Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Spring Has Sprung and the Boats are Back in Lake Geneva!


The boats are visible, lined up at the docks in this shot of the beach.

I posted on The Barn Door blog earlier this week about the Lake Geneva Cruise Line's boat returning
to their summer home at the Riviera docks in Lake Geneva. What a joy it was to see pics of their beautiful excursion boat moving through waters that were finally free of ice!

Below is the beginning of my blog post. Click on the link to go to the actual blog where you can see pictures of the fleet.




As most Barn Door contributors can attest to, we in the Midwest have never been so anxious for spring as we’ve been this year, and it was very late in coming. Here in the Chicago area, just a week ago, we had another bout of measurable snow. It was mostly gone by the next day but even so, we were not happy campers!

Finally, by Easter weekend, the temperatures had warmed, and one sure sign of spring for me was when I checked the webcam that overlooks my hometown of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin’s lake front and saw  the excursion boats had returned to start another season of tours of the lakeshore. 

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

I'm Coming Out of Hibernation!! -

It's been a long and cold winter around my parts and with the Polar Vortex bearing down, I kind of put this blog into hibernation. But now I'm back and intend bring this site back to life with posts I write on other sites, book reviews, author interviews--stay tuned!


I haven't been totally off the grid as I contribute to several other blogs on a monthly basis. I thought I'd start with cross posting an article I posted at Novel Rocket earlier this week that was written by Ramona Richards, Senior Acquisitions Editor at Abingdon Press.

The Reality of an Author’s Legacy – What 
We Will Leave Behind
By Ramona Richards


Julie L. Cannon
Julie L. Cannon cared, deeply, about many things. Her family. Her God. Her art. In fact, she cared so much for God and the depth of her faith that she refused to take them out of her art. This cost Julie far more than many people realized, as she turned from releasing best-selling books with mainstream publishers to books written from her heart for the Christian market.

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