Here’s hoping these floral images brighten your day!

NOTE: Though I can take pics of flowers fairly well, I do not have a green thumb. Most of these flowers are from the Georgia Southern or Savannah Botanical Gardens.

Last weekend, my husband surprised me with tickets to the NASCAR Nationwide race at Darlington, otherwise known as The Lady in Black. I’ll blog more about the experience later, but for now, here are some of the pictures I took:

Many thanks to my Twitter friends Nicole Hornig for connecting me with Nationwide driver Benny Gordon; the [...]

If you have five minutes on your hands and want a little design fun, pop on over to PhotoFunia. You can upload your photo and choose from dozens of effects. Here I am in Three Colours, my favorite effect so far . . . 
 

Many thanks to Brett Pohlman for sharing this idea on Twitter today.

Note: The following article is based on a reflection exercise faculty members participated in at Poynter Institute’s Teaching Diversity Across the Curriculum conference last week in St. Petersburg, Fla. In small groups, we went to Listening Posts across the city, where we were instructed to observe a culture unlike our own. Dennis, Kym, Earnest and [...]

Calla Lily

Originally uploaded by barbara_nixon

Yesterday afternoon, I was at the Savannah Botanical Garden with my #2 son. He was helping me find flowers to take extreme close-ups of. We came across this calla lily. I was struck by how white the petal was. It wasn’t until last night when I was showing my husband my [...]