Gallery (Updated 4.5.2014)
The Luncheon – Brownies!
These are addition photos just arrived from the Governor’s Mansion official photographer. Enjoy!
Menu – Quiche Lorraine, and Mts. Scott’s own Chicken Salad recipe.
Mary Lois & Tom with First Lady Ann Scott
MLS and First Lady Ann Scott
Secretary of State Ken Detzner, Co-Host of the Luncheon.
Tom touring the Florida Room … looking at the First Lady Miniatures Collection.
The Winning Books on Display in the Florida Authors Collection in the Governor’s Mansion Library.
“Florida’s Finest” Sculpture in the front garden of the Mansion. Sculpture by W. Stanley Proctor.
“Florida’s Finest” by W. Stanley Proctor
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The Birds on Our Pond
New Ducks on the Pond – Tree Ducks!
Wood Ibis (some call them storks!)
Egyptian Geese
Common Galanule or Mud Hen
Great Blue Heron & Ibis
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Click the “Mission to China” link and journey with us to China.
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In 2005 Tom and I traveled to PRC – the Peoples Republic of China – to the city of Nanning, GuangXi Province. There we joined a team of Baptists to teach English conversation to Chinese Middle School and High School age students in the University of GuangXi’s summer English program. We played tourist only one weekend with a visit to Gueilin and the Dragon’s Teeth mountains – a visit to another time as ancient as these sandstone formations.
A boat trip down the Li Po took us through the heart of the Dragon’s Teeth.
All Aboard for Yongshuo!
But we were not alone!
Rice farming – little change in 5000 years
In China the ancient ways resist change, while the new generation embraces it.
Cell phones & MP3s
Rice paddies and MP3s. A world apart, sitting side-by-side.
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I like that last few minutes on CBS Sunday Morning, when the camera just lets us see and hear nature. I can’t povide the sounds, but here’s the nature – from our 2010 trek to Colorado!
Colorado sunflowers
Wind farms of Eastern Colorado
Prong Horn
Aroyo School – Echos of children’s voices of the past
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Fiction Among Friends Writer’s Retreat, St. George Island, FL
Sunrise on St. George Island
Me (in pink) with my mouth open. I seem to always have an opinion!
Critiques and Brainstorming
1st Row: Judy, Sue, Evelyna, Alvarez, Perky; 2nd Row: Susan, Adrian, Pat & MLS
my other zone 
Interesting Blog. You’re off to a great start! Enjoyed the photos and learning more about you. Will look forward to peeking in regularly and see what’s new in your neck of the woods. Wishing you the best along your creative journey.
Your blog is great. Thoroughly enjoyed the refreshing photos and reading about your interesting background. The Sunday’s of your youth sounded so familiar. I appreciate the energy you use to ‘transfuse’ better writing methods to those of us who are new writers. I look forward to more info on your blog.
Thanks, Donna, welcome aboard! Hope you subscribed so you will receive notice of future posts.
MLS
Thanks for the photos, Mary Lois. I’m also a big fan of CBS Sunday Morning and love your Colorado photos, particularly the one of the wind farm. I pass a number of wind farms on my trips back and forth from FL to MN, but never take the time to stop and photograph them. You’ve inspired me. Maybe next time I’ll stop!
Hi ML: My most sincere congratulations on the Vision Seeker success! (I always knew it would come out awesome in the end, and now it has! Bask in the moment my friend, you have earned it through your dedication to writing and hard work in getting it exactly right!
Warmest regards,
Wilma