Jo's Other Place...
Being a small home for my poetry and prose,
photographs, memories, art, and influences.
Click above to hear Jo's husband, Carl, singing "Softly As I Leave You"
Jo's account of being an extra in Pittsburgh during the filming of The Next Three Days
New Photo Albums: (scroll to bottom of page for complete album listings)
Summer of '10
Page One: Blossoms
Page Two: Lakes 'n Rivers
Page Three: By and On Keystone Lake
Page Four: Outdoor Garden at Phipps
Page Five: Wedding at the Depot
Nine new albums dealing with the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889 (May 9, 2010)
Index Here for the flood albums
New River Gorge & Bridge, WV (April 18, 2010)
Glen Cairn Azalea Gardens (April 19, 2010)
Water-sparkles, goslings, courtyards, etc. (April 18-22, 2010)
Pittsburgh Walkabout (March 6, 2010) 3 pages
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Newest poem:
In Our Path (June 28, 2009) Last poem I did...need to do more!
Top from left: 4th birthday in Dallas, Mt. Lebanon Park taken by Carl, 39th birthday,
Evan napping 1969 (my hair is rolled) Middle: visiting SC around 1973, Laura's wedding,
purse being goat-eaten in Pittsburgh, 9th grade in SC Bottom: Age 35 visiting SC, age 3
in Baltimore, bathing Allan 1967 in SC, 5 years old San Diego
Index of Poetry and Prose:
The top several of these are mostly, not all, much older than the ones further down the list...
as with the photo albums, the most recent will always be at the bottom of the list.
4. April Manna
10. The Gift
11. Piano
12. The Last Battle
13. Crusade
15. Promises In Fuzzy Blankets
16. A Rough Row
18. Blossom
19. Autumn Evening
20. Old Cedar
21. Perk Love
22. Springs Ago
23. Great Blue Heron
24. Garden Parable
27. Emily's Rainbow
28. Waiting Thoughts
29. The Little Golden Butterfly
31. When Trees Could Talk About Their Scars
33. Her Place
35. Voices of Aspens
40. Dusty Bottles
41. A Star At the Heart of Things
43. Floating Petals
45. The Crumpled Can
46. A Lasting Thing
47. The Business of His Gathering
48. As He Left Them
49. The Tear
50. If This Is All I Ever Know of Love
51. White Blossoms
52. Angel's Hem
54. Angel Wing
56. Worn Pilings
59. Contest
60. The Speaking
62. Stone Lion
64. In Our Path
One-Paragraph Tales:
2. Yellow Piano
5. Penguin Mall
7. Passing By
9. Meet Me...
11.Outback Love
A series of angel pictures I''ve created
Picture Sagas:
Not written by me, but saved by me from my youth and
become a part of me, shaping who I am, how I write...
Photo Albums:
One: Flowers I Have Grown
Two: Skies I've Seen
Three: Slow-motion Fireworks
Four: My Pennsylvania Autumns
Five: The Barbarian Horde:
Six: My Three (Allan, Evan, Laura)
Seven: Past Paragraphed (my life)
Eight: Eastleigh Court (Kent, England)
Nine: The Rug
Eleven: Victorian Glory of Cape May
Twelve: Niagara Falls in January
Thirteen: Heinz Chapel in February
Fourteen: An Icy Valentine
Fifteen: April Drama
Sixteen: Pittsburgh and the Dancing Waters
Seventeen: Places of Rebellion
Eighteen: Riverboat Afternoon
Nineteen: PPG...my love affair with a building
Twenty: Fallingwater
Twenty-one: Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown index
Twenty-two: Cowboy
Twenty-three: Family Wedding at Linden Hall
Twenty-four: Two Days in Autumn (includes McConnell's Mill)
Twenty-five: Old Economy: gardens & wedding
Twenty-six: Places & Things That Caught My Eye
Twenty-seven: Flour Sacks and Indians (Bushy Run)
Twenty-eight: Merry-go-round
Twenty-nine: Flight 93 site, Gettysburg, Amish Country
Thirty: Old Barns
Thirty-one: Elegance (Heinz Hall)
Thirty-two: Re-enactment of the 1763 Battle of Bushy Run
Thirty-three: The Castle on the Table
Thirty-four: Renaissance Festival
Thirty-five: Fort Ligonier 1758
Thirty-six: Victorian Bellefonte
Thirty-seven: If I Should Walk An Hour Alone
Thirty-eight: Does A Leaf Have A Tale? Part One
Thirty-nine: Sunlit Water
Forty: The View From the Summit
Forty-one: Wellington Autumn
Forty-two: Autumn Out My Car Window
Forty-three: Washington Was Everywhere!
Forty-four: Does A Leaf Have A Tale? Part Two
Forty-five: A Bittersweet Day At Bushy Run
Forty-six: An Autumn Farm On the Way
Forty-seven: Uphill at Duff in Autumn
Forty-eight: Autumn by My House...and in the Felix Forest with Joey
Forty-nine: First Wellington Christmas
Fifty: Wellington Snow (Dec. 12, 2008)
Fifty-one: Winter Magic (Dec. 13, 2008) 3 albums, with frosty roads, farms,
Bushy Run under snow, and a night-time riverboat cruise
Fifty-two: Christmas at Darcy's (Dec. 14, 2008)
Fifty-three: McConnell's Mill/Lake Arthur (May 11, 2009)
Fifty-four: Festoonings...ivy,wild roses, honeysuckle (June 1, 2009)
Fifty-five: Greenhouse Hobbles...around Phipps Conservatory with a cane (July 10, 2009)
Part Two: Butterflies and Orchids (July 11, 2009)
Fifty-six: Rainbows & Fireworks on the River (July 18, 2009)
Fifty-seven: Fallingwater on July 21, 2009
Fifty-eight: Youghiogheny River & Summit Inn (July 21, 2009)
Fifty-nine: Heinz Chapel and the Nationality Rooms (July 19, 2009)
Sixty: A Medieval Wedding (2 pages) (September 6, 2009)
Sixty-one: Along the Conemaugh (September 13, 2009)
Sixty-two: Penn's Colony (September 20, 2009)
Sixty-three: A Grassy Slope, a Pond, a Wedding (October 3, 2009)
Sixty-four: Crooked Creek Lake in Autumn (October 11, 2009)
Sixty-five: Kittanning...and more autumn (October 11, 2009)
(Kittanning is where they filmed the town and bridge collapse for The Mothman Prophecies)
Sixty-six: Mountain Wanderings (October 18, 2009...2 pages)
Sixty-seven: Chasing the Last of Fall (October 19, 2009...3 pages)
Sixty-eight: Punxsutawney and Groundhog Day (October 25, 2009)
Sixty-nine: Keystone Lake and Autumn Yellows (October 25 & 26, 2009)
Seventy: Crooked Creek Lake...new parts and with Joey (Nov. 1, 2009)
Seventy-one: Twin Lakes (November 7, 2009)
Seventy-two: TreeStudy (Christmas 2009)
Seventy-three: Snowball (February 2010)
Seventy-four: Pittsburgh Walkabout (March 6, 2010) 3 pages
Seventy-five: New River Gorge & Bridge, WV (April 18, 2010)
Seventy-six: Glen Cairn Azalea Gardens (April 19, 2010)
Seventy-seven: Water-sparkles, goslings, courtyards, etc. (April 18-22, 2010)
Seventy-eight: 9 new albums dealing with the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889
(May 9, 2010) Index Here for the flood albums
Seventy-nine: Summer of '10
Page One: Blossoms
Page Two: Lakes 'n Rivers
Page Three: By and On Keystone Lake
Page Four: Outdoor Garden at Phipps
Page Five: Wedding at the Depot
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