I took the photo of the goat in Brenham, Texas. It looked like the wind had caught his ear and covered his eye, or he was camera shy.
So I have spent several days reworking my author website. It’s still a work in progress. I need to work on ALL the book pages, but I was trying to set up the new landing page. It doesn’t look like another blog now. I still need to add a page for one of the categories of books so I can link to it and set up the printable page link for the book list. Unfortunately, when I began with a different setup, it kept posting automatically with all the changes to the world. With this one, they didn’t until I was ready and then I could just update it as I went along to see if everything was working. It’s supposed to be easy, and for the most part it was, but I managed to “break” things a few times.
I’m also proofing Highland Wolf. Off to work!
Hope you’re having a great ear day!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
When you’re always looked down on, it must be nice being on top of the world. Goat in Okinawa at a botanical gardens.
I’m off to proof. I’m nearly done with edits, have grandparents’ lunch day with my granddaughter today, but otherwise, hope to finish up Highland Wolf today. We had an inch of rain yesterday, yahoo!
Hope you sit up above the world today.
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
They had goats like this eating down the prolific vegetation in Okinawa. Isn’t he cute?
I managed to work on the Highland books yesterday, only 11K left to write on Highland Forest Nymph, finally settled on a title. The working title for years has been The Nymph of the Woods, but it was an English Medieval and it was done. But I never published it. To fit in with my Highland Medieval series, rather than have a single title floating out there, I’ve rewritten it to be Scottish. And she is in the Caledonian Forest of Scotland, so my brainstorming partner said it should be Forest instead of Woods. Now I just have to train my brain to see the title anew. lol I’ve been writing on this for about 15 years–wrote it in a few months and been revising it to fit the new story line for years. And it’s nearly done! Best of all, I love the way it’s been rewritten. And I worked on beta readers’ edits on Highland Wolf and am nearly done with those. So I will try and finish those up today and begin proofing.
Little one will be here any moment now, so off I go to get ready for him.
Have a beautiful day!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
So after being up for most of 32 hours on the trip home from Okinawa (I had gotten up at 6 a.m. but didn’t leave on the first flight until 6:30 p.m.), I’m still getting over jet lag! I wanted to sleep in this morning, finally, but the dogs wouldn’t have any part of it. lol I took Dramamine last night, and that helped.
I’ll be sharing some of pictures of the great time I had over there. Truly it was the experience of a lifetime. My son and daughter-in-law have learned a lot of Japanese, which really helped with everything.
From medieval castle ruins, whale watching, seeing the whale shark and false killer whales at the aquarium, feeding squirrel monkeys and eating the fabulous food from Thai and Okinawan to Japanese and Chinese, it was all great.
I realize I’ve been missing posting, but my sleep has been so erratic, and I had to take care of little one yesterday, and my son-in-law had to change out my car battery and we had lunch out on Tuesday, so it’s been hectic since I returned.
Hope your day is off to a great start!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
This is a picture I took of a curious goat out in the country in Brenham, Texas on a walk during a writer’s retreat. And then I played with a texture background. I am trying to do a course on turning these into watercolors in Photoshop, but I’m not doing something right. I like this the way it is though.
Another lovely, rainy day! Love it!! We had 4″ yesterday and 2″ this morning so far. I’ve been getting baby and big sister pictures done for my daughter and SIL, and I don’t have little one today, so I’m working on the story as soon as I finish the blog. Though I’ll probably run over and do some more outfit changes on my baby model. He is so good at sleeping while I’m redressing him and taking photos. My granddaughter was a squirmy little thing!
I was just reading about how cold overnight oats are really good for you, so I’m going to try it–though with steel cut oats, not rolled oats. Steel cut is what I normally eat. So I added flax seed, milk, and set in the fridge for tomorrow. We shall see. Sometimes things that are good for me I like…sometimes not!! I love the cooked kind, but it’s not as great for the gut health.
Usually, I’ve got my blog done by now. Don’t you wonder where the time goes? But I was editing the photos, and so that takes time.
Have a super, lovely day! I’m enjoying the rain while I’m writing and editing.
I’m not sure what this is. A mountain goat of some sort? I took the picture of him/her at the San Diego Zoo, and his fur looks soft enough to pet. Then I added some texture to the background when originally it was just a rock wall. I’ve never shown him before and it was time he received some love.
The temperatures are dropping and I’m cold! Normally, I get outside and do some weeding, but I feel like just hibernating right now.
A friend has set up a Fine Art account for her photography and I’ve had a lot of requests for photos turned into canvas, so I started working on setting up an account and we’ll see how it does. It’s really cool, and I might even order something off it for friends since it would be my own artwork and it would make it more special for them, hopefully!
Anyway, I finished proofing Saving a White Cougar and then I started on proofing Primal Desire. I’m up to ch 9–12 chapters to go. Once I’ve proofed it and I have nothing more to add, I’ll send it to my beta readers and then I’m off to finish white wolf! And work some more on You Had Me at Cougar.
I’ve read where we could have a Covid super spreader event after the Super Bowl this weekend, let’s hope folks have enough sense not to gather in large crowds. I’m going to the kids’ house to have grilled chicken wings. But it will be just the usual 4 of us.
Hope you all are staying safe. My daughter said she had to get another condolence card for someone’s older relative who had died from COVID.
I took the picture of the goat on a walk through Texas Hill Country and added the background, added the farmhouse and geese. When I posted it, another photographer asked where the troll was. See, I called him Billy Goat Gruff.
Don’t you love childhood stories? They stick with you for life. Did you ever see Willow? The trolls were bad news and reminded me of Three Billy Goats Gruff.
I told the photographer I had the picture of the troll, too. And I do. But I’ll have to find him!
Okay, so I’m off to work some more. I am now on Wolf in Mind, the novella to the 10th Anniversary release of Wolf Fever. I have 80 pages to go, finished 480!
