDStlgSnm9npUnF-ClQ1Mf3_pYbgCLcBGAs/s1600/vintage-violas-from-seed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="500" height="266" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8JKiIo8LDyA/XHSCd9G0qvI/AAAAAAAAPzE/nLiMmiDStlgSnm9npUnF-ClQ1Mf3_pYbgCLcBGAs/s400/vintage-violas-from-seed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
</span><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span>***Images from last spring's garden</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<br /></div>
</div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-19375093960386926342019-02-16T05:29:00.000-08:002019-02-16T06:48:58.385-08:00#Timetravel #Romance Somewhere My Lady on .99 Sale!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wa9uAdyTVyo/XGgPWjMPVGI/AAAAAAAAPx4/yH1zi-qt2DkKcucX1ZkLryqjpy7OVw0KACLcBGAs/s1600/190214-somewhere-my-lady-ad-2-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wa9uAdyTVyo/XGgPWjMPVGI/AAAAAAAAPx4/yH1zi-qt2DkKcucX1ZkLryqjpy7OVw0KACLcBGAs/s1600/190214-somewhere-my-lady-ad-2-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wa9uAdyTVyo/XGgPWjMPVGI/AAAAAAAAPx4/yH1zi-qt2DkKcucX1ZkLryqjpy7OVw0KACLcBGAs/s1600/190214-somewhere-my-lady-ad-2-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" height="331" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wa9uAdyTVyo/XGgPWjMPVGI/AAAAAAAAPx4/yH1zi-qt2DkKcucX1ZkLryqjpy7OVw0KACLcBGAs/s640/190214-somewhere-my-lady-ad-2-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the first time since its publication by the Wild Rose Press in July 2017, <em style="line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Somewhere My Lady</em> is on sale at all major online booksellers with the exception of Kobo. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look for it as a featured Bookbub deal on Sunday February 17th.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Story Blurb</strong>:</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lorna Randolph is hired for the summer at Harrison Hall in Virginia, where Revolutionary-War reenactors provide guided tours of the elegant old home. She doesn't expect to receive a note and a kiss from a handsome young man who then vanishes into mist.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Harrison Hall itself has plans for Lorna – and for Hart Harrison, her momentary suitor and its 18th century heir. Past and present are bound by pledges of love, and modern science melds with old skills and history as Harrison Hall takes Lorna and Hart through time in a race to solve a mystery and save Hart's life before the Midsummer Ball.~</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Somewhere My Lady is on sale for 0.99 from 2/15 through 3/01 at:</span></strong></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Amazon in Kindle at: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-Lady-Ladies-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B071VTNC7V">https://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-Lady-Ladies-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B071VTNC7V</a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At Barnes & Noble in Nookbook at: <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/somewhere-my-lady-beth-trissel/1126418713?ean=2940157225872">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/somewhere-my-lady-beth-trissel/1126418713?ean=2940157225872</a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At iTunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/somewhere-my-lady/id1241587669">https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/somewhere-my-lady/id1241587669</a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At Google Play: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Beth_Trissel_Somewhere_My_Lady?id=1JoqDwAAQBAJ&hl=en">https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Beth_Trissel_Somewhere_My_Lady?id=1JoqDwAAQBAJ&hl=en</a></span></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-349993088118283592019-01-19T07:40:00.002-08:002019-01-19T08:13:49.058-08:00 In the Midst of Winter–Wrens!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since summer, we have had a tippy-tailed little bird bobbing around the back garden and visiting the feeder that hangs near the pussy willow. As winter closes in on us--and it looks to be a cold one--we hear bird song. And it's not only our mental mockingbird.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/house-wren-1.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-32985" height="437" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/house-wren-1.jpg?w=500" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="500" /></a>(Royalty free image of house wren. I haven't gotten a good pic of ours yet)</span></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday, I spied the singer up in the crabapple tree. Today, he sang from the pussy willow. But the really fun thing is that there's a half-dozen wrens darting about. Never before have we had a flock of wrens. Must be my reward for planting more native wildflowers, and leaving evergreen shrubs unpruned until they are massive. Last years garden growth remains for spring cleaning. Tansy, catnip, massive native asters, parsley, seed heads...are still out there. Rather, a tangle. The moral of this gardening story is, if you're untidy you get wrens.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've added peanut butter, suet, and apples to the feeding choices in the back garden, though the wrens seem happy with sunflower seeds. When it gets bitter, I will refill the bird bath often and add extra fruit to the meld. My hope is to attract more fun birds.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/geraniums-on-sunspace-with-snow-outisde.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-32983" height="500" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/geraniums-on-sunspace-with-snow-outisde.jpg?w=500" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="500" /></a>(Inside looking out from our sunspace. Geraniums love it)</span></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This past summer, especially late summer/fall, we had scores of butterflies visit the garden as a result of the copious flowers. They visited coreopsis, zinnias, coneflowers, bee balm, Queen Anne's Lace, black-eyed Susan, phlox, tithonia, catnip, thyme., and many more offerings. The biggest bird draw were all the sunflowers, but they also like the flower seed heads. Insect eaters have plenty of bugs. Bees were also frequent garden visitors. The beautiful rose-colored flowering buckwheat was a hit and will make a return to the garden.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/red-admirel-butterfly-on-cone-flowers.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-27892" height="500" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/red-admirel-butterfly-on-cone-flowers.jpg?w=500" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 2px; max-width: 100%;" width="500" /></span></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Cone flower with Red Admiral Butterfly in the garden)</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This spring, cleaning up and cutting back old growth awaits us, and some mulching. Replanting will follow. Winter takes its toll. But we are well on our way to a nature habitat.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hubby Dennis is fixing up my greenhouse and will add a heat source. I am giddy at the thought of soon being back in there. I might even grow edibles.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reports and pics to come.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-49876767223853211852019-01-09T05:10:00.000-08:002019-01-09T05:10:03.782-08:00Release Day and the Story Behind #timetravel #romance Secret Lady (Part Two)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><em style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; font-style: italic;">Secret Lady</em> is based on events that occurred to my ancestors and my husband’s Mennonite forebears during the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/secretlady-resized.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-32827" height="640" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/secretlady-resized.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 2px; max-width: 100%;" width="427" /></span></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Historical accounts from the Civil War are a huge part of the inspiration behind <em style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; font-style: italic;">Secret Lady</em>. I grew up hearing about the war and its enormous impact on the family, and knew it would inevitably become the focus of a story or two. But the initial challenge to write this story didn’t come from the war.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My eldest daughter, Alison, told me of the uncanny connection she and her friend, Cristin, have with the creepy closet in our house. It is, in fact, the only closet. Old homes were built without them, and it’s a slightly more modern addition. Throughout her childhood, Alison was terrified of this walk-in, but duck your head space, particularly unfortunate as it occupied the far-right corner of her bedroom. The extra creepy factor is the entry to hidden parts of the house lies at the back corner of the closet. Alison learned that Cristin, as a child, had recurring dreams (nightmares) about a closet in an old boxy white farmhouse that strongly resembled ours. In her dreams, Cristin ventured up the stairs, traveled to the end of the hall, and entered the last bedroom. She feared a black antique trunk (check—we have one from my great-grandfather) in the closet at the far right of the room where a disturbing presence dwelled. It wasn't a huge leap to conceive a heroine with similar fears.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Story Blurb:</strong></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At Lavender House, Evie McIntyre is haunted by the whispers from her bedroom closet. Before she can make sense of their murmurs, the house "warbles" between times and transports her to the Civil War. Past and present have blended, and Evie wishes she'd paid more attention to history. Especially since former Confederate officer, Jack Ramsey, could use a heads up.</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Torn between opposing forces, Jack struggles to defend the valley and people he loves. Meeting Evie turns his already tumultuous world upside down. Will solving the mystery of the whispers return her home, and will the handsome scout be by her side?</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Against the background of Sheridan's Burning of the Shenandoah Valley, Jack and Evie fight to save their friends and themselves – or is history carved in stone?</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Excerpt:</span></strong></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/lavender-sachet.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13079" height="216" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/lavender-sachet.jpg" style="display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin: 0.5em 1.7em 2px 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="258" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">She took a steadying breath, turned the brass knob, and stepped into the room. The fragrance of lavender greeted her. Grandma G. had tucked sachets under her mattress to help her sleep and left small cloth bags in the drawers of an antique dresser. A sachet of apricot scented agrimony lay beneath her pillow.</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This age-old herb was thought to induce slumber and offer protection against the dark forces. Other powerful herbs scented the room. Angelica, St. John’s Wort, and sage were in the bunch on the bedside stand beside the antique brass lamp with an ornamental white shade.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The walk-in, but duck your head, closet at the far side of the room summoned her. Boxes of Christmas decorations, a Santa, and reindeer figures stored inside the slanted nook partially hid the steps leading to the attic and the presence she swore was there. She hadn’t encountered the being in question. Yet. It wasn’t cool for a nineteen-year-old to harbor terrors of a closet, but she did.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She threw her hands up after a particularly loud summons. “What do you want from me?”</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a rap on the downstairs door. ~</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="clear: left; color: black; float: left; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-25808" height="225" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/old-books.jpg?w=300" style="display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin: 0.5em 1.7em 2px 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><em style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; font-style: italic;">Secret Lady</em> is out today in print and eBook from <a href="https://catalog.thewildrosepress.com/all-titles/6411-secret-lady.html">The Wild Rose Press</a> and available from all major online booksellers.</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Lady-Ladies-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B07KNL7K3Z">https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Lady-Ladies-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B07KNL7K3Z</a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">In Nook Book:<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/secret-lady-beth-trissel/1129945225?ean=2940161956564"> https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/secret-lady-beth-trissel/1129945225?ean=2940161956564</a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At iTunes:<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/secret-lady/id1444455068?mt=11"> https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/secret-lady/id1444455068?mt=11</a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At Google Play: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Beth_Trissel_Secret_Lady?id=s-2BDwAAQBAJ&hl=en">https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Beth_Trissel_Secret_Lady?id=s-2BDwAAQBAJ&hl=en</a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At Kobo:<a href="https://www.kobo.com/si/en/ebook/secret-lady"> https://www.kobo.com/si/en/ebook/secret-lady</a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are interested in reviewing, leave me a comment or contact me. bctrissel@yahoo.com</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1.7em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
</div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-2817750213468479252018-11-26T06:52:00.003-08:002018-11-26T06:52:43.772-08:00Secret Lady Is Out In Pre-order #CivilWar #TimeTravel #Romance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Secret Lady (Book 3, Ladies in Time)</i> is a mystery/adventure time travel romance with carefully researched history and enough paranormal to categorize the story as fantasy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/secretlady-resized-again.jpg"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-32848" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/secretlady-resized-again.jpg" width="267" /></span></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I drew inspiration for <em>Secret Lady</em> from events that occurred to my ancestors and my husband's Mennonite forebears and their peers during the Civil War. The setting is the beautiful richly historic Shenandoah Valley where we live on a farm that has been in his family for four generations. Familiarity with earlier releases in the series isn't necessary as I began a new thread.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Blurb</strong>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Torn apart by time, reunited by flames.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At Lavender House, Evie McIntyre is haunted by the whispers from her bedroom closet. Before she can make sense of their murmurs, the house "warbles" between times and transports her to the Civil War. Past and present have blended, and Evie wishes she'd paid more attention to history. Especially since former Confederate officer, Jack Ramsey, could use a heads up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Torn between opposing forces, Jack struggles to defend the valley and people he loves. Meeting Evie turns his already tumultuous world upside down. Will solving the mystery of the whispers return her home, and will the handsome scout be by her side?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Against the background of Sheridan's Burning of the Shenandoah Valley, Jack and Evie fight to save their friends and themselves – or is history carved in stone?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/our-pond-in-august-2018.jpg"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32885" height="300" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/our-pond-in-august-2018.jpg?w=300" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Image from our farm)</span></div>
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Excerpt</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“They brought the draft back?” This was it. She had officially lost her mind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It never went away. Where have you been, miss? More to the point, who are you?” His gruff demand stirred the hair at her cheek.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She tilted her face at him. Only the barest outline of his strong features was visible, and yet… Man, was he hot. <em>Focus Evie</em>. “I told you. I’m Evie McIntyre. I live here with my grandmother. Didn’t you realize?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“That so? I don’t suppose you would be a spy in a Mennonite house. Still. Never know. I best get a good look at you.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Who would I be spying for?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Rebs. Neither side wishes me well. I’m in no man’s land.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her heart drummed wildly. “Where does that leave me?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“That’s the question, isn’t it?” He steadied Evie on her feet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> </em><em>Was it</em>? She had no idea what was going on and watched dazedly as he took something from the leather pouch hanging over his shoulder. “What’s that?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Lucifers.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He’d lost her again. There must be a powerful resistance movement at work. She didn’t follow politics. Maybe she should. Had matters come to an explosive head tonight? Why hadn’t her grandmother said something?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He drew what resembled matches from a small metal container and struck one. Sulfurous sparks added pungency to the room. He lit the stubby candle in a tin lantern on an end table. Shadows danced from the pale taper glowing through the punches in the metal. Pretty, how the light made patterns on the ceiling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> </em><em>Wait</em>. Where had that lantern come from?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The stained-glass lamp Grandma G. treasured was just there before she went to bed. <em>Dear God in heaven</em>. What had happened to the room?~</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/fallpic20091.jpg"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7135" height="225" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/fallpic20091.jpg?w=300" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Our farm)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Release date for<em> Secret Lady</em> is 2019-01-09. The novel is in pre-order at Amazon now: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Lady-Ladies-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B07KNL7K3Z/">https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Lady-Ladies-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B07KNL7K3Z/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">***On release day, <em>Secret Lady</em> will be available in print as well as kindle and in eBook from all other online booksellers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-60803624428098629802018-11-17T10:48:00.000-08:002018-11-26T07:03:44.734-08:00Fascinating Story Behind Secret Lady (Book 3 Ladies in Time)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many stories lie at the heart of my upcoming January 9th release, time travel romance <em>Secret Lady (Book 3 Ladies in Time</em>) from The Wild Rose Press. The characters in this mystery/adventure aren't related to the first two releases in the series as I began a new thread. While strongly historical, <em>Secret Lady</em> has enough paranormal in it to categorize the story as fantasy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/secretlady-resized.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-32827" height="640" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/secretlady-resized.jpg" width="427" /></span></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The setting for <em>Secret Lady</em> is as close to home as I can get, our old farm-house (with a slight upgrade) in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I transformed our lush dairy farm into ‘Lavender and Lace Herb Farm’ and relocated it several miles up the road on the farm we once rented. During the Civil War, horses were hidden in the Alpine like woods beyond the house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/our-farmhouse-and-mid-summer-garden.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-32831" height="352" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/our-farmhouse-and-mid-summer-garden.jpg?w=500" width="500" /></a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Our house with the wild midsummer garden by Elise)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/near-our-farm.jpg"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-32829" height="375" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/near-our-farm.jpg?w=500" width="500" /></a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Behind our farm by hubby Dennis)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/our-pond-in-fall.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-32832" height="375" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/our-pond-in-fall.jpg?w=500" width="500" /></a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Our pond by Dennis)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I gleaned inspiration for the story from events that occurred to my ancestors and my husband’s family, and their peers during the Civil War. My great-great-grandfather fought at Gettysburg and was captured at Pickett’s Charge, but the focus of this story is our richly historic valley. I grew up hearing about The Burning (autumn 1864) when Major General Philip Sheridan brought hard war to our green valley, called The Bread Basket of the Confederacy. In Sheridan’s ruthless destruction of farms, livestock, and supplies that might sustain Rebel troops, he unleashed Hell on countless innocents. Among the greatest sufferers in Rockingham County were the peaceful Mennonites, my husband’s ancestors among them. These plain, hardworking people are my adopted people and a vital part of the book.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/in-front-of-our-farm-by-dennis.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-32833" height="375" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/in-front-of-our-farm-by-dennis.jpg?w=500" width="500" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Old-Order Mennonite Buggy Passing our farm. Image by Dennis)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our farm stands where the worst of The Burning took place, and it occurred to me that our Victorian house might have been built soon after the Civil War because its predecessor was destroyed. We knew our home dated at least to the mid 1870’s from an elderly woman who visited here decades ago and said she was born in the house. We dated our home even earlier after finding it on an 1866 map, plus our bank barn has original features that pin it to that era.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/our-old-barn-with-quilt.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-32828" height="500" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/our-old-barn-with-quilt.jpg?w=500" width="500" /></a>(</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our old barn. Image by Beth. It used to be red.)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This past spring, in what was my last conversation with my father-in-law before his death, I asked him if he knew of a farm that once stood on our land that might have been destroyed during The Burning. His adamant ‘yes!’ surprised my husband who wasn’t aware of its existence. However, hubby never asked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dad Trissel told us he used to walk back the long lane that leads behind our farm up to the wooded hills beyond and there he saw the remains of a burned-out farm (woods have since overgrown the site). He also told us our farm used to encompass that land which was later parceled off. We decided to walk back to the woods and search for any remnants from the past. Fortunately, we chose April for our exploration as the only trace of earlier dwellers our untrained eyes could detect were the faithful daffodils outlining what must once have been a house, barn, and outbuildings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Daffodil discovery in dry early spring before rains came with me and granddaughter Emma.)</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/emma-and-beth-and-daffodils-in-woods.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-32842" height="340" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/emma-and-beth-and-daffodils-in-woods.jpg?w=500" width="500" /></a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/daffodils-in-the-woods.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-32841" height="333" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/daffodils-in-the-woods.jpg?w=500" width="500" /></span></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If we had chosen any other season for our walk, we wouldn’t have noted anything. We later learned foundation stones and usable timber were reused in rebuilding homes and barns after The Burning. Scavengers must have been at work, and nature has taken a toll over the years. I’m not sure what my father-in-law saw in the nineteen forties, but more than we did. The daffodils are an heirloom variety that used to grow in my garden, likely from those same bulbs. Not appreciating their historic value, I replaced them with more attractive varieties and must restore these blooms to a spot in the yard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More research is needed to determine whether the farm behind us was, indeed, burned during Sheridan’s infamous valley campaign and whether that family built our present house or fled, and another took their place in the building. We learned the road that runs in front of our house used to cut through the meadow, which would account for a farm being located back there. The stream ran beside it those days, and springs also provided water. It could be as Dad Trissel said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A strong sense of history hangs over the woods, our farm, and our fair valley called Shenandoah, ‘Daughter of the Stars.’ Fiery war once raged here, but we survived and rebuilt. Of course, we did, we’re Virginians.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/cows-in-our-meadow.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-32834" height="385" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/cows-in-our-meadow.jpg?w=500" width="500" /></a>(</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(The valley much as it would have looked then. Image by daughter Elise)</span></div>
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Secret Lady Story Blurb: </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Torn apart by time, reunited by flames.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At Lavender House, Evie McIntyre is haunted by the whispers from her bedroom closet. Before she can make sense of their murmurs, the house "warbles" between times and transports her to the Civil War. Past and present have blended, and Evie wishes she'd paid more attention to history. Especially since former Confederate officer, Jack Ramsey, could use a heads up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Torn between opposing forces, Jack struggles to defend the valley and people he loves. Meeting Evie turns his already tumultuous world upside down. Will solving the mystery of the whispers return her home, and will the handsome scout be by her side?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Against the background of Sheridan's Burning of the Shenandoah Valley, Jack and Evie fight to save their friends and themselves – or is history carved in stone?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Excerpt: </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She took a steadying breath, turned the brass knob, and stepped into the room. The fragrance of lavender greeted her. Grandma G. had tucked sachets under her mattress to help her sleep and left small cloth bags in the drawers of an antique dresser. A sachet of apricot scented agrimony lay beneath her pillow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This age-old herb was thought to induce slumber and offer protection against the dark forces. Other powerful herbs scented the room. Angelica, St. John’s Wort, and sage were in the bunch on the bedside stand beside the antique brass lamp with an ornamental white shade.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The walk-in, but duck your head, closet at the far side of the room summoned her. Boxes of Christmas decorations, a Santa, and reindeer figures stored inside the slanted nook partially hid the steps leading to the attic and the presence she swore was there. She hadn’t encountered the being in question. Yet. It wasn’t cool for a nineteen-year-old to harbor terrors of a closet, but she did.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She threw her hands up after a particularly loud summons. <em>“</em>What do you want from me?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a rap on the downstairs door. ~</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em>Secret Lady</em> will be out in kindle and print at Amazon and in eBook from all major online booksellers. The novel is available in pre-order now</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> at Amazon: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Lady-Ladies-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B07KNL7K3Z/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Lady-Ladies-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B07KNL7K3Z/</a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Follow this blog and my Amazon Author Page. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6">https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Follow me on BookBub: <a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/beth-trissel">https://www.bookbub.com/authors/beth-trissel</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">***If you are interested in reviewing please contact me: bctrissel@yahoo. com</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/barn-in-misty-autumn-woods.jpg"><br /><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-32839" height="375" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/barn-in-misty-autumn-woods.jpg?w=500" width="500" /></a>(</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Old barn behind our farm. Torn down now, sadly.)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-39773090445210989392018-10-27T12:57:00.001-07:002018-10-27T12:57:08.543-07:00My Kitten Muse <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am greatly entertained by my new little furbaby buddy, Sparky McGee. Big kitties like him and Puppy Cooper plays and plays with the baby. Our rescue dog, Jilly, is on board. When I sit on the couch with my laptop to write I often have a purring kitten curled beside me, a second cat humming in my ear, a third tucked in as closely as possible, and a fourth perched overhead. The dogs each have their spots. Oh how happy we all are cozied up together. The only challenge with writing is staying awake because these sleepy rumbling kitties make me drowsy. I often end up tucked beside them for a nap. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lZAyxAcnwsc/W9S-L3MsphI/AAAAAAAAN8Y/pWQ0Bf4Sl6kyaM4TZR3Rrz-pcnoD8GU1ACLcBGAs/s1600/Sparky%2BMcGee%2Bin%2Bhis%2Bperch.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lZAyxAcnwsc/W9S-L3MsphI/AAAAAAAAN8Y/pWQ0Bf4Sl6kyaM4TZR3Rrz-pcnoD8GU1ACLcBGAs/s320/Sparky%2BMcGee%2Bin%2Bhis%2Bperch.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Sparky McGee surveying his kingdom from his perch)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. ~George Mikes</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal. ~Agnes Repplier</span></span><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vn2P896WgPM/W9S2vlvaIXI/AAAAAAAAN8Q/EZAzjbCFihcDi0pE9IncEpf-1uRfHqr6ACEwYBhgL/s1600/Sparky%2BMcGee%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vn2P896WgPM/W9S2vlvaIXI/AAAAAAAAN8Q/EZAzjbCFihcDi0pE9IncEpf-1uRfHqr6ACEwYBhgL/s320/Sparky%2BMcGee%2B3.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(What I see when looking down beside me as I write)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A catless writer is almost inconceivable; even Ernest Hemingway, manly follower of the hunting trophy and the bullfight, lived waist-deep in cats. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. ~Barbara Holland, </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Name of the Cat</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, 1988</span></span></span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first. ~Arthur Weigall</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LpOBk5cYV2Y/W9S-qWKRBEI/AAAAAAAAN8g/Tiw7ODf-NoYqOPs6SBwmbooNIdgv9UPGACLcBGAs/s1600/Sparky%2BMcGee%2Bwith%2Bautumn%2Barrangement.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LpOBk5cYV2Y/W9S-qWKRBEI/AAAAAAAAN8g/Tiw7ODf-NoYqOPs6SBwmbooNIdgv9UPGACLcBGAs/s320/Sparky%2BMcGee%2Bwith%2Bautumn%2Barrangement.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Sparky McGee admiring my autumn arrangement)</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For more on me visit my Amazon Author Page:</span></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6/">https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6/</a></span></b></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></b></span></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-48704187255476137602018-10-24T12:59:00.000-07:002018-10-24T12:59:52.828-07:00New Release! An Enchanted Holiday Digital Boxed Set! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-34v02kgsv8I/W9DJxZ3fOuI/AAAAAAAAN7o/WLlykDtelwsFQ_NIML5wauHZR-I0MULIQCLcBGAs/s1600/AnEnchantedHoliday_w13371_750.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="565" height="640" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-34v02kgsv8I/W9DJxZ3fOuI/AAAAAAAAN7o/WLlykDtelwsFQ_NIML5wauHZR-I0MULIQCLcBGAs/s640/AnEnchantedHoliday_w13371_750.jpg" width="481" /></a></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">I'm excited to have my time travel fantasy romance, <i>The White Lady</i>, in the new holiday boxed set release from The Wild Rose Press. Available in preorder now--out November 8th.</span></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #b01600;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></b></span>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Blurbs for An Enchanted Holiday</b>:</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Mr. Jack Frost by Amy Hahn</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Once upon a wintry evening she made a wish on Christmas snow…</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Reagan Thorton never expected her wish to come true, even when Jack Frost appears on her doorstep. She doesn't believe such nonsense or in happy endings. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Jack has until Christmas Eve to make her rediscover happiness in life and joy in the holiday season. But Reagan is falling in love and Jack knows that once Christmas Eve arrives he'll vanish forever in a swirl of snow. Or will he? After all, he has become the reason for her happiness.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>The White Lady by Beth Trisse</b>l</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">It's just two weeks before Christmas, and Avery Dunham cannot change Ignus Burke's mind. They must travel back in time to rescue the White Lady in the portrait above his fireplace. The magic-wielding wizard is obsessed with her. Avery was right: this adventure is not going to be like any other.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A Witch's Holiday Wedding by Tena Stetler</span></b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Elemental witch Pepper McKay happily agrees to marry former SEAL Lathen Quartz. Planning a wedding and operating their wildlife rescue on enchanted McKay land takes a toll. Will the nosy McKay ghosts, Lathen's werewolf pack, Pepper's parents, and her best friend help or hinder the wedding and holiday plans?</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A Magical Highland Solstice by Mary Morgan </span></b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Laird Cormac Murray has vowed to never take a wife. When a lost path in Scotland leads Eve Brannigan to a handsome but gruff Highlander, she fights the temptation to allow love to enter her heart for the first time. Can the Fae and the magic of the Yule season bring together two souls who have forsaken love?</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Christmas Star by Roni Adams</span></b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A holiday fling with Nick Christopoulus on a Greece Isle is just the vacation Chrissy Star needs from her world of elves. When she disappears after a night of magical sex, Nick is determined to track her down. But how can Nick, a non-believer, find a magical place called Christmas Town? </span></span></span><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Available in kindle at:</b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Holiday-Digital-Boxed-Set-ebook/dp/B07J4BB8JW/"> https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Holiday-Digital-Boxed-Set-ebook/dp/B07J4BB8JW/</a></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-76394723422993810012018-09-27T07:55:00.000-07:002018-09-27T07:55:32.592-07:00Kitten in the House -- Author at Work<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See the laptop. See the kitten. See the challenge. I'm writing. Sort of. Sparky McGee wants to play. Kitty Peaches and Cream are napping with a do not disturb label. Even Puppy Cooper is snoozing. Our older dog, Jilly, idly lifts her head and Kitty Pavel hides. So I'm it. That's me in the pink shirt with the laptop and this is who I see when I glance down. I took a lot of pics to get one where he wasn't a busy blur. :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fGiY0gS_Veo/W6zsRsQI1zI/AAAAAAAAN3Y/WAw07CM2bycfQdh9WY1SDnGrM8OK-dfdACLcBGAs/s1600/Sparky%2BMcGee%2Band%2Bthe%2Blaptop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fGiY0gS_Veo/W6zsRsQI1zI/AAAAAAAAN3Y/WAw07CM2bycfQdh9WY1SDnGrM8OK-dfdACLcBGAs/s320/Sparky%2BMcGee%2Band%2Bthe%2Blaptop.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't really blame all my writing challenges on Sparky McGee, though. The H&H in my current work --an older YA paranormal time travel romance-- have had their hand on the doorknob for weeks. I've left them standing on the porch of the mystery house while I try to plot out who will answer their knock. Everything hinges on who and what lies on the other side of that door. I have researched various time periods--exhaustively--because I'm not even sure what era we are in yet. And I've schemed different ways this story can go, but I can't make up my mind. It seems to boil down to that inner leading. Sometimes, I just have to open the door and walk through. Only then, will I discover what awaits my characters. Only then, will I know how the story goes. And this is the whole problem with me and plotting. I can only scheme so much. The rest I have to learn. I think I know how this story will go but invariably the characters chart a different course. Fear not, I am prepared. Research helps me jump here or there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What of you? Plotters or pansters? Or a combination of both, like me?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back to Sparky McGee, he has moved on to cruising the bookshelves, furniture, etc, and attacking anything that moves which includes my toes. A thing doesn't even have to wiggle for him to pounce. He's on the prowl.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3XfLSx95wO4/W6zsqjt5V2I/AAAAAAAAN3g/VX3msPZ4uVI1v5y6DbQGl_gcdaOui191gCLcBGAs/s1600/Sparky%2Bin%2Bhis%2Bbox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3XfLSx95wO4/W6zsqjt5V2I/AAAAAAAAN3g/VX3msPZ4uVI1v5y6DbQGl_gcdaOui191gCLcBGAs/s320/Sparky%2Bin%2Bhis%2Bbox.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat." ~Author unknown</span></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></span>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. "~Jules Champfleury</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion." ~F.A. Paradis de Moncrif</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_vjvC0EsShk/W6zszaws2RI/AAAAAAAAN3k/zTjbgrUwyj4IE_s23bjcmae8AeYFa9DfgCLcBGAs/s1600/Sparky%2Bin%2Ba%2Bsunbeam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_vjvC0EsShk/W6zszaws2RI/AAAAAAAAN3k/zTjbgrUwyj4IE_s23bjcmae8AeYFa9DfgCLcBGAs/s320/Sparky%2Bin%2Ba%2Bsunbeam.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur?"~Irish Saying</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sparky McGee below when he's my contented writing buddy in sleepy mode.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LGV1jcxQ1uI/W6ztHsIHD_I/AAAAAAAAN3s/b_YO7lhBT20XZVvFSOEXTXBQkXOzO9bsgCLcBGAs/s1600/My%2Bwriting%2Bbuddy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LGV1jcxQ1uI/W6ztHsIHD_I/AAAAAAAAN3s/b_YO7lhBT20XZVvFSOEXTXBQkXOzO9bsgCLcBGAs/s320/My%2Bwriting%2Bbuddy.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kittens happen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">For more on my work, visit my Amazon author page at: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6/">https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6/</a></span></span><br />
<u></u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-66868702706604957622018-09-15T07:08:00.001-07:002018-09-15T07:08:50.793-07:00New Audiobook--Historical Romance Novel Red Bird's Song!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am delighted to have the first story I ever wrote in audio! Narrator Paul-Alexandre Petit did a fabulous and painstaking job.</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3S5FVu2-ygY/W50QzFrr4YI/AAAAAAAANoE/1QHGCC0oEKgUWwbVUm6gX1N75qCGxYzawCLcBGAs/s1600/redbirdssong_w4782_2400%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3S5FVu2-ygY/W50QzFrr4YI/AAAAAAAANoE/1QHGCC0oEKgUWwbVUm6gX1N75qCGxYzawCLcBGAs/s400/redbirdssong_w4782_2400%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More about the story.</span></strong></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the Beginning: Years ago, while researching family genealogy, I gained the courage to take the leap from penning non-fiction essays about rural life (I live on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia) and plunge into historical romance novels set in early America. That first story, <em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic;">Red Bird’s Song</em>, (written and rewritten multiple times) is the book of my heart.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I loved the descriptions...I felt I was there...Many mystical episodes are intermingled with the events...The ending is a real surprise, but I will let you have the pleasure of reading it for yourself." --Seriously Reviewed</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This book touched my soul even as it provided a thrilling fictional escape into a period of history I have always found fascinating.”<br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" />~ Laurie-J Reviewer for Red Bird’s Song at Night Owl Romance<br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" />Red Bird’s Song is a 2012 Double Epic Award Finalist.</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DUzhrzP9uO8/THfX-hn-PiI/AAAAAAAACUs/1Xuv3hOuzDU7a2bZOJivRAAdsMfCxsCVgCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/aboveHoneQuarry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DUzhrzP9uO8/THfX-hn-PiI/AAAAAAAACUs/1Xuv3hOuzDU7a2bZOJivRAAdsMfCxsCVgCPcBGAYYCw/s400/aboveHoneQuarry.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Image of the Alleghenies taken by my mom, Pat Churchman)</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My fascination with Colonial America, particularly stirring tales of the frontier and the Shawnee Indians, is an early and abiding one. My English, Scot-Irish (we called ourselves the Scotch-Irish, but are often corrected, so whatever) ancestors had interactions with this tribe, including family members taken captive. In Red Bird’s Song, I honed in on my early American roots in a story featuring the Scots-Irish and an Indian attack that happened to my ancestors.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My award-winning Native American themed historical romance novel <em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic;">Through the Fire</em> is also based on research into my colonial forebears and the French and Indian War.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though written to stand alone, historical romance novel <em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic;">Kira Daughter of the Moon</em> is the sequel to Through the Fire. These three novels, plus <em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic;">The Bearwalker's Daughter</em> comprise my Native American Warrior Series.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/musket_powder-horn2.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-23103" height="484" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/musket_powder-horn2.jpg" style="display: block; float: left; height: 484px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 23.8px; margin-top: 7px; max-width: 1000px;" width="246" /></a>(Image of family musket, hunting pouch, and powder horn by my mom, Pat Churchman)</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Red Bird’s Song (Native American Warrior Series):</span></strong></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px;">Blurb</strong>: Taken captive by a Shawnee war party wasn’t how Charity Edmondson hoped to escape an unwanted marriage. Nor did Shawnee warrior Wicomechee expect to find the treasure promised by his grandfather’s vision in the unpredictable red-headed girl.</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George III’s English Red-Coats, unprincipled colonial militia, prejudice and jealousy are not the only enemies Charity and Wicomechee will face before they can hope for a peaceful life. The greatest obstacle to happiness is in their own hearts. As they struggle through bleak mountains and cold weather, facing wild nature and wilder men, Wicomechee and Charity must learn to trust each other.~</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“With “Red Bird’s Song”, Beth Trissel has painted an unforgettable portrait of a daring and defiant love brought to life in the wild and vivid era of Colonial America. Highly recommended for lovers of American history and romance lovers alike!” ~Review by Virginia Campbell</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px;">RED BIRD'S SONG</strong> was purchased from The Wild Rose Press by Amazon for republication under their Encore line. Look for it in kindle and print and now audio at Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Red-Birds-Song/dp/B07HBBXBT1">https://www.amazon.com/Red-Birds-Song/dp/B07HBBXBT1</a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px;">RED BIRD'S SONG</strong> audiobook at Audible: <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Red-Birds-Song-Audiobook/B07HBC72YS">https://www.audible.com/pd/Red-Birds-Song-Audiobook/B07HBC72YS</a></span></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-23248517551872736052018-08-31T07:28:00.001-07:002018-08-31T07:39:04.487-07:00Kittens Happen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UQftb_rYovo/W4lMJ9Kw9_I/AAAAAAAANRY/4gYfKKJJYWQW0jy2wsIYsxLxupSuZw1CACLcBGAs/s1600/Sparky%2BMcGee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UQftb_rYovo/W4lMJ9Kw9_I/AAAAAAAANRY/4gYfKKJJYWQW0jy2wsIYsxLxupSuZw1CACLcBGAs/s320/Sparky%2BMcGee.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><br />
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">Last</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Friday, I was given a tiny kitten to care for--for the weekend--but his stay is now indefinite. Sometimes, you just need a kitten, and you didn't even know it. Hubby would appreciate my finding a home for the baby when he's older. Meanwhile...I'm getting attached, as are the grandkids and Puppy Cooper. Cooper loves this kitten and frequently checks on it. If the baby mews, he rushes to its box to see if it's OK, and when I let the tiny toddler explore, Cooper is on its tail. The grandkids are building the kitten a playhouse run out of Amazon boxes with connecting tunnels. Very creative and he has rewarded them by darting through their maze like a hamster. Just between us, I think hubby is destined to have another cat in his life.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #990000; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I first began Furbaby Friday, it was as a tribute to my dear little dog and best friend, Sadie. Her passing tore me up more than words can express. I still miss her terribly, and tear up thinking about her, but Cooper, Jilly, our farm dog, Luca, and my kitties are a big comfort. Peaches and Cream have been my babies since they were two week old kittens granddaughter Emma found abandoned. Cream was left in a mud puddle, so dirty we couldn't tell he was a white kitten. He and Peaches are buddy brothers. Funny bird Kitty Pavel is attached to me in his own way. All my furbabies are rescues, and give back so much to me and the family.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #990000; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VcKDUBNZqrA/W4lM7OHim9I/AAAAAAAANRg/PUlIaIfFeoUD_oxQaKS4aRU-ZuYlVQ2nACLcBGAs/s1600/Sadie%2Band%2BPercy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VcKDUBNZqrA/W4lM7OHim9I/AAAAAAAANRg/PUlIaIfFeoUD_oxQaKS4aRU-ZuYlVQ2nACLcBGAs/s320/Sadie%2Band%2BPercy.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Sadie and Percy)</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #990000; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><br />
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">About a week after Sadie crossed the rainbow bridge, Kitty Percy followed her. A very sad time for us all, especially me. This little kitten that has come into our lives looks a lot like Percy did. Percy and Sadie were pals and snoozed on the couch together. They kept me company through many a writing project and the ups and downs of life. I have missed Percy a lot too, and wonder if this new kitty might be like him. You can't replace a dearly loved furbaby, but newcomers have a way of finding a place in your heart you didn't even know you had. They create their own warm home in the deepest recesses of our sentiments, maybe even our soul. Those people who do not love furbabies will never understand. Those who do, need no explanation. We know what our furbabies mean to us.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes, they are a handful to care for at times, but I cannot imagine my life without them. Nor do I wish to. They are my dear friends and an essential part of my life.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BYcJgtiUg2Q/W4lNYj_AHLI/AAAAAAAANRo/I1EVwWnFq9YMf30YFzzKmOR6rjEFWLhdwCLcBGAs/s1600/Peaches%2Band%2BCream%2Bwhispering.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BYcJgtiUg2Q/W4lNYj_AHLI/AAAAAAAANRo/I1EVwWnFq9YMf30YFzzKmOR6rjEFWLhdwCLcBGAs/s320/Peaches%2Band%2BCream%2Bwhispering.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Peaches and Cream)</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wmbT7YRkVUw/W4lQHMkYRlI/AAAAAAAANR0/4Va6q6G4z_w7vRvNZQGTolud8OEGM592wCLcBGAs/s1600/Cooper%2Band%2BJily.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wmbT7YRkVUw/W4lQHMkYRlI/AAAAAAAANR0/4Va6q6G4z_w7vRvNZQGTolud8OEGM592wCLcBGAs/s400/Cooper%2Band%2BJily.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Cooper and Jilly)</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><br />
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As of yesterday, the kitten has been named Sparky McGee.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"></span><br />
<br /></div>
</div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-78791544626412195522018-08-14T10:50:00.003-07:002018-08-14T10:50:24.087-07:00Time Travel Romance Somewhere My Love–Free Kindle Thru 8/18<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 23.8px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/new-somewhere-my-love-cover21.jpg" style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(0, 96, 255); font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-28201" data-attachment-id="28201" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"Picasa","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1330178357","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="NEW SOMEWHERE MY LOVE COVER2" data-large-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/new-somewhere-my-love-cover21.jpg?w=500?w=280" data-medium-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/new-somewhere-my-love-cover21.jpg?w=500?w=188" data-orig-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/new-somewhere-my-love-cover21.jpg?w=500" data-orig-size="280,448" data-permalink="https://bethtrissel.wordpress.com/2016/08/22/where-the-past-meets-the-present-my-somewhere-in-time-series/new-somewhere-my-love-cover2-6/" height="448" sizes="(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/new-somewhere-my-love-cover21.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 96, 255); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 96, 255); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 96, 255); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 96, 255); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: left; height: 448px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-right: 11px; max-width: 471.35px; width: 280px;" width="280" /></a>Somewhere My Love</em> (Book 1, Somewhere in Time) is the story that began my preoccupation with time travel. It spun into the <em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Somewhere in Time</em> series, and now I’ve added a new series with <em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ladies in Time</em>. Both series are similar and have historical, paranormal, and often ghostly elements. I like a good mystery in my time travels so that’s also an important feature. And above all, romance. These are love stories.</span></span></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 23.8px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blurb</strong>: </span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 23.8px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Two hundred years ago Captain Cole Wentworth, the master of an elegant Virginian home, was murdered in his chamber where his portrait still hangs. Presently the estate is a family owned museum run by Will Wentworth, a man so uncannily identical to his ancestor that spirit-sensitive tour guide Julia Morrow has trouble recognizing Cole and Will as separate. </span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 23.8px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">As Julia begins to remember the events of Cole’s death, she must convince Will that history is repeating, and this time he has the starring role in the tragedy. The blade is about to fall.</span></span></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 23.8px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">***Somewhere My Love is free in kindle through August 18th, so snap yours up now at: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/SOMEWHERE-LOVE-Somewhere-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B00AFJ7DZ6" style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(0, 96, 255); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.amazon.com/SOMEWHERE-LOVE-Somewhere-Time-Book-ebook/dp/B00AFJ7DZ6</a></span></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-30177501108871761432018-07-26T06:16:00.001-07:002018-07-26T06:16:40.985-07:00Free Kindle–The Bearwalker’s Daughter (Native American Warrior #1)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;">Free in kindle from 7/26 -7/29 at: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bearwalkers-Daughter-Native-American-Warrior-ebook/dp/B007V6MA22" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.amazon.com/Bearwalkers-Daughter-Native-American-Warrior-ebook/dp/B007V6MA22</a></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">‘A change was coming as surely as the shifting seasons. Karin McNeal heard the urgent whispers in the wind.’</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1d451-the_bearwalkers_daughter_cover2.jpg" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-30822" data-attachment-id="30822" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="The Bearwalker’s Daughter" data-large-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1d451-the_bearwalkers_daughter_cover2.jpg?w=500?w=250" data-medium-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1d451-the_bearwalkers_daughter_cover2.jpg?w=500?w=188" data-orig-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1d451-the_bearwalkers_daughter_cover2.jpg?w=500" data-orig-size="250,400" data-permalink="https://bethtrissel.wordpress.com/2017/10/14/historical-romance-novel-the-bearwalkers-daughter-99-in-kindle/1d451-the_bearwalkers_daughter_cover2/" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1d451-the_bearwalkers_daughter_cover2.jpg?w=500" srcset="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1d451-the_bearwalkers_daughter_cover2.jpg 250w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1d451-the_bearwalkers_daughter_cover2.jpg?w=94 94w" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Historical romance novel, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Bearwalker’s Daughter</em>, is a blend of carefully researched historical fiction interwoven with an intriguing paranormal thread and set among the clannish Scots in the mist-shrouded Alleghenies. The story is similar to others of mine with a western colonial frontier, Native American theme, and features a powerful warrior or two. My passion for the past and some of the accounts I uncovered while exploring my early American Scots-Irish ancestors and the Shawnee Indians is at the heart of my inspiration.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/karin.jpg" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-12462" data-attachment-id="12462" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="<p>Young woman’s face.</p>
" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"13","credit":"Katja Govorushchenko","camera":"DYNAX 7D","caption":"Young woman's face.","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"2005 Katja Govorushchenko","focal_length":"85","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.008","title":"Face With Pony."}" data-image-title="Face With Pony." data-large-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/karin.jpg?w=500" data-medium-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/karin.jpg?w=199&h=300" data-orig-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/karin.jpg" data-orig-size="565,850" data-permalink="https://bethtrissel.wordpress.com/2018/07/26/free-kindle-the-bearwalkers-daughter-native-american-warrior-1/face-with-pony-15/" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/karin.jpg?w=199&h=300" srcset="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/karin.jpg?w=199&h=300 199w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/karin.jpg?w=398&h=600 398w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/karin.jpg?w=100&h=150 100w" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-right: 11px; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="199" /></span></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">A tragic account is the driving force behind the story, the ill-fated romance of a young captive woman who fell in love with the son of a chief. As the result of a treaty, she was taken from her warrior husband and forced back to her white family where she gave birth to a girl. Then the young woman’s husband did the unthinkable and left the tribe to go live among the whites, but such was their hatred of Indians that before he reached his beloved her brothers killed him. Inconsolable and weak from the birth, she grieved herself to death.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Heart-wrenching, that tale haunts me to this day. And I wondered, was there some way those young lovers could have been spared such anguish, and what happened to their infant daughter when she grew up? I know she was raised by her white family–not what they told her about her mother and warrior father.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Not only did The Bearwalker’s Daughter spring from that sad account, but it also had a profound influence on my historical romance novel Red Bird’s Song. Now that I’ve threaded it through two novels, perhaps I can let go…perhaps….</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/86018-handsomenativeamericanwarrior.jpg" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28687" data-attachment-id="28687" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="handsome native americanwarrior" data-large-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/86018-handsomenativeamericanwarrior.jpg?w=367" data-medium-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/86018-handsomenativeamericanwarrior.jpg?w=300&h=275" data-orig-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/86018-handsomenativeamericanwarrior.jpg" data-orig-size="367,336" data-permalink="https://bethtrissel.wordpress.com/2016/11/05/the-true-story-behind-na-para-historical-romance-novel-the-bearwalkers-daughter/86018-handsomenativeamericanwarrior/" height="275" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/86018-handsomenativeamericanwarrior.jpg?w=300&h=275" srcset="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/86018-handsomenativeamericanwarrior.jpg?w=300&h=275 300w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/86018-handsomenativeamericanwarrior.jpg?w=150&h=137 150w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/86018-handsomenativeamericanwarrior.jpg 367w" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">The history my novels draw from is raw and real, a passionate era where only the strong survive. Superstition ran high among both the Scots and Native Americans, and far more, a vision that transcends what is, to reach what can be. We think we’ve gained much in our modern era, and so we have. But we’ve also lost. In my writing, I try to recapture what should not be forgotten. Remember those who’ve gone before you.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">As to bearwalking, this belief/practice predates modern Native Americans to the more ancient people. In essence, a warrior transforms himself into a bear and goes where he wills in that form, a kind of shapeshifting.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Blurb:</span></strong></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Autumn 1784: Karin McNeal hasn’t grasped who she really is or her fierce birthright. A tragic secret from the past haunts the young Scots-Irish woman who longs to learn more of her mother’s death and the mysterious father no one will name. The elusive voices she hears in the wind hint at the dramatic changes soon to unfold in the mist-shrouded Alleghenies in Autumn, 1784.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Jack McCray, the wounded stranger who staggers through the door on the eve of her twentieth birthday and anniversary of her mother’s death, holds the key to unlock the past. Will Karin let this handsome frontiersman lead her to the truth and into his arms, or seek the shelter of her fiercely possessive kinsmen? Is it only her imagination or does someone, or something, wait beyond the brooding ridges–for her?~</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/handsome-young-frontiersman.jpg" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><img alt="" class="size-large wp-image-14590" data-attachment-id="14590" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="<p>Frontiersman, former Shawnee captive</p>
" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D2Xs","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1249776000","copyright":"","focal_length":"85","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.003125","title":""}" data-image-title="JACK FROM THE BEARWALKER’S DAUGHTER" data-large-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/handsome-young-frontiersman.jpg?w=500&h=331" data-medium-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/handsome-young-frontiersman.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/handsome-young-frontiersman.jpg" data-orig-size="851,564" data-permalink="https://bethtrissel.wordpress.com/2018/07/26/free-kindle-the-bearwalkers-daughter-native-american-warrior-1/handsome-young-frontiersman/" height="331" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/handsome-young-frontiersman.jpg?w=500&h=331" srcset="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/handsome-young-frontiersman.jpg?w=500&h=331 500w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/handsome-young-frontiersman.jpg?w=150&h=99 150w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/handsome-young-frontiersman.jpg?w=300&h=199 300w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/handsome-young-frontiersman.jpg?w=768&h=509 768w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/handsome-young-frontiersman.jpg 851w" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="500" /></span></a></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">*Cover by my daughter Elise Trissel. She also formatted the novel for print.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">***The Bearwalker’s Daughter is a revised version of romance novel Daughter of the Wind Publisher’s Weekly BHB Reader’s Choice Best Books of 2009</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">“Ms. Trissel’s alluring style of writing invites the reader into a world of fantasy and makes it so believable it is spellbinding.” –Long and Short Reviews</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia,"Bitstream Charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;">For more of my work, visit my Amazon Author Page: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6/" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6/</a></span></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-20880792371551412922018-07-24T07:51:00.000-07:002018-07-24T07:51:10.092-07:00Many of My Books Now in Audio!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="entry-content" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For those of you who prefer listening to stories, I have a growing number of audiobooks. Several more stories have been completed and will soon be added to my author page at Audible and at Amazon. Some of these books are novellas and others are novels.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Visit My Page At Audible: </strong><br /><a href="https://www.audible.com/author/Beth-Trissel/B002BLLAJ6" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.audible.com/author/Beth-Trissel/B002BLLAJ6</a></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My Amazon Author Page</strong>: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/default/e/B002BLLAJ6" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.amazon.com/default/e/B002BLLAJ6</a><br />I will give the individual Amazon link as I touch on each book.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The latest addition to books of mine now available in audio is ghostly Time Travel romance, <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Somewhere My Lady (Book One, Ladies In Time)</em>. Narrator Sarah King did a super job.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a class="single-image-gallery" href="http://bethtrissel.com/?attachment_id=23204" rel="attachment wp-att-23204" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23204" height="300" scale="2" src="https://i2.wp.com/bethtrissel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/SomewhereMyLady_w11696_2400-1.jpg?resize=300%2C300" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/bethtrissel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/SomewhereMyLady_w11696_2400-1.jpg?resize=300%2C300&zoom=2 2x" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Story Blurb</strong>:</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is he real or is he a ghost?</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lorna Randolph is hired for the summer at Harrison Hall in Virginia, where Revolutionary War reenactors provide guided tours of the elegant old home. She doesn’t expect to receive a note and a kiss from a handsome young man who then vanishes into mist.<br />Harrison Hall itself has plans for Lorna – and for Hart Harrison, her momentary suitor and its 18th-century heir.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Past and present are bound by pledges of love, and modern science melds with old skills and history as Harrison Hall takes Lorna and Hart through time in a race to solve a mystery and save Hart’s life before the Midsummer Ball.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At Amazon at: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-My-Lady-Ladies-Time/dp/B07FDJYJJ2" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-My-Lady-Ladies-Time/dp/B07FDJYJJ2</a></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a class="single-image-gallery" href="http://bethtrissel.com/?attachment_id=23205" rel="attachment wp-att-23205" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23205" height="300" scale="2" src="https://i2.wp.com/bethtrissel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/double-apricot-hollyhock.jpg1_.jpg?resize=300%2C300" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/bethtrissel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/double-apricot-hollyhock.jpg1_.jpg?resize=300%2C300&zoom=2 2x" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The White Lady, Book Two Ladies in Time Series</em>, is also a recent audio addition. Narrator, Susan Marlowe, did an excellent job and presented an enjoyably told tale.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/the-white-lady.jpg" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32564" data-attachment-id="32564" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="The White LAdy" data-large-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/the-white-lady.jpg?w=342" data-medium-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/the-white-lady.jpg?w=300&h=300" data-orig-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/the-white-lady.jpg" data-orig-size="342,342" data-permalink="https://bethtrissel.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=32564" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/the-white-lady.jpg?w=300&h=300" srcset="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/the-white-lady.jpg?w=300&h=300 300w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/the-white-lady.jpg?w=150&h=150 150w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/the-white-lady.jpg 342w" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Story Blurb</strong>:</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Avery Dunham has always been ready to follow her friend, time-traveling wizard Ignus Burke, on incredible adventures. This time, though, she has serious misgivings. It’s just one week before Christmas, but she cannot get him to change his mind. The usually cool and collected magic-wielding leader is wholly obsessed by the portrait of the White Lady whom he is bent on rescuing.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Almost as soon as they begin their journey, it becomes clear their mission is a trap. Avery was right: this adventure is not going to be like any other.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Get The White Lady at: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Lady-Ladies-Time-Book/dp/B07CGPG29C" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.amazon.com/White-Lady-Ladies-Time-Book/dp/B07CGPG29C</a></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another new addition to my audio fold is historical mystery/adventure romance <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Traitor’s Legacy</em>, sequel to <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Enemy of the King</em>. Both novels are set during the high drama of the American Revolution. Narrator Lisa Valdini is excellent in this audiobook.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a class="single-image-gallery" href="http://bethtrissel.com/?attachment_id=23206" rel="attachment wp-att-23206" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23206" height="300" scale="2" src="https://i1.wp.com/bethtrissel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/TraitorsLegacy_8945_2400.jpg?resize=300%2C300" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/bethtrissel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/TraitorsLegacy_8945_2400.jpg?resize=300%2C300&zoom=2 2x" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Story Blurb</strong>: 1781. On opposite sides of the War of Independence, British Captain Jacob Vaughan and Claire Monroe find themselves thrust together by chance and expediency.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Captain Vaughan comes to a stately North Carolina manor to catch a spy. Instead, he finds himself in bedlam: The head of the household is an old man ravaged by madness, the one sane male of the family is the very man he is hunting, and the household is overseen by his beguiling sister, Claire.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Torn between duty, love, and allegiances, yearning desperately for peace, will Captain Vaughan and Claire Monroe forge a peace of their own against the vagaries of war and the betrayal of false friends?</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Legacy-Beth-Trissel/dp/1628304774" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Legacy-Beth-Trissel/dp/1628304774</a></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A wonderful British narrator, Rebecca McKernan, did a fantastic job with my English historical romance, <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Into the Lion’s Heart</em>.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/into-the-lions-heart.jpg" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32565" data-attachment-id="32565" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Into the Lion’s Heart" data-large-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/into-the-lions-heart.jpg?w=342" data-medium-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/into-the-lions-heart.jpg?w=300&h=300" data-orig-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/into-the-lions-heart.jpg" data-orig-size="342,342" data-permalink="https://bethtrissel.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=32565" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/into-the-lions-heart.jpg?w=300&h=300" srcset="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/into-the-lions-heart.jpg?w=300&h=300 300w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/into-the-lions-heart.jpg?w=150&h=150 150w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/into-the-lions-heart.jpg 342w" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Story Blurb</strong>:</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Will the English captain save a woman the French Revolution would devour when he knows the truth?</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Georgian England, 1789: As the French Revolution rages, the English nobility offer sanctuary to many a refugee. Captain Dalton Evans arrives in Dover to meet a distant cousin, expecting to see a spoiled aristocrat. Instead, he’s conquered by the simplicity of his new charge. And his best friend Thomas Archer isn’t immune to her artless charm, either.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">French émigré Cecile Beaumont didn’t choose to travel across the Channel. And she certainly didn’t expect that impersonating her own mistress would introduce her to a most mesmerizing man. Now she must play out the masquerade, or risk life, freedom – and her heart.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At Amazon at: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Into-Lions-Heart-Love-Letters/dp/B079N77LV" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.amazon.com/Into-Lions-Heart-Love-Letters/dp/B079N77LV</a>Y</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Poignantly sweet, ghostly Christmas Romance, <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Somewhere The Bells Ring</em>, is a wonderful audio book. I can’t rave enough about the performance of narrator, Tom Jordan.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/somewhere-the-bells-ring.jpg" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32566" data-attachment-id="32566" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Somewhere the Bells Ring" data-large-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/somewhere-the-bells-ring.jpg?w=342" data-medium-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/somewhere-the-bells-ring.jpg?w=300&h=300" data-orig-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/somewhere-the-bells-ring.jpg" data-orig-size="342,342" data-permalink="https://bethtrissel.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=32566" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/somewhere-the-bells-ring.jpg?w=300&h=300" srcset="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/somewhere-the-bells-ring.jpg?w=300&h=300 300w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/somewhere-the-bells-ring.jpg?w=150&h=150 150w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/somewhere-the-bells-ring.jpg 342w" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Story Blurb</strong>:</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Caught with pot in her dorm room, Bailey Randolph is exiled to a relative’s ancestral home in Virginia to straighten herself out. Banishment to Maple Hill is dismal, until a ghost appears requesting her help. Bailey is frightened but intrigued. Then her girlhood crush, Eric Burke, arrives and suddenly Maple Hill isn’t so bad.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To Eric, wounded in Vietnam, his military career shattered, this homecoming feels no less like exile. But when he finds Bailey at Maple Hill, her fairy-like beauty gives him reason to hope – until she tells him about the ghost haunting the house. Then he wonders if her one experiment with pot has made her crazy.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As Bailey and Eric draw closer, he agrees to help her find a long-forgotten Christmas gift the ghost wants. But will the magic of Christmas be enough to make Eric believe – in Bailey and the ghost – before the Christmas bells ring?</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Review for <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Somewhere the Bells Ring</em> at Audible: “Well done!<br />This isn’t my usual genre, but I found myself liking the book more than I thought I would. The narration was excellent and really drew me into the story. I recommend the book.”</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-Bells-Ring-Time-Book/dp/B075GWRZ1G/" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-Bells-Ring-Time-Book/dp/B075GWRZ1G/</a></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another well done audiobook is <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Hunter’s Moon</em>, Book One in my Young Adult Fantasy Series <em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Secret Warrior</em>. Narrator Victoria Brodski did a sensational job.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a class="single-image-gallery" href="http://bethtrissel.com/?attachment_id=23211" rel="attachment wp-att-23211" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23211" height="300" scale="2" src="https://i0.wp.com/bethtrissel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/TheHuntersMoon_w10257_2400.jpg?resize=300%2C300" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/bethtrissel.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/TheHuntersMoon_w10257_2400.jpg?resize=300%2C300&zoom=2 2x" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Story Blurb</strong>:</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seventeen-year-old Morgan Daniel has been in the witness protection program most of her life. But The Panteras have caught up with her and her younger brother. Her car is totaled, she’s hurt, and the street gang is closing in when wolves with glowing eyes appear out of nowhere and chase away the killers. Then a very cute guy who handles a bow like Robin Hood emerges from the woods and takes them to safety at his fortress-like home. And that’s just the first sign that Morgan and her brother have entered a hidden world filled with secrets…</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><em style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Hunter’s Moon</em> has a super audio review: 5.0 out of 5 stars</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Great on Audio<br />ByR. Grabowskion May 15, 2018<br />Format: Audible Audiobook<br />This was a fun read… or listen. It was actually one of the first YA books I listened to on audio.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The beginning of the book pulled me right in with a scene with 16-year-old Morgan and her 10-year-old brother, Jimmy. It reminded me a lot of the relationship Meg has with Charles Wallace in a Wrinkle and Time because Jimmy is also very smart. (He was actually one of my favorite characters.) I loved how the author created a beautiful world in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia where some people can change into werewolves. The focus of the book was more on Morgan’s curse and her future. The real action will start in book 2 as this was only a novella. It kept me hooked with interesting characters and a unique take on werewolves.”</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">At Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hunters-Moon-Secret-Warrior/dp/B076TMHF6Z/" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.amazon.com/Hunters-Moon-Secret-Warrior/dp/B076TMHF6Z/</a></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I could seriously use more reviews. If you are an avid listener of audiobooks, please give these a listen and leave me one.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Happy listening! All of these books are published by The Wild Rose Press and the audios are done through the company.</span></div>
<div style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/27c68-rose2bon2bopen2bbook252c2bromantic.jpg" style="border-image: none; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-30605" data-attachment-id="30605" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="27c68-rose2bon2bopen2bbook252c2bromantic" data-large-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/27c68-rose2bon2bopen2bbook252c2bromantic.jpg?w=425" data-medium-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/27c68-rose2bon2bopen2bbook252c2bromantic.jpg?w=300&h=199" data-orig-file="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/27c68-rose2bon2bopen2bbook252c2bromantic.jpg" data-orig-size="425,282" data-permalink="https://bethtrissel.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/from-paranormal-time-travel-romance-novel-somewhere-my-lady-book-1-ladies-in-time/27c68-rose2bon2bopen2bbook252c2bromantic/" height="199" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/27c68-rose2bon2bopen2bbook252c2bromantic.jpg?w=300&h=199" srcset="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/27c68-rose2bon2bopen2bbook252c2bromantic.jpg?w=300&h=199 300w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/27c68-rose2bon2bopen2bbook252c2bromantic.jpg?w=150&h=100 150w, https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/27c68-rose2bon2bopen2bbook252c2bromantic.jpg 425w" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" width="300" /></span></a></div>
</div>
<div class="entry-info" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; clear: both; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-34758769502373055342018-07-21T07:00:00.000-07:002018-07-26T11:27:44.678-07:00Summer Inspiration From Our Farm in the Shenandoah Valley<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/lillies-in-the-garden.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-32526 alignleft" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/lillies-in-the-garden.jpg?w=225" width="300" /></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Summer days on the farm sail by like clouds in the blue. Each morning brings a fresh look to our familiar scenery. The sights that greet us have comforting continuity and yet are ever-changing. No two days in the country are identical.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Breaking dawn and soon after is the best time of day. Nightly slumber renews the garden, beading every leaf and blossom with dew. Cows amble in the sparkling meadow, and the pond swims with waterfowl... It's the garden of Eden time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Lilies with the barn in back.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pastoral beauty and flowery nooks beckon and I get out my camera phone. Suspicious geese flee the crazy lady unless I sneak up on them. Fussy bunch. Summer sounds create a symphony while I dart around picture-taking. Birds sing, roosters crow, cows bawl, geese fuss... The cooing of mourning doves is a continual background note, and we have an insane mockingbird who runs through every tune he knows. Repeatedly. The trill of meadowlarks is heavenly. Finches and robins have the happiest song. Red-winged blackbirds sound their classic wetland call at the pond. Ducks converse amiably, unlike the squawky geese.. There is much life here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love the music of the garden. Bees hum, crickets chirp, fairies sing...</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/phlox-and-more-phlox.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32528" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/phlox-and-more-phlox.jpg?w=225" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Phlox and more phlox)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Zinnias and cosmos from seed I saved and sowed in May, also pictured below)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/happy-zinnias.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32538" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/happy-zinnias.jpg?w=225" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/bee-balm-and-coreopsis.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32533" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/bee-balm-and-coreopsis.jpg?w=225" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Wild Bee balm and coreopsis tinctoria)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hazy, hot, and humid stretches of summer do not inspire me. Pics are dulled when the air hangs like a warm wet blanket. My spirits soar in the 'Reaching to heaven blue sky days' and these are the best for image taking. But I also love the mist. Mist lends itself well to mystery. You can hardly say mystery without it.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3_tSOcNDwMQ/W1oRSAiuhPI/AAAAAAAAMYk/AcaROe9mzv8gsV5Tpdwcu7HcccqTWkE3QCLcBGAs/s1600/Cows%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bmist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3_tSOcNDwMQ/W1oRSAiuhPI/AAAAAAAAMYk/AcaROe9mzv8gsV5Tpdwcu7HcccqTWkE3QCLcBGAs/s400/Cows%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bmist.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Cow in the meadow with the hills beyond it)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Magic returns again in the long summer evenings. We're blessed with a spectacular view of sunsets over the meadow, the pond, and hills with the Allegheny Mountains rolling beyond them. Once again, the geese may enter into these images. It depends on how sneaky I am and how fast they are. The host of lightning bugs blinking in the garden and meadows are impossible to capture on film. Cicadas serenade us from the trees. Earthy farm smells are not for everyone but you have to love the scenery.</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/the-pond-at-dusk.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32536" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/the-pond-at-dusk.jpg?w=225" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Our pond at dusk)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/rosy-sunset-on-the-farm-with-sunflowers.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32537" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/rosy-sunset-on-the-farm-with-sunflowers.jpg?w=225" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Our barn at sunset with sunflowers)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/phlox-at-twilight.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32532" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/phlox-at-twilight.jpg?w=225" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Phlox at dusk)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've captured glimpses of midsummer in 'The Shire' as I term our little patch of earth and hope you enjoy my sharing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/geese-leaving-me.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32540" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/geese-leaving-me.jpg?w=225" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JXwX3I4pO-M/W1oReNRLxZI/AAAAAAAAMYo/HohTgrNyx38s9EZpfXxY9dAq1DRBdgKtgCLcBGAs/s1600/Geese%2Bin%2Bthe%2Byard%2Bwith%2Bflowers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JXwX3I4pO-M/W1oReNRLxZI/AAAAAAAAMYo/HohTgrNyx38s9EZpfXxY9dAq1DRBdgKtgCLcBGAs/s320/Geese%2Bin%2Bthe%2Byard%2Bwith%2Bflowers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(The geese heading toward the meadow-away from me)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/barn-with-geese-admiring-the-sunset.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32549" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/barn-with-geese-admiring-the-sunset.jpg?w=225" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(The geese watching the sunset)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/new-dry-cow-heifer-barn.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32551" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/new-dry-cow-heifer-barn.jpg?w=225" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Cows in pasture beneath the setting sun)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'The summer night is like a perfection of thought.' ~Wallace Stevens</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'In summer, the song sings itself.' ~William Carlos Williams</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose.' ~Author Unknown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/cone-flowers-plus.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32535" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/cone-flowers-plus.jpg?w=225" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Cone flowers)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year — it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.' ~Author Unknown</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Then followed that beautiful season... Summer....<br />Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape<br />Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.'<br />~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32539" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/maple-tree-in-front-of-flower-border.jpg?w=300" width="400" /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'To see the Summer Sky<br />Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –<br />True Poems flee –'<br />~Emily Dickinson, c.1879</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicada lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder.' ~Terri Guillemets</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.' ~W.E. Johns, The Passing Show</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/gailardia.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32542" height="400" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/gailardia.jpg?w=300" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Gaillardia)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">***In addition to the farm and garden, I'm an author. I write historical, time travel, and paranormal romance. Also young adult. Plus nonfiction about gardening and country life. For more on my books, visit my Amazon Author Page: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/default/e/B002BLLAJ6/">https://www.amazon.com/default/e/B002BLLAJ6/</a></span></span></span><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-46199338015647183092018-07-03T08:53:00.000-07:002018-07-03T09:16:42.156-07:00Historical Romance Novel Enemy of the King for the 4th of July!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px;">"Passion Governs and she never governs wisely." ~ Benjamin Franklin</strong></span><br />
<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></strong>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BLqbLS3A-iA/TPRi8Oz461I/AAAAAAAACaY/UN_W7jr0F_wQpM8CMKVdUPbnuI8OvVSEwCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/Enemyoftheking_w2243_300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BLqbLS3A-iA/TPRi8Oz461I/AAAAAAAACaY/UN_W7jr0F_wQpM8CMKVdUPbnuI8OvVSEwCPcBGAYYCw/s400/Enemyoftheking_w2243_300.jpg" width="266" /></span></a></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Years ago, I was researching my early American Scots-Irish forebears when I often came across references to a battle fought during the Revolution called <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-kings-mountain">The Battle of Kings Mountain</a>. The name alone drew me. I vowed to go back later and research that battle more in-depth. When I did, I uncovered fascinating fodder for the imagination.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; cursor: text; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; outline: transparent 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="cursor: text; outline-color: transparent; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I learned about the gallant, ill-fated British Major Patrick Ferguson who lost his life and Loyalist army atop that Carolina Mountain called King’s back in the fall of 1780. Ferguson is buried there beneath a stone cairn, possibly along with his mistress who also fell that day. He had two, both called Virginia. But it is believed one mistress made her escape on a horse by betraying his whereabouts to the advancing--and really angry--Patriots. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hardy, sometimes downright mean, Overmountain men of Scots heritage, didn’t take kindly to Ferguson’s warning that they desist from rebellion or he’d bring fire and sword upon them and hang all these 'enemies of the King!'</span></div>
<div style="cursor: text; outline-color: transparent; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Book title,’ I said to self. And <em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic;">Enemy of the King</em> sounds cooler than <em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic;">The Patriot. </em> So I began what came to be my version of that famous movie, though I started my novel before it even came out. Whew, that WAS a while ago. I’ve invested years of research into the high drama and romance of the Revolution, and gone on to write two more novels in what became <i>The Traitor's Legacy Series</i>, with three novels set during and just after the war. </span></div>
<div style="cursor: text; outline-color: transparent; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T<span style="color: black;">he Battle of King’s Mountain, a mega conflict that altered the course of a nation, plays a prominent role in the fast-paced historical romance that is Enemy of the King. And, being drawn to mysterious old homes and the notion that those who’ve gone before us are not always gone, I included a paranormal element. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I suspect my ancestors are speaking to me as I have a colonial forebear named Jeremiah Jordan and I discovered an early Meriwether in the family. My journey back through time gathers intrigue, and I wondered how the people who lived through anything as all-consuming as the American Revolution ever got their lives back to normal. The ripples from that enormous upheaval are still flowing out in concentric circles. They’ve certainly encompassed me.</span></div>
<div style="cursor: text; outline-color: transparent; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/formal-rose-garden.jpg" style="color: #0060ff;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9736" height="221" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/formal-rose-garden.jpg?w=300" style="display: block; float: left; height: 222px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 23.8px; margin-top: 7px; max-width: 1000px;" title="formal rose garden" width="300" /></a>Step into the elegant parlor of Pleasant Grove, an eighteenth century Georgian plantation built high on the bluff above the Santee River. Admire the stately lines of this gracious brick home and its exquisite décor. Stroll out into the expansive garden between fragrant borders of lavender and rosemary. Bask beneath the moss-hung branches of an enormous live oak, then saunter back indoors to dress for a candlelight dinner in the sumptuous dining room. But don’t plan on a lengthy stay, you’re about to be snatched away for a wild ride into Carolina backcountry.</span></span></div>
<div style="cursor: text; outline-color: transparent; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jeremiah Jordan is a Patriot and Meriwether Steele a Tory. She risks a traitor’s death if she fights for the one she loves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Blurb</b>: <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1780, South Carolina: While Loyalist Meriwether Steele recovers from fever in the stately home of her beloved guardian, Jeremiah Jordan, she senses the haunting presence of his late wife. When she learns that Jeremiah is a Patriot spy and shoots Captain Vaughan, the British officer sent to arrest him, she is caught up on a wild ride into Carolina back country, pursued both by the impassioned captain and the vindictive ghost. Will she remain loyal to her king and Tory twin brother or risk a traitor's death fighting for Jeremiah? If Captain Vaughan snatches her away, he won't give her a choice.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="cursor: text; outline-color: transparent; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/hnaging-moss.jpg" style="color: #0060ff;"><b><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9737" height="199" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/hnaging-moss.jpg?w=300" style="display: block; float: left; height: 199px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 23.8px; margin-top: 7px; max-width: 1000px;" title="Spanish Moss" width="300" /></b></a>‘South Carolina, spies and intrigue, a vindictive ghost, the battle of King’s Mountain, Patriots and Tories, pounding adventure, pulsing romance…</span></span></div>
<div style="cursor: text; outline-color: transparent; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ENEMY OF THE KING.’</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="cursor: text; outline-color: transparent; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The year is 1780, one of the bloodiest of the American Revolution. The entire Southern garrison has been captured and Lord Cornwallis is marching his forces deep into South Carolina. ‘Bloody Ban’ Lieutenant Major Banestre Tarleton and his infamous Legion are sweeping through the countryside. Revenge is the order of the day on both sides and rugged bands of militia are all that stand between crown forces and utter defeat.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="cursor: text; outline: transparent 0px; text-align: left;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GnDmfElOPAg/UAbVnML0aPI/AAAAAAAADBQ/REHps91sA2wkvibetCbARgF4qPFHNFyJgCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/Galloping%2Bwhite%2Bhorses--Enemy%2Bof%2Bthe%2BKing%2B4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="336" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GnDmfElOPAg/UAbVnML0aPI/AAAAAAAADBQ/REHps91sA2wkvibetCbARgF4qPFHNFyJgCPcBGAYYCw/s320/Galloping%2Bwhite%2Bhorses--Enemy%2Bof%2Bthe%2BKing%2B4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: auto; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: auto; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"I thoroughly enjoyed Enemy of the King...the characters are memorable, the setting beautifully described...the action riveting & the romance tender...for anyone who loves a well crafted historical romance." </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> --Long and Short Reviews by Poinsettia</span></span></span></div>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: auto; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: 1201.67px; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: 32.4px; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: 1201.67px; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; height: auto; margin: 0px; width: auto; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; height: auto; margin: 0px; width: auto; word-wrap: break-word;"><b style="background-color: transparent; height: auto; margin: 0px; width: auto; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Publisher's Weekly BHB Reader's Choice Best Books of 2009 </span></b></span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: 32.4px; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: 1201.67px; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; height: auto; margin: 0px; width: auto; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; height: auto; margin: 0px; width: auto; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: transparent; height: auto; margin: 0px; width: auto; word-wrap: break-word;"><b style="background-color: transparent; height: auto; margin: 0px; width: auto; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2010 Best Romance Novel List at Buzzle</span></b></span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; cursor: text; outline: transparent 0px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: auto; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"An amazing and vibrant look into the American Revolution...this sexy historical is a must read!" </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">--Coffee Time Romance and More by Danielle</span></span></span></div>
<div style="cursor: text; outline-color: transparent; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">
<span style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span><em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic;"></em></div>
<div style="cursor: text; outline-color: transparent; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Get <i>Enemy of the King</i> in Kindle or print at Amazon: </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Enemy-King-Beth-Trissel-ebook/dp/B002C73OZW">https://www.amazon.com/Enemy-King-Beth-Trissel-ebook/dp/B002C73OZW</a></span></div>
<div style="cursor: text; outline-color: transparent; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Enemy of the King</i> will soon be an audiobook. <i>Traitor's Legacy,</i> the sequel to <i>Enemy of the King</i>, is an audiobook now. The narrator did an excellent job!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">To listen to the <i>Traitor's Legacy </i>audio visit Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Legacy/dp/B07BH7WC4P/">https://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Legacy/dp/B07BH7WC4P/</a></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At Audible:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Romance/Traitors-Legacy-Audiobook/B07BH7B5D6">https://www.audible.com/pd/Romance/Traitors-Legacy-Audiobook/B07BH7B5D6</a></span><br />
<u></u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Jz5NaHu9DJc/WzuOnAJ0kcI/AAAAAAAAHgs/HvnWqJTVrIg0FbNRbjWmZ1uRDd7iwEarACEwYBhgL/s1600/TraitorsLegacy_8945_2400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Jz5NaHu9DJc/WzuOnAJ0kcI/AAAAAAAAHgs/HvnWqJTVrIg0FbNRbjWmZ1uRDd7iwEarACEwYBhgL/s320/TraitorsLegacy_8945_2400.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<b></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Traitor's Legacy is also in kindle and print at Amazon</b>: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Legacy-Beth-Trissel-ebook/dp/B00MNTXQUW/">https://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Legacy-Beth-Trissel-ebook/dp/B00MNTXQUW/</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The three novels in <i>The Traitor's Legacy Series </i>are sold individually or as a box set from all major online booksellers. In Kindle: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Legacy-Beth-Trissel-ebook/dp/B01L5PSE1K/">https://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Legacy-Beth-Trissel-ebook/dp/B01L5PSE1K/</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RjZysfObJqQ/Wzua-ZKpbZI/AAAAAAAAHg0/V0J8TnP-8cgsWDYjK-tbSeB51N9_RCLBACLcBGAs/s1600/the-traitors-legacy-series-box-set1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RjZysfObJqQ/Wzua-ZKpbZI/AAAAAAAAHg0/V0J8TnP-8cgsWDYjK-tbSeB51N9_RCLBACLcBGAs/s320/the-traitors-legacy-series-box-set1.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span></div>
</div>
</div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-44892756764956398932018-06-16T06:54:00.000-07:002018-06-16T06:54:20.937-07:00My June Garden in the Shenandoah Valley<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">June is the Garden of Eden time here, while the plants are still fresh and new and the Japanese beetles haven't yet arrived. Dewy mornings filled with glowing flowers and bird song are a little piece of heaven. Our rich green valley reminds me of the Shire with the hobbits, especially in June. Loveliness surrounds us. Then as summer advances and the heat, usually drought, and bad bugs settle in gardening is less idyllic. Although, some summers are much kinder than others. This one will be glorious.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ldfx5F1ecU8/WyUPR4uc8BI/AAAAAAAAHdg/-dLUhmhqfWM9f7tlB3S7brQWMbXo9JjOQCLcBGAs/s1600/Wildflowers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ldfx5F1ecU8/WyUPR4uc8BI/AAAAAAAAHdg/-dLUhmhqfWM9f7tlB3S7brQWMbXo9JjOQCLcBGAs/s400/Wildflowers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Shirley poppies and larkspur)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">ollinators are all over the garden. After unusually heavy rain for days the sun has finally reappeared. Bees and butterflies love forget-me-nots. These are the Chinese variety below.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4erxd2CqkzQ/WyUSIPOhnFI/AAAAAAAAHds/M8_CkcVHzl4H7SxCsGCNhoqSZ3mqIIHrACLcBGAs/s1600/Bees%2Bon%2BChinese%2BForget-Me-Nots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4erxd2CqkzQ/WyUSIPOhnFI/AAAAAAAAHds/M8_CkcVHzl4H7SxCsGCNhoqSZ3mqIIHrACLcBGAs/s320/Bees%2Bon%2BChinese%2BForget-Me-Nots.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature." ~Jeff Cox<br /></span></span><br />
<div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not." ~W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman, <i>Garden Rubbish</i>, 1936</span><!--LCJ--><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jEe_yEEhmsQ/WyUSkR2A_FI/AAAAAAAAHd0/XrT4_IUx160XiSX3JxWDf9Xt3QclYYihgCLcBGAs/s1600/first%2BConeflower%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bseason.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jEe_yEEhmsQ/WyUSkR2A_FI/AAAAAAAAHd0/XrT4_IUx160XiSX3JxWDf9Xt3QclYYihgCLcBGAs/s320/first%2BConeflower%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bseason.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
<div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first coneflower in bloom. Echinacea.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<br />
<div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt." ~Author Unknown</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></span></div>
</span></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden." ~John Erskine</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m2mqmm6RNXw/WyUSwnu4_8I/AAAAAAAAHd4/ayIJ6dcLK-QQiIUNsQOSmaJvQjCrPx_MgCLcBGAs/s1600/breadseed%2BPoppy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m2mqmm6RNXw/WyUSwnu4_8I/AAAAAAAAHd4/ayIJ6dcLK-QQiIUNsQOSmaJvQjCrPx_MgCLcBGAs/s320/breadseed%2BPoppy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The breadseed poppy is beginning to bloom. Papaver somniferum.</span></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
"<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past." ~Alexander Smith, "Books and Gardens," <i>Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country</i>, 1863<!--Qe2, tpvldg, 1864v, QqMdAQAAIAAJ, NJ8vAAAAIAAJ--><br /><br />"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." ~Cicero</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4yyhe2asTu4/WyUS98R7PoI/AAAAAAAAHeA/d3l2GwRRFm4c50sJ2MmLe2CX-7w_ma4XQCLcBGAs/s1600/Bees%2Bon%2Brosey%2Bpink%2Bbarley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4yyhe2asTu4/WyUS98R7PoI/AAAAAAAAHeA/d3l2GwRRFm4c50sJ2MmLe2CX-7w_ma4XQCLcBGAs/s320/Bees%2Bon%2Brosey%2Bpink%2Bbarley.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-un-fyap3Rb8/WyUTG_2A4LI/AAAAAAAAHeI/Q45buT1p4_UkQO9vj8oJhSzW2s8vW6lPQCLcBGAs/s1600/Coriander%2Bgoing%2Bto%2Bseed%2Bbeside%2Brosy%2Bpink%2Bbarley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-un-fyap3Rb8/WyUTG_2A4LI/AAAAAAAAHeI/Q45buT1p4_UkQO9vj8oJhSzW2s8vW6lPQCLcBGAs/s320/Coriander%2Bgoing%2Bto%2Bseed%2Bbeside%2Brosy%2Bpink%2Bbarley.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beautiful rose red buckwheat blooming in the garden above, covered with pollinators. White coriander is flowering beside the barley.</span></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps;</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps."</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
~A. Bronson Alcott, "The Garden," </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Tablets</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, 1868</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TPmp2QOAtjw/WyUT9pfEDqI/AAAAAAAAHeY/v-Jt5hU3HwQZgt9m9kGsrU8N4-1k_P9KACLcBGAs/s1600/Emma%252C%2BIan%252C%2Band%2BOwen%2Bin%2Btheir%2Bcardboard%2Bbattle%2Bgear.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TPmp2QOAtjw/WyUT9pfEDqI/AAAAAAAAHeY/v-Jt5hU3HwQZgt9m9kGsrU8N4-1k_P9KACLcBGAs/s320/Emma%252C%2BIan%252C%2Band%2BOwen%2Bin%2Btheir%2Bcardboard%2Bbattle%2Bgear.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Children also inhabit my garden. These are three of my creative grandkids and this is some of what becomes of my Amazon boxes. Cardboard weapons and protective gear for wars against Orks and other great dangers. They even made a crossbow.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imagination blooms in the garden.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think on the latest book I'm writing while I'm weeding, and develop the plots. Sometimes, I just 'am' while I muse with the earth. The garden is a good place to 'be'. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more on me, visit my Amazon Author Page: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6">https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-30201587389990509062018-05-28T04:23:00.001-07:002018-05-28T04:24:23.699-07:00The Restoration of Our Farm Pond<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. ~Jane Austen</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our pond, originally d<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">ug in the early 1950’s, has given people
and wildlife much happiness through the years. But over time it had filled with silt and
could no longer support fish. The herons were lucky to nab a minnow. As the soil level raised, weeds appeared. Eventually, they would have taken over. Since my grandson, Ian, badly wanted to fish, and all of
us wanted to see the pond saved and not disappear entirely, we had no choice
other than to start over. This meant eradicating what we had, a tough move that elicited groans from me.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q-gIQjcY_rk/WwtZ6ydRs5I/AAAAAAAAHbM/5yUtwU8EZP8cEJ94gzehFlglijP0Ygd2ACLcBGAs/s1600/Our%2BPond%2Bon%2BMay%2B27%2B2018.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q-gIQjcY_rk/WwtZ6ydRs5I/AAAAAAAAHbM/5yUtwU8EZP8cEJ94gzehFlglijP0Ygd2ACLcBGAs/s400/Our%2BPond%2Bon%2BMay%2B27%2B2018.png" width="300" /></span></a></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">October before last we undertook the draining of our much-loved waterhole.
Storms and muskrats had already punched holes in the dam that should have been
made of clay but was of softer loam; it didn’t require enormous effort for son
Cory to make a much bigger gap in it. We sadly watched the water diminish. Disgruntled
geese waded in the dwindling puddle until that, too, was gone. Months followed
with no sight or sound of pond life, no photographs of sunsets reflected on its
surface…no ice skating for two winters…</span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Drought settled in. During the long dry spell, our one comfort
was the thought that the sooner the muddy bottom dried up, the sooner we would
be able to bring in the big equipment and get to work. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eventually, that day finally came and stretched into weeks, then months. Late this past fall and winter, the pond was dug and reshaped, and the new dam packed with clay. Rows
of soil from the bottom lined our meadow like trenches in World War One. Cory and 'team pond restore' laid the
overflow pipe, built a deck, and did all the work in readiness for a break
in the weather. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We waited and waited. Our pond was like a dry crater on the moon, and just as uninhabitable. I despaired of it ever being full. We got some much-needed moisture in March and April, about the time forest fires were breaking out, but the bulk of the
rains have only recently come. Some rain fell in torrents, with the biggest storm hitting yesterday. At long last, our pond is brimming. </span></span><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Great is our excitement</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-abw0vm5J3kw/Wwtiw2RyukI/AAAAAAAAHcY/BbsXoGjKRfwUmp4rQsWXac1BjOPvz40SQCLcBGAs/s1600/Owen%2Bkayaking%2B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-abw0vm5J3kw/Wwtiw2RyukI/AAAAAAAAHcY/BbsXoGjKRfwUmp4rQsWXac1BjOPvz40SQCLcBGAs/s400/Owen%2Bkayaking%2B.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></span></span></div>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">
</span></span>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Grandson kayaking)</span></span></span></div>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">
</span></span><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u3Dq1nnlk7A/WwtaLVWJZmI/AAAAAAAAHbU/8jYwiX1V1D8wTC73tY5hv6Ap5VDUwXaqwCLcBGAs/s1600/Our%2BPond%2Bin%2BMay%2B2018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u3Dq1nnlk7A/WwtaLVWJZmI/AAAAAAAAHbU/8jYwiX1V1D8wTC73tY5hv6Ap5VDUwXaqwCLcBGAs/s400/Our%2BPond%2Bin%2BMay%2B2018.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></span>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Daughter Elise, the grandkids, and I have planted a lot of trees
and bushes on the banks. Our goal is to bring back the wildlife. Birdsong
resounds from the meadow and surrounding trees during tranquil walks around the
pond. It’s incredibly peaceful there. We are planning further plantings,
but for now, we’re savoring the fruits of our labor. It's a magical realm.</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." ~John Muir </span><nobr style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 0px;">(1838–1914)</nobr></span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><nobr style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></nobr></span></span>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><nobr style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 0px;"></nobr></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><nobr style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0FpNDnToG9o/Wwtem8-gUfI/AAAAAAAAHcM/SXFEMpQnvQY5RoNYvqTrEaYkMZRNrE4jwCLcBGAs/s1600/2018-05-27%2B%25283%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1043" height="298" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0FpNDnToG9o/Wwtem8-gUfI/AAAAAAAAHcM/SXFEMpQnvQY5RoNYvqTrEaYkMZRNrE4jwCLcBGAs/s400/2018-05-27%2B%25283%2529.png" width="400" /></span></a></nobr></span></span></div>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><nobr style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 0px;">
</nobr></span></span>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><nobr style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></nobr></span></span></div>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><nobr style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 0px;">
</nobr></span></span><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><nobr style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></nobr></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rX_zGXb8xKo/WwtajHg3p1I/AAAAAAAAHbc/cgOjgr9z_J0m9bCb3aLC8JUg60wc0IWdgCLcBGAs/s1600/Water%2Bin%2BPond.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rX_zGXb8xKo/WwtajHg3p1I/AAAAAAAAHbc/cgOjgr9z_J0m9bCb3aLC8JUg60wc0IWdgCLcBGAs/s400/Water%2Bin%2BPond.png" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><nobr style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></nobr></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #330000; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><br />
</span><br />
<div>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></div>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">
<br />
</span><br />
<div>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #330000; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright." ~Henry David Thoreau</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></div>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">
<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. "~e.e. cummings</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QZ53F8XXK-c/Wwtd_UrwujI/AAAAAAAAHcE/8HB7yK4UBOcbWzqOmyoA24P1fZ0_EOBMQCLcBGAs/s1600/Pond%2B27%2B2018%2Bthe%2Btrees.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1027" data-original-width="770" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QZ53F8XXK-c/Wwtd_UrwujI/AAAAAAAAHcE/8HB7yK4UBOcbWzqOmyoA24P1fZ0_EOBMQCLcBGAs/s400/Pond%2B27%2B2018%2Bthe%2Btrees.png" width="298" /></span></a></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />"The poetry of the earth is never dead." ~John Keats</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood." ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QYjPf7qdF-0/Wwta-e0oXkI/AAAAAAAAHbo/a-XmjQD2kgwn4Y3SDdAnedbAB5oV3Zm0gCLcBGAs/s1600/Goose%2Bbehind%2Ba%2Bnewly%2Bplanted%2Btree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QYjPf7qdF-0/Wwta-e0oXkI/AAAAAAAAHbo/a-XmjQD2kgwn4Y3SDdAnedbAB5oV3Zm0gCLcBGAs/s400/Goose%2Bbehind%2Ba%2Bnewly%2Bplanted%2Btree.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Goose flapping his wings behind newly planted tree)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BqDKfI8Vr2g/WwtkZHoq7KI/AAAAAAAAHck/GnqI4y4D9LwAqYnR1oAP53Zt2nP0bI1mQCLcBGAs/s1600/Owen%2Bkayaking%2B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BqDKfI8Vr2g/WwtkZHoq7KI/AAAAAAAAHck/GnqI4y4D9LwAqYnR1oAP53Zt2nP0bI1mQCLcBGAs/s400/Owen%2Bkayaking%2B.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (Grandson Owen kayaking)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gLQXstCPvOo/WwtkjcML2dI/AAAAAAAAHco/94gGeKvSHXEy5j5VpYWgrAeBi48dItsSQCLcBGAs/s1600/Red%2BWing%2BBlackbird.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gLQXstCPvOo/WwtkjcML2dI/AAAAAAAAHco/94gGeKvSHXEy5j5VpYWgrAeBi48dItsSQCLcBGAs/s400/Red%2BWing%2BBlackbird.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Red Wing Blackbird)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<!--cul--><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0wFJNuSrplw/Wwtb4XTA6xI/AAAAAAAAHb4/K1HEwMAkUCsuuAIjx994U1ut1813IPM8gCLcBGAs/s1600/Pond%2Bwith%2Bthe%2Bdock.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0wFJNuSrplw/Wwtb4XTA6xI/AAAAAAAAHb4/K1HEwMAkUCsuuAIjx994U1ut1813IPM8gCLcBGAs/s400/Pond%2Bwith%2Bthe%2Bdock.png" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Cory is building benches for the dock)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For more on me, follow my Amazon Author Page at: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6/">https://www.amazon.com/Beth-Trissel/e/B002BLLAJ6/</a></span></div>
</span><u><span style="color: #000120;"></span></u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-91733376291395834502018-04-28T16:55:00.000-07:002018-04-28T16:56:40.343-07:00April in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Iwk5OQYOdic/WuUHaPCOphI/AAAAAAAAHYU/iRNgiLM0f3cIKR2b6JY6c_dJAl72tQImQCLcBGAs/s1600/Tulips%2Bwith%2Bhouse%2Bin%2Bbackground.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Iwk5OQYOdic/WuUHaPCOphI/AAAAAAAAHYU/iRNgiLM0f3cIKR2b6JY6c_dJAl72tQImQCLcBGAs/s400/Tulips%2Bwith%2Bhouse%2Bin%2Bbackground.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(In front of our farm-house)</span></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">You are likely to find me out in the garden, because the garden is where life is. Everything is green, growing, flowering, or with the promise of blooms and fruit to come. The garden is a vibrant place, and yet, deeply peaceful, too, and ever-changing. No two days in the garden are the same. Each day holds new discoveries. Spring is a giddy time, with so much to do at once.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. ~Thomas Fuller 1732 (This is very true)</span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F4GSlIpa6aw/WuUH1tpA93I/AAAAAAAAHYc/xWTCOPJYBLI-BxMoliNq2t_JQpsL5CmRwCLcBGAs/s1600/yellow%2Btulips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F4GSlIpa6aw/WuUH1tpA93I/AAAAAAAAHYc/xWTCOPJYBLI-BxMoliNq2t_JQpsL5CmRwCLcBGAs/s400/yellow%2Btulips.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">While much of the country is still buried under winter, those of us fortunate enough to dwell in the Shenandoah Valley, or 'The Shire' as I call it, are blessed with spring loveliness. Not that the weather doesn't waffle here, because it has and does, dipping back into frigid temps after luring everything into bloom. But most plants are hardy enough to withstand this whimsy. We are well accustomed to the annual dance. I cover my gullible lilies and pray for the blossoming trees.</span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NYSxIfvN1BI/WuUIsmslaqI/AAAAAAAAHY8/4_DMTjDJxQwwMpbg_qTTLGXfi4pqx1T3gCLcBGAs/s1600/Crabapple%2Bbeside%2Bthe%2Bhouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NYSxIfvN1BI/WuUIsmslaqI/AAAAAAAAHY8/4_DMTjDJxQwwMpbg_qTTLGXfi4pqx1T3gCLcBGAs/s400/Crabapple%2Bbeside%2Bthe%2Bhouse.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="color: black;">A new project has opened up in my gardening world with the redoing of our farm pond--digging out years of accumulating silt--and the expansion of the surrounding fence. This gives us much more room to grow our dreams, safe from munching cows, and a lot of tree planting has ensued. Yesterday, daughter Elise and I planted thirty additional trees and bushes on the pond banks, after a long planting session this past Saturday with the enthusiastic help of my three oldest grandsons. While we labored, we were surrounded by birdsong from meadowlarks, red-winged black birds, the song sparrow, killdeer, cardinals... It's hard work, but the pond will be glorious. Our aim is to plant for the birds, water fowl, fish, pollinators, and people. I'm envisioning magic.</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gp6JpCnryDg/WuUH-QPjRZI/AAAAAAAAHYg/MYqAJ76m0O8e8xv0N0L7OzTUpR1B1P2vACLcBGAs/s1600/pond%2Band%2Bwooded%2Bhills.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gp6JpCnryDg/WuUH-QPjRZI/AAAAAAAAHYg/MYqAJ76m0O8e8xv0N0L7OzTUpR1B1P2vACLcBGAs/s400/pond%2Band%2Bwooded%2Bhills.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">(One end of our Pond)</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NZvZJdAdVJw/WuUIK7kGKNI/AAAAAAAAHYo/e7EhhuZ34OM2bY03PwKuu4yd1zTtNV0VgCLcBGAs/s1600/Planting%2Btrees%2Bat%2Bthe%2Bpond.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NZvZJdAdVJw/WuUIK7kGKNI/AAAAAAAAHYo/e7EhhuZ34OM2bY03PwKuu4yd1zTtNV0VgCLcBGAs/s400/Planting%2Btrees%2Bat%2Bthe%2Bpond.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">(Elise, Me, and my three grandsons after a long tree planting day)</span></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">As for my writing, admittedly it has sagged as planting and gardening take priority, but I have a new story idea buzzing around in my head. Outside time gives me the opportunity to ponder my emerging plot. How can I not be inspired while enveloped in all this spring beauty?</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FIGkQIpi8Ok/WuUIWYdkPxI/AAAAAAAAHYw/5QnLLcKl8wAWskE8ZIiMS4fKiYmSx4HUQCLcBGAs/s1600/bluebells%2Bin%2Bfront%2Bof%2Bhouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FIGkQIpi8Ok/WuUIWYdkPxI/AAAAAAAAHYw/5QnLLcKl8wAWskE8ZIiMS4fKiYmSx4HUQCLcBGAs/s400/bluebells%2Bin%2Bfront%2Bof%2Bhouse.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">(Virginia Bluebells in front of our house)</span></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">"Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day." ~W. Earl Hall</span></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">"April is a promise that May is bound to keep." ~Hal Borland</span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mFfZmjjQeuA/WuUJGZaxRHI/AAAAAAAAHZI/hlpbp0_6EvQ19dR5ogh1MqZr_0dBKhDDwCLcBGAs/s1600/tulips%2Bred%2Bcolored.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mFfZmjjQeuA/WuUJGZaxRHI/AAAAAAAAHZI/hlpbp0_6EvQ19dR5ogh1MqZr_0dBKhDDwCLcBGAs/s400/tulips%2Bred%2Bcolored.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">"The naked earth is warm with Spring,</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">And with green grass and bursting trees</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Leans to the sun’s kiss glorying,</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">And quivers in the sunny breeze."</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">~Julian Grenfell</span></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">"In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours." ~Mark Twain</span></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">The sun was warm but the wind was chill.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">You know how it is with an April day.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">~Robert Frost</span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t_GLEb9LoCc/WuUJSCWU85I/AAAAAAAAHZM/mkHK7UoUnWs26uMaj_kUgA7iHwTFpdbXACLcBGAs/s1600/hyacinth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t_GLEb9LoCc/WuUJSCWU85I/AAAAAAAAHZM/mkHK7UoUnWs26uMaj_kUgA7iHwTFpdbXACLcBGAs/s400/hyacinth.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~Rainer Maria Rilke</span></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">"It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!" ~Mark Twain</span></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia","bitstream charter",serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black;">***Images by daughter Elise Trissel</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790393531570461115.post-62033432670229842532018-03-26T09:53:00.000-07:002018-03-26T10:14:18.374-07:00New #audiobook #historicalromance #Novel Traitor's Legacy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Journey back to the intrigue of the American Revolution, where spies can be anyone and trust may prove deadly. This gripping era comes to life in the rich tones of the audio book narrated by Lisa Valdini. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the story unfold and I already know what happens. If you like mystery, history, adventure, and romance, <em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic;">Traitor's Legacy</em> is for you.</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vIiUVsvU7d4/WrkqUQoE-QI/AAAAAAAAHVo/lKo8HpJU0Bksiiy1OxZfdBWoOoJYUVJ0gCLcBGAs/s1600/TraitorsLegacy_8945_2400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vIiUVsvU7d4/WrkqUQoE-QI/AAAAAAAAHVo/lKo8HpJU0Bksiiy1OxZfdBWoOoJYUVJ0gCLcBGAs/s320/TraitorsLegacy_8945_2400.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px;">Traitor's Legacy Blurb</strong>:</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px;" /> 1781. On opposite sides of the War of Independence, British Captain Jacob Vaughan and Claire Monroe find themselves thrust together by chance and expediency.</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Captain Vaughan comes to a stately North Carolina manor to catch a spy. Instead, he finds himself in bedlam: the head of the household is an old man ravaged by madness, the one sane male of the family is the very man he is hunting, and the household is overseen by his beguiling sister Claire.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Torn between duty, love, and allegiances, yearning desperately for peace, will Captain Vaughan and Claire Monroe forge a peace of their own against the vagaries of war and the betrayal of false friends?</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/fasthorse.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-12582" height="199" src="https://bethtrissel.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/fasthorse.jpg?w=300" style="display: block; float: left; height: 199px; margin: 7px 23.8px 2px 0px; max-width: 1000px;" width="300" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic;">Traitor's Legacy</em> is available in audio at <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Romance/Traitors-Legacy-Audiobook/B07BH7B5D6">Audible</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Legacy/dp/B07BH7WC4P/">Amazon</a>. Also available in kindle and print at Amazon, and in eBook from all online booksellers.</span></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 23.8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">While written to stand alone, <em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic;">Traitor's Legacy</em> is the sequel to award-winning historical romance novel<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Enemy-King-Beth-Trissel-ebook/dp/B002C73OZW/"> <em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 96, 255); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 96, 255); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 96, 255); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 96, 255); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic;">Enemy of the King</em></a>. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Curse-Legacy-Book-ebook/dp/B0165WGROE/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">Traitor's Curse</a> is book 3 in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Legacy-Beth-Trissel-ebook/dp/B01L5PSE1K/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">The Traitor's Legacy Series.</a></span></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br /></div>
Beth Trisselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742049964476824594noreply@blogger.com0