Mosaic Moments from the Gallery

 Since I'm totally swamped by edits for The Stone Soldier and the Lady and Blogger decided to delete half my blog as I uploaded the final picture (!), a gallery of Mosaic Moments will have to do for this week's blog. But not without mention of the tragedy in Texas. Such a horrible loss of human life that might have been prevented if the area had gone through with plans for a warning siren - "under discussion" since 2016! But the efforts of those who worked non-stop at rescue and recovery is truly heroic, as are the efforts of teams from all over the country who have joined the unbelievably demanding recovery efforts since the flood. However many faults our politicians my have, the American people always come through in a crisis.

BUT . . .

Our storms become worse and worse. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, et al. We MUST fight those who claim Global Warming is a myth before it's not only too late for warning sirens but too late to build a fleet of Arks! 

 

From the Orlando Sentinel:  

 

 Shades of the past—from 1953:

  

Sheri Cobb South's backyard, June 2025

 

For anyone who thinks those are male deer, they're ELK.

 

General Sherman Tree

The General Sherman Tree is in Sequoia National Forest, CA. It is 275 tall, 36 feet in diameter, and believed to be around 2200 years old.

Altamonte Springs, FL - by Steve Studenc

Weekee Wachee Springs, FL - by Paul Delegatto

Glencoe, Scotland - by "Visit Scotland"

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 This week's featured series:

A storm is featured in one of the Matthew Wolfe novellas, but I can't remember which one, so below are all three covers, plus the blurb for Book 3. (This is the series designed to be light and amusing during the dark times of the Covid crisis.)                                                  

 

Matthew Wolfe's life has been one problem after another, most of them dramatic, many dangerous, and some heart-breaking. Despite all the friends he has made and all he has learned along the way, he knows only a tantalizing hint of his father's family and nothing about his mother's. As Book 3 opens, he is hoping to combine the pursuit of an elusive gang of gem thieves with a closer look into a possible personal link to the royal family of a small Alpine country, when, suddenly, Jocelyn Ainsley pops back into his life and, along with her, his worst problem—the trauma of his mother's death in childbirth, which has left Matthew determined never to marry. (Even if a bastard from Seven Dials could ever raise his eyes as high as the daughter of a baronet.)

In this final book of the series, Matthew's dramatic past, his adventurous present, and his remarkable future finally come together as he discovers both sides of his heritage, settles the Affair of the Gem Thieves in an unexpected and bittersweet fashion, and, with perhaps too much advice from friends and family, is forced to face the final challenge standing in the way of Happily Ever After.

 

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