Patricia Stoltey

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Summer in All Its Glory

July 14, 2019 By: Patricia

I’ve been more focused on my flowers and my tomato plants this summer than my writing. It’s not lollygagging, though. I do a lot of writing in my head and planning while I’m watering and pulling weeds.

Yesterday, I was standing idly by my garden boxes, watering the tomatoes, when a new visitor showed up — the first tiger swallowtail I’d seen in my yard ever. Planting new flowers has brought new benefits. Of course, I didn’t have a camera with me. I did a little online search and found the exact butterfly I saw. Interestingly enough, the photo shows the creature on a yellow-orange day lily (I think they’re Stella d’Oro), which is exactly what my tiny guest was enjoying in my garden.

https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-and-white-butterfly-perch-on-yellow-petaled-flower-67811/

I have a few other pretties to show you as well. This floribunda rose is called Doris Day, which I thought fitting in memory of one of my all-time favorite singers. She was an awesome actress as well. Have you seen Calamity Jane? Or Love Me or Leave Me? She could do comedy, romance, and drama equally well.

This lily came up on its own this year and I don’t remember buying or planting it last year. I know memory goes fast as we age, but you’d think I’d recall buying a flower this dramatic. When viewed with the naked eye, it’s pure orange. But when I tried to photograph it in the sun, the center of all the petals were yellow. I had to shade the flower to get even this much orange.

Other Stuff

I’m a monthly contributor to the Blood-Red Pencil Blog. My most recent posts there include:

May: The Writer’s Conundrum: How Much Online Time is Too Much?

June: A National Month (or Twelve) Just for Me

My blog is now open for guest bloggers. Colorado mystery author Jodi Burnett will be here on Wednesday, July 24th, with an excerpt from her new release, Hidden in the Hills.

And finally, this is my gardening assistant, Sassy. Her nose is always right in the spot I’m digging or pulling weeds. I think she likes the fresh earth smell.

Category: Blood-Red Pencil blog, Books and Authors, Photography, The Writing Life

Want to Visit More Stops on the Lourey/Baker Double-Booked Tour?

August 6, 2016 By: Patricia

Here’s the complete schedule: August 3: Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers August 4: Pat Stoltey August 5: Jungle Red August 8: Inkspot August 9: The Author Biz August 10: Hey, There’s a Dead Guy in the Living Room August 11: Women’s Fiction Writers blog August 12: Wicked Cozy Authors August 13: Writer Unboxed August 16: SleuthSayers …Read More

Category: Books and Authors

This Week’s Best of the Best (and Other Stuff)

June 29, 2016 By: Patricia

I have a couple of blog post recommendations for you. First is this humor post from Jenny Sundstedt, a local author and active member of Northern Colorado Writers. The post is on the Hot Chocolate Press website’s blog. Jenny is the co-author with Kerrie Flanagan of Write Away: A Year of Musing and Motivation for …Read More

Category: Books and Authors, The Writing Life

A June Lineup of Guest Authors from Northern Colorado

June 1, 2016 By: Patricia

I will be featuring posts from nine Northern Colorado authors during the month of June. Their interests and works range from poetry to nonfiction to fiction. Tomorrow my guest is Dean K. Miller, haiku writer extraordinaire. He also writes other types of poetry, inspirational articles, and more. I never considered writing haiku until Dean offered …Read More

Category: Books and Authors, Guest Blogger

Meet Patricia

I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. Read More…

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