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THE Project: Corncribs

Feb 292012

Hello Wednesday. In honor of this very rainy, grey day, I’ll be posting bright, sunny pictures. Ha, so there. Take that, weather.

Carrying on to THE Project. This is a project that’s been in my head for some time. I’m really excited to share it with you.

May I introduce to you THE Project. The first part isn’t an acronym, I promise. It just looks cooler with capital letters. Every so often, I’ll post a set of pictures portraying either an object or theme. Themes will be based on books. Sound cool? Yep, I’m excited too. I feel that I tend to snap a few pictures of something, and then move on without digging deeper and discovering what else the object offers for my camera. THE Project is meant to be a deliberate look at how I shoot photos.

You’re welcome to join me, if you wish. Comment with the link to your blog post – I’d love to see your take on THE Project. No pressure though. This is a personal journey, not a meme or a weekly blog link-up.

The corncribs exist in so many of my childhood memories. For as long as I can remember, they’ve always stood there – two metal cages. One is entirely clean, while the other is covered in vines, and has been often used by the cattle for shade. Once upon a time, they held thousands of ears of feed corn – food for the cattle in the wintertime. Now that we do not grow feed corn, they stand as landmarks alongside the road to the barns.

Have a lovely Wednesday!

GFC Termination (how to subscribe to FGW)

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Feb 282012

As you all know, I’m a WordPress girl. Farmgirl Writes is run through WordPress, and I honestly wouldn’t have it any other way. (Although, the shift from Blogger was erm, interesting.)

I know many of you subscribe to Farmgirl Writes with Google Friend Connect (335 of you!). You may have heard that Google is terminating the ability for non-Blogger blogs to use GFC. I’m already beginning to notice that my posts aren’t showing up in the Blogger feed. On Thursday, this tool will not be available for my use anymore. Which brings me to the point of this post.

If you want to subscribe to my blog, there are other ways of doing so. I highly recommend Bloglovin, which I use myself. I’m sure you’ll have heard me sing it’s praises previously.

Google Reader and Feedburner are other great options. You’re welcome to subscribe via email as well. (Please note, I post daily, so you will receive an email 6 days a week.)

Monday Inspiration (4)

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Feb 272012

1:: Photography Inspiration. This article on shooting Mardi Gras food from PhotoTuts +. (link) A Brunch Picnic from CAKE. (link) The gorgeous photos from this Washington DC wedding on Style Me Pretty. (link) The weekend photographs from Simi at In Search of Beautiful. She’s talented, people. (link)

2:: Inspiration Posts. Today’s post marks one month of my Monday Inspiration posts. I can’t tell you enough how I love doing them. They also provide me with the opportunity to *ahem* have one more day to draft posts for the rest of the week. What do you think?

3:: On the Blog This Week.

4:: Oscar Red Carpet Loves. The only reason I watch/look at pictures from the Oscars is to see the dresses on the red carpet. True confession there. Here are my favorites from last night.

All red carpet images from MTV. Click to be taken to original image.

5:: Food Inspiration. Moroccan Mint Roasted Vegetables from 101 Cookbooks. (link) Purple Cauliflower Fritters with Garlic and Coriander Dressing from Sips and Spoonfuls. (link)

Saturday Inspiration

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Feb 252012

I absolutely love Design Seeds – do you? (link) It’s turning me into a color-holic.

If you want to make your own color palettes, try Colour Lovers. (link)

Have a wonderful weekend, friends!

Honors Interview Recap and Springtime

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Feb 232012

I WAS going to show you pretty pictures, guys. I really was. But I got a late start, and now Flickr is down.

Just my luck.

It’s all good though, because I’m long overdue to tell ya’ll about last week’s adventures in honors-interview-land. Here’s the short version:

Went to Scholars Day at the college that I’m not supposed to tell you the name of because this is the internet. Essentially, the college I’ll be going to in the fall. *fist-pump* Met some awesome girls, and we ended up exchanging emails and Facebooks and laughs and planning on rooming together in the fall. Met up with dad again and went to the admissions office for the honors interview. Walked in feeling super nervous, and walked out feeling super awesome. (Let’s hope this is a sign of if I’ll get into the program, shall we?) Oh, and the professor had an awesome accent. The end.

I was going to give you a long, dictionary-length version, like the one I bombarded my poor father with on the way home, but I won’t. It ended up being an awesome day, and it made me even more excited to go to university in the fall. Was that even possible?

Oh, lookie here – Flickr is back up again. Magic.