Flower Friday: A few favorite trees

Trees have flowers too, or at least some of them do, so I can post tree photos on Flower Friday, right? Anyway, today I’m posting a few photos taken at the Dismals Park in Alabama.       Love the light filtering through the beech … Continue readingFlower Friday: A few favorite trees

Words of the Day: Advocatus diaboli, Adynamia, Adytum

As a writer it’s important I have a large vocabulary, so I’m reading through the dictionary and then posting interesting words here for accountability. Definitions come from Webster’s New World Dictionary of American English, Third College Edition, 1988. Advocatus diaboli A fancy way of saying Devil’s Advocate. … Continue readingWords of the Day: Advocatus diaboli, Adynamia, Adytum

Words of the Day: Adumbral, Adventure, Adventitious

I’ve been lax lately on my dictionary reading, though not so lax as my lack of Words of the Day posts would indicate. Never mind the excuses, on to the words. As usual, definitions come from Webster’s New World Dictionary of American English, Third College Edition, 1988. Adumbral … Continue readingWords of the Day: Adumbral, Adventure, Adventitious