"I'm Ready for My Close-Up, Mr. DeMille"

Just spent three hours cleaning my house from stem to stern. (I'll have a guest next week, so thought I'd better make my place presentable.) Good Lord, what a chore--but it looks so great now that I want House Beautiful to take notice!  (Not that my place would ever pass muster for a layout like that, but... that's how proud I am of how it looks right now!)  After this much toil, that's the least I should expect, right?

Right!

Goodnight!

I'm zzzzzzausted!

Heads Up-- Four Updates Elance StarTrek.com Encore Life Magazine

I'm less than $200 away from earning $100,000 (cumulatively) as a copywriter/editor at Elance. They asked me if I'd do an interview with them to celebrate the milestone. I said yes! So mid-week (this week) the interview I did will appear on the Elance blog. Go to Elance.com to see it.

Sometime soon (this  month I believe) an article I wrote about being DeForest Kelley's caregiver will appear in Encore Life Magazine online. (You can get a free subscription. If you do, they'll ping you whenever a new edition comes out.)

In June. StarTrek.com will publish an interview with me about my long association with DeForest Kelley

Sometime relatively soon (but probably not in June) the enhanced version of my Kelley book (Harvest) will debut. The new title: DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal: A Harvest of Memories. Publisher: Futureword Publishing.

STAY TUNED!!

Photos from Trip to Skagit Valley Tulip Festival and La Conner Washington April 25 2013

All photos copyright April 25, 2013 by Kristine M. Smith

If you want to reprint them or use them professionally, simply contact me!!!

I'm easy UNLESS they get stolen--then I'll become maniacal!

(kristinemsmithATmsnDOTcom)

 

c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Waterwheel at Tulip Town, Skagit County, WA

c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Bronze Sculpture at Tulip Town, Skagit County WA

 c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Peace Garden, Tulip Town, Skagit County WA

c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Orange Tulips C/U

c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Photographer Sharon Uhlig doing what she does best!

(My photos are pale and puny in comparison!)

 c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Barn and Tulip Field, Tulip Town, Skagit County WA

c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Old Barn, Skagit County WA

 c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Old Silo

c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Pretty Horse, Skagit County, WA

c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Bald Eagle in Tree, Skagit County, WA

c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Another View of Bald Eagle in Tree

Skagit County, WA

c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Seagull, La Conner WA

c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Artificial Waterfall, La Conner, WA

c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Sharon Uhlig at Dinner, La Conner WA

c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Sunset, Outside  La Conner WA

c. 4/25/2013 by Kristine M Smith

Leo and Sharon Uhlig, Outside LaConner WA

Thanks to Dr. Mary Jo Robinson for This Adorable Photo: Want to Hug all the Goats!

Goodness! We Got Our First Egg from the New Chicks Already!

Goodness gracious sakes alive--these Wyandotte chickens are mighty precocious! We got them as chicks on the 12th of February and here it is only the 20th of April and we have our first egg from one of them!

Our Rhode Island Reds didn't lay until August (we got them February last year)...

I took a photo of a new egg next to a Rhody's egg so you can see the difference...if I can get it downloaded from Jackie's camera and PC to mine...

Parents, Sit Back and Listen to This--It Will Rock Your World!!

Parents, sit back and listen to this... I will rock your world!

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/66

Lousy Day for the Puyallup Daffodil Parade--Cold, Blustery, Rainy...

I feel sorry for everyone involved with the Daffodil Parade today-- it's a totally crappy day to be out and about... feels like it could snow, almost!!