Did you know we’ve already had one full moon this month and it was called the Mouse Moon? There’ll be another this month, making it a blue moon. Its name? The Sap Moon. March abounds with weather lore, folklore, poems, fact and fiction. It’s an unreliable month, rather unstable as the seasons change from winter […]
Mar 4, 2018
Stuff to Take With You into March
Filed Under: Musings · Tagged: books, folklore, Manos, mysteries, old sayings, poetry, weather lore
Feb 16, 2017
Go With What You’ve Got
“Go with what you’ve got” is one of those folks sayings Jane, Carolyn, Peg, and I grew up with. Jane brought a long list of others: I really don’t want to get into it now; If I agree with you, we’d both be wrong; I’m supposed o respect my elders but it’s getting harder and […]
Filed Under: Musings · Tagged: Arkansas writers, art, Blanche Day Manos, By the Fright of the Silvery Moon, cozy mysteries, creeks, drawing, hills, Moonlight Can Be Murder, mysteries, Oklahoma mysteries, Oklahoma writers, old sayings, reading, writing
Jul 1, 2016
The Month of Mighty Caesar
By Blanche Manos · 2 Comments
Happy July 1 everyone! Summer is in full swing; the birth month of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar is here. July also contains the birthday of our country, birthdays of two of my brothers and two nephews and a beloved horse, Chappo. July abounds with customs and old sayings. Here’s one: If the first of […]
Filed Under: Mysteries · Tagged: cozy mysteries, July, Manos, Oklahoma, old sayings, traditions, women sleuths