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Do rainy days always get you down, or are they the best days for creativity?

For every action, there is a reaction. Which makes choosing the right actions pretty important, even when the actions are pretty...

The Rain on the Plains by Jann Alexander ©2015 On an especially rainy, chill day  (where the view from my window echoes the one...

16 Dreaded Adverbs , According to the Hemingway Editor Adverbs are terribly out of favor , and I frankly cannot understand why. I...

Having trouble getting into the studio to create? Here are a few tried-and-true tricks I’ve developed. Trot these out when you need that...

Maine Pattern by Jann Alexander ©2013 What does a photograph mean to me? To you? Photographs, like all art, elicit our emotions and our...

A Twist on Fall Color by Jann Alexander © 2014 “The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.” —JAMES HILLMAN...

Water Colors by Jann Alexander © 2010 “Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they...

Pearls Before Lobster, stunning in cursive letters , by Jann Alexander © 2014 Some themes emerged and merged this week, involving...

Pearls Before Lobster by Jann Alexander © 2014 By Jann Alexander How one thing leads to another. Live and Cooked ©2014 I followed the...

Farewell from Lucy’s by Jann Alexander © 2013 Letters have been my passion for nearly my entire life, thanks to a few requirements. I...

When it’s ready to throw up its March bloom, the Spanish Dagger’s magnificent flower always comes out on top. The thick-leaf yucca...

A Pot of Gold in the Badlands by Jann Alexander © 2012 As if the Badlands in South Dakota aren’t breathtaking enough, a rainbow...

Terlingua Ghosts by Jann Alexander © 2012 The small town of Terlingua, Texas, near the Mexico border, is a former cinnabar-mining...

Mayan Messenger by Jann Alexander © 2012  You can climb to the top of a distant civilization in Tecoh, a tiny Yucatán town whose...

It’s all about you. Who you are is what you make, and what you make of it. — Jann Alexander on Influences .  .  .  .  . HERE’S WHERE I...