Barbara Samuel O'Neal is the author of more than thirty award-winning novels, including THE LOST RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS and

The Secret of Everything
The Secret of Everything

A native of Colorado, Barbara loves teaching, travel, reading, writing, yoga, walking, food, cooking, photography and...okay, reality television.

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The Ancient One

My old dog and her favorite thing…a fresh [...]

10 little stories about Michigan

10 little stories about Michigan over 4th of July, including fireworks, foodie visit to Zingerman’s, [...]

Wordless evening

 

A June Morning

 

Chive blossoms are such a beautiful color.  My mother used to make chive blossom vinegar and set the jars along the window sill.  A dazzlement.  This morning, to celebrate the sunshine, I made some too.  And put it in my window.

Practicing beauty

It seemed like I spent way too much time at this Internet computer last week.  Don’t get me wrong: the Internet is a valuable, interesting place and for an isolated writer, the most glorious communication tool ever invented.  However, I can find myself wasting time, and not productively wasting time, either (like Facebook quizes, which [...]

Sunday and a random beauty

This is the first day I’ve had off in….well, I honestly can’t remember the last one.   I went to Denver, met HB for lunch and caught up on things, wandered around the Tattered  Cover and shot photos, then came home and uploaded several weeks of daily shots.  I haven’t edited all of them, but you [...]

Australian photo tour now up on Flickr

Internet access–and time–became severely limited the final week of our long, insanely wonderful Aussie tour.   Since last Sunday, I have been on six flights, covering thousands of kilometers, visited the Outback, Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef, and Sydney, and now I’m typing this from my own laptop while I await Flickr to upload the photos [...]

Red boat

Back from the hike, and I think I might finally have figured out how to upload photos, though not how to edit the size.  So here is one I took last evening:

Most of the photos are still on my camera, but I’ll be adding them to Flickr as we go.