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RAINING IN THE TREES
Raining in the Trees
National Novel Writing Month
Idea # 12
"Have you ever noticed how, when the rain stops pouring down and it trickles through the leaves and when all is said and done, it's still raining in the trees."
Bryan Lubeck
Bryan Lubeck
This novel is about a group of friends
whose lives feel like it is still
raining in the trees.
Painting
NEGRETTI Ester, "Una giornata di pioggia", 2005
Painting
NEGRETTI Ester, "Una giornata di pioggia", 2005
Oct 28, 2016
WEATHER RELATED - National Novel Writing Month Book Idea # 11
WEATHER RELATED
National Novel Writing Month
Book Idea # 11
Della
French is flying from New York to San Francisco via Chicago. For Della, a two-hour
weather delay was made easier by her seat in first class and the two men
sitting with her.
Charles
Gray a forty-year old psychotherapist who claims he studied astrology in India
is handsome and charismatic. Eric Dyson is an older business man who talks
about collecting cars and wine. For the next five hours, the three talk, eat
snacks, and drink wine.
At
O’Hare, the three learn they have missed the last flight to San Francisco. Standing
in the customer service line, while Dyson talks to United on his phone, Della
and Charles chat and flirt.
When
the three finally reach a United agent, they learn they are all booked on a flight
at seven fifteen in the morning. According to agent, they can stay in the
airport and sleep on a cot or they can use a voucher to stay at a local hotel. Unfortunately,
all the airport hotels are booked. The
agent says there is a Best Western some thirteen miles from the airport that is
“passable.”
Standing
behind Della, Dyson informs the agent the 1K desk said she should book him a room
at a nearby Marriott. Eventually after considerable argument, the agent calls
the Marriott and arranges for three rooms. Obviously angry, the Agent informs
the travelers their luggage is already on its way to San Francisco and because
of the late hour they must take a cab the hotel.
On
the way to the cab stand, Dyson asks Della if she is hungry or would like a
drink. When she says yes to both, Dyson suggests they check in and then go
downtown to a late-night jazz club he knows. When Charles is quick to say, he
loves the idea. Della agrees, even though she knows she is being impulsive.
Over the course of
the next six hours Dyson will show Della and Charles a side of Chicago that few
travelers ever see and even fewer survive.
Oct 26, 2016
GOODNIGHT KISS National Novel Writing Month Idea # 10
GOODNIGHT KISS
National Novel Writing Month
Idea # 10
The Story of a P-38M
Night Lighting
Developed late in the war and equipped with radar, the P-38M or
Night Lightings were night fighters patrolling
the skies over France and Germany.
This is the story of one plane,
the GOODNIGHT KISS.
GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORAL - Oct 26 1881
GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORAL
30 seconds that changed the history of the west
From Wikipedia
The Gunfight at the
O.K. Corral was a 30-second shootout between lawmen and members of a loosely
organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that took place at about 3:00
p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.
It is
generally regarded as the most famous shootout in the history of the American
Wild West. The gunfight was the result of a long-simmering feud, with Cowboys
Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury on one side
and town Marshal Virgil Earp, Special Policeman Morgan Earp, Special Policeman
Wyatt Earp, and temporary policeman Doc Holliday on the other side. All three
Earp brothers had been the target of repeated death threats made by the Cowboys,
who objected to the Earps' interference in their illegal activities.
Billy
Clanton and both McLaury brothers were killed. Ike Clanton claimed that he was
unarmed and ran from the fight, along with Billy Claiborne. Virgil, Morgan, and
Doc Holliday were wounded, but Wyatt Earp was unharmed. The shootout has come
to represent a period of the American Old West when the frontier was virtually
an open range for outlaws, largely unopposed by law enforcement officers who
were spread thin over vast territories.
Oct 25, 2016
2106 & 2015 National Novel Writing Month Book Ideas
2106 National Novel Writing Month
8 of 12 book ideas
2015
10 / 10 book ideas
Selected for 2015
Oct 24, 2016
Murder in Horseshoe Canyon - National Novel Writing Month - Book Idea # 8
Murder in Horseshoe Canyon
National Novel Writing Month
Book Idea # 8
Murder in Horseshoe Canyon. A park ranger sent to find, a missing archaeologist is found murdered in Horseshoe Canyon. Sheriff James Haskie and Park Ranger Bessie Saganey are called in to investigate the murder and find the missing scientist.
Oct 22, 2016
SPIRIT LAKE - NaNoWriMo Idea # 7
SPIRIT LAKE
National Novel Writing Month
Book Idea # 7
Cover Idea
Spirit Lake. Kelly and Greg Geist agreed they need a break; time away from jobs and family in Chicago. Greg wants to get back to his Minnesota roots. Kelly just wants to be alone; perhaps even from Greg. The rental agent said she had the perfect place; an isolated cottage on a small square lake in northern Minnesota. She was certain the cabin on Spirit Lake would change their lives.
Oct 21, 2016
QUICKSILVER - National Novel Writing Month - Book Idea # 6
QUICKSILVER
National Novel Writing Month
Book Idea # 6
Nathan Hilton has taken a job riding shotgun on a mining wagon from the Sulphur
Bank Mines over Mt Saint Helena to the rail head in Calistoga. The wagon carries
mercury from the mines and returns with cash for the miners. In the 1880s,
mining towns like Quicksilver grew up faster than the law needed to protect the
miners. Only men like Nathan stood in the way of highwaymen and outlaws, like
Black Bart.
Oct 19, 2016
We Gotta Get Tyree a Woman - Book Idea # 5 - for National Novel Writing Month (Nov, 2016)
For National Novel Writing Month
(NaNoWriMo, Nov, 2016)
Book Idea # 5
We gotta get Tyree a
woman.
When the immigration officer on Ellis Island asked Craig MacDonald his name and
place of birth, he answered proudly Tiree Eilean; naming the island in Scotland where he was born. From that moment forward Craig became Tyree Eland future rancher and
Texan. For five generations the Elands have raised mustangs and beef cows in West Texas. Following
tradition, the first son is named Tyree and the second son is named MacDonald.
Tyree,
IV and his brother Mac love being cowboys. Tyree wants nothing more than
to ride the range and push beef. In high school the
boys called Tyree the cow whisperer because of his ability to gentle a herd. His
brother MacDonald was known as the cowgirl whisperer, for similar reasons. As
natural as Tyree is with cattle, he is a failure with women and Mac is worried
his brother might be the last Tyree in the family unless Mac can find Tyree a
woman who will understand his tendency to talk to long horns.
Oct 18, 2016
SPIDER WEB - Nanowrimo idea # 4
A NANOWRIMO BOOK IDEA (#4)
Oct 18 2016
Spider Web
Cover Options
Spider Web. Traveling back in time is one thing. Getting safely back is another. After giving a lecture on the barriers to time travel, Harvard physicist Mathew Wild spends the night with Dr. Victoria Nelson and her daughter Katie. In what seems to be a dream, a visitor from the future gives Katie a message for Dr. Wild. She tells him, a spider web begins with a single thread thrown in the wind. If the thread catches, the spider uses it to create a bridge. This message will ultimately send Dr. Wild and Katie on a journey into another world and another time.
Oct 17, 2016
FOX HUNT - A NANOWRIMO story idea
FOX HUNT
A NANOWRIMO story idea (#3)
The Allies secret mission to hunt down
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Cover Options
THE LONDON BEER FLOOD - a Dark Day for Beer
OCT 17, 1814
THE LONDON BEER FLOOD
From Wikipedia
The London Beer Flood happened on 17 October
1814 in the parish of St. Giles, London, England. At the Meux and Company
Brewery on Tottenham Court Road, a huge vat containing over 135,000 imperial
gallons (610,000 L) of beer ruptured, causing other vats in the same building
to succumb in a domino effect. As a result, more than 323,000 imperial gallons
(1,470,000 L) of beer burst out and gushed into the streets. The wave of beer
destroyed two homes and crumbled the wall of the Tavistock Arms Pub, trapping
teenage employee Eleanor Cooper under the rubble. Within minutes neighboring
George Street and New Street were swamped with alcohol, killing a mother and
daughter who were taking tea, and surging through a room of people gathered for
a wake.
Oct 16, 2016
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Launch Party Photos
2016 Redwood Writers Anthology
Roger C. Lubeck, Editor-in-Chief
Launch Party Photos
Sep 23, 2016
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Sep 10, 2016
9 - 10 - 2001
Where were you on 9 /11 / 2001?
I was in NYC on 9/10/2001
Fifteen years ago today I was working in New
York City.
I was on the last United flight to Chicago out of LaGuardia.
The
flight was delayed and nearly canceled.
I
arrived home after midnight.
the next morning, I was heading to O’Hare at 7:00 a.m. for a
flight to Texas.
I was listening to NPR when the first plane hit the Towers.
Call it luck, chance, or fate;
If my flight on 9/10 had been cancelled,
I would have been in New York City on 9/11.
Sep 2, 2016
Aug 23, 2016
Small Hummingbird Feeder
Hummers at Small Hand Feeder
8 23 2016
The little feeder with the yellow top is a hand feeder.
This is phase one getting birds to use the feeder.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY IAN ANDERSON
Ian Scott Anderson
Aug 10, 1947
Ian Scott Anderson, MBE (born 10 August 1947) is a Scottish-born musician, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as the lead vocalist, flautist and acoustic guitarist of British rock band Jethro Tull. Anderson plays several other musical instruments, including keyboards, bass guitar, bouzouki, balalaika, saxophone, harmonica, and a variety of whistles. His solo work began with the 1983 album Walk into Light, and since then he released another five works, including the sequel of Jethro Tull album Thick as a Brick (1972) in 2012, entitled Thick as a Brick 2.
My Favorite Album - BENEFIT
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