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Looking Out the Window: Renee Blare Talks About Her New Book, Through Raging Waters. Gives Away An E-book

A Warm Welcome to Renee Blare                                               The Tetons                                                           Renee talks passionately about her beloved Wyoming, where she set Through Raging Waters. She’ll give away an e-book of that novel. To enter to win leave a comment and an e-mail address below. Wyoming Wonderland Many who know me would tell you that I love my home. From the ongoing saga of the first National Park to my husband fishing at one of our high mountain lakes, I post about my beautiful state on Facebook daily. I share pictures of my Wind River Mountains, Snowy Range, and Wyoming Black Hills. (Black Hills below) This is God’s country. The Big Horn Mountains is where I had my honeymoon as well as Thermopolis, the largest single hot springs in the world. I love to fish and hunt these hills. Wyoming is like no other place on earth, at least to me. And it’s on fire. Over 60,000 acres of land is currently burn

Looking Out the Window: Leap of Faith

On Good Friday when our daughter, Laurie, called to tell us to look for shelter at a Cracker Barrel, the middle Tennessee sky looked overcast, but not threatening. Within minutes after we hung up large pellets of ice that sounded like rocks hitting a tin roof pounded our gray Avalon. But there was no Cracker Barrel in sight, so we stopped under a bridge behind several other cars and a van. My husband, Rick, got out his laptop and pulled up a map that showed massive splotches of red and yellow all around the area where we were parked. While I stared at the grass flattened by strong wind an eighteen wheeler with its trailer waving passed by; after it, an ambulance with its siren blaring. After the hail stopped I said, “Rick we have to move to a safer place.” “Where?” Staring at the computer, I noticed a tiny sliver of green, indicating rain between one of the storm markings. Almost simultaneously, the sky cleared to a drizzle and the grass returned to its normal position. “The Cracker Ba