cakes – Oh, the Places We See . . .

Travel theme: Big Orange Sugar

When this week’s travel theme from Ailsa’s blog Where’s My Backpack? appeared in my mailbox, I immediately thought of a fundraiser for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library called The Great Cake Bake, celebrating books and the host of the event: the University of Tennessee. With that in mind, I searched my photo bank, and here are three […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Transmogrify

It’s a new term for me, this “transmogrify.” But learning a new word can be fun, especially if it’s the theme of a weekly photo challenge from WordPress. Transmogrify means “To change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.” So surely changing a bit of sugar into fondant or buttercream to form something totally different […]

Books and Buttercream at The Great Cake Bake

If there’s anything near and dear to the heart of a former English teacher (that would be me), it’s a celebration of books and the joy of reading. So when I heard that Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library would send a book a month — FREE, you see — I signed up my granddaughter as soon […]