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Hi, I'm Martha.
This blog chronicles the light, easy and delicious recipes, tips, and hints that help me balance my love of food and desire to be happy, healthy and slim.
I've LOVED food for as long as I can remember! And I've struggled with my weight for almost as long.
Thanks to Weight Watchers I was able to lose 30 pounds. (For more on my journey to becoming a WW Lifetime member.) Learning to cook light and tasty recipes that satisfy my cravings has been integral to keeping the weight off.
I believe cooking for yourself is key to losing weight and love the quote, "Minutes in the kitchen can save you hours on in the gym."
I love trying new recipes and remaking the simple comfort foods of my childhood to be lighter and healthier. I find myself more focused on keeping things easy and effortless in the kitchen and in my life with each passing year. I guess you could say I'm into simple wholesome home cooking.
In October 2013 I set out to use my slow cooker every day for a year to make Weight Watchers friendly crock pot recipes. And though I lost momentum at the halfway mark, I still continue to use my slow cooker several days a week.
When I'm not experimenting in the kitchen, I share my other passion as a Private Yoga Instructor.
In my free time I love to relax with family and friends, take long walks with my golden 'Francie,' read and hang out on my yoga mat.
I believe that the key to living happy, healthy and slim is all about balance and moderation and committing to taking care of yourself. When you take better care of yourself, everyone around you benefits
Please feel free to re-post my content on your blog/website/facebook/pinterest etc. Just credit me with a link back to Simple Nourished Living and send me a link when you put it up. Thanks!
Disclaimer/Please Note: I began including nutritional information and Weight Watchers POINTS PLUS values on my recipes in September 2011. I'm a longtime Weight Watchers Lifetime Member who believes strongly in their message that it's not about dieting; its about embracing a healthy lifestyle. I love that fruits and vegetables are now zero PointsPlus foods on the new PointsPlus program. But this site is not affiliated with Weight Watchers in any way. What I write here is about my personal experience on the plan. The views expressed are my own and do not reflect the views of Weight Watchers.
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So my whole team is positive, we have 3x more kills, and we lose. Nobody had positive kills on their team, we ace them all the time, and every time we push, they lure into base turret. So, we can't push.
Riot, fauk you and your broken comeback and map.
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your fault
How is that MY fault? When some kid playing Singed, is abusing a bug? You sir, are an idiot.
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could have built armor and tanked towers. i do it all the time and BD on TT in ranked
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Pretty much what Jack of Blades said. You either don't push inhibs and get the farm advantage to easily push their base in, or you each build armor and 3 man zerg their Nexus turret. Stay far away from their fountain as well, for obvious reasons.
Its not too hard to organize a 3 man flash to hit their Nexus, or even a 2 man flash and then the 3rd person walking in while they are distracted with you. Or you can just not take inhibs, that works well too.
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» Matt Sewell for Barbour SS15
I worked with Barbour on their 2015 Spring Summer womenswear range, the fruits of which can be seen here
Will do a much bigger post about this very soon. But you must check out the cashmere goldfinch ladies!
I worked with Barbour on their 2015 Spring Summer womenswear range, the fruits of which can be seen here
Will do a much bigger post about this very soon. But you must check out the cashmere goldfinch ladies!
I shall be doing a talk all about my passion for birds and how it has affected my career at the ever great Glug in Brighton hosted by my friends Crushed Creative.
Friday the 13th next month At The Sallis Benney Theatre… Looks ace!
More info on the Brighton Starling
Make washing up a joy with my exclusive 2014 tea towel featuring all your favourite garden birds.
Never miss that all important out of the kitchen window twitch with this screenprinted cotton towel.
Very limited edition for Christmas 2014
50 x 70cm
You wash i'll dry!
Its back!
For a very limited time only, i will be painting any small bird for you for £80 including P&P.
So tits, finches, bunting, thrushes, swallows, warblers only.
No owls, crows, birds of prey, wagtails, wildfowl or any big birds in general!
All paintings will be 20cm x 20cm on lovely thick Arches watercolour paper..
Let me know what bird you want via email or in the paypal comments section when you order.
Heres a few examples from the last time to whet your whistling warbler!
My new book Owls is now out and available to buy in all good book shops!
Featuring loads of owls from around the world and a great foreword by British Sea Power's Martin Noble
Will be posting some of up here soon but in the meantime head to my shop if you'd like a signed and drawn in copy.
Comes with a barn owl drawn in, please let me know if you'd like it dedicated to anybody or if you want a particular owl drawn in there.
Hope you like it!
The wait is finally over as my mighty collaboration with the mega Mini Moderns is finally upon us and in my shop right now.
Our British made wallpaper, printed with water-based ink on substainbly sourced paper in 5 different colour way for your delectation!
Feathers' is the third wallpaper design in the Mini Moderns 'Hinterland' collection. It marks a repeat collaboration between Mini Moderns and artist, Matt Sewell. The design is based on Matt's feather watercolours, which feature in the design for the end papers of his book 'Our Songbirds'. The individual feathers each relate to the birds featured in the book. The wallpaper design fits perfectly with the spirit of the 'Hinterland' collection, which takes inspiration from the nature reserve of Dungeness, on the South Kent coast.
Available now here
My forthcoming book Owls on Ebury Press (released 13th November) is now available for preorder on Amazon for only £7!
I was asked by the London based urban honeyists Barnes & Webb to take part in their Save The Bees Campaign and fundraiser.
I painted this "Bee eater on a diet", an original watercolour on thick a4 paper.
More info below on when and how it is available.
Coinciding with the London honey harvest, Barnes & Webb invite you to the launch event for Save the Bees – an exhibition and auction of artwork celebrating the Honey Bee.
The private view and auction is on Thursday 18th of September from 7-11pm at the Forge & Co Gallery, 154 – 158 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6HU. Please rsvp@barnesandwebb to secure your place on the guest list.
Over 30 artists and illustrators have created unique artworks to be auctioned on the opening night. All money raised will fund our new not-for-profit Save the Bees campaign activities.
Come to the party, raise a glass, dance a lot, buy some art, and go home smiling. Who knew saving bees could be this fun? Can't wait to see you there!
Artists include: Jessica Albarn, Sanna Annukka, Luke Best, Jody Barton, Kyle Bean, Rose Blake, Tom Ashton-Booth, Anthony Burrill, Miles Donovan, Stanley Donwood, Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao, Stevie Gee, Robert F Hunter, Hvass & Hannibal, Adrian Johnson, Jean Jullien, Angie Lewin, Katharine McEwen, Chrissie MacDonald, Essy May, Clare Melinsky, Rop Van Mierlo, Edward Carvalho Monaghan, Al Murphy, Pâté, Jitesh Patel, Katie Scott, Matt Sewell, Amy Shelton, Charlie Whinney, Kristjana S Williams & Spencer Wilson.
DJ's on the night include Mudd (Claremont 56) and Anthony Burrill (Space, Ibiza).
The exhibition continues from 19th – 21st September.
Friday 19th 11am – 6pm
Saturday 20th 11am – 6pm
Sunday 21st 11am – 3pm
The amazing Mini Moderns have took over the fantastic South Bank Centre Shop with their Remix 2 extravaganza featuring a selection of their work remixed by some of the best artist and designers around. Its running for the whole of September and part of London Design Week.
It was also a great chance to unveil a project we have been working together on…. Our "Feathers" wallpaper, part of the forthcoming Mini Moderns Hinterland Collection. More info soon!
I was asked to take part in Nook in Stoke Newington's celebration of The Great Outdoors for the Icon Design Trail for this years London Design Week.
I was inspired from a recent ramble in The Peak District where my best spot was a wheatear that alighted on different blackberry-pooh-stained stones.
He was a cracker!
Limited edition of six, A3 giclée print, signed and dated.
My third book Our Woodland Birds was released earlier this year in June and i now have it for sale in my shop.
As ever i will write and draw whatever you like in there.
Britain has some of the most beautiful woodland in the world, with some of the most beautiful inhabitants. All year round, the trees in forests, copses and wastelands offer our feathered friends food, shelter and a place to congregate and show-off.
Now, in this beautiful follow-up to Our Garden Birds and Our Songbirds, street artist Matt Sewell captures Britain's unique woodland life with his charming and distinctive illustrations. Featuring an array of enchanting scenes, from bramble-picking Blue Tits and a flight of Finches to a parliament of young Tawny Owls, Matt's quirky, pop-art watercolours and whimsical descriptions express the individual characters of our woodland birds as never before. A delightful gift, this book will appeal to bird-watching enthusiasts, children, adults and art and design fans alike.
End papers!!!
I designed and illustrated this lovely book of funny and thoughtful rhymes by Steve Matthews on Picklescott Press.
For more info visit Tigers & Teas and follow the tiger here
If Tiger's teas don't come with peas, what on earth DO they come with? Look inside to find the answer to this and much more besides. Complemented by Matt Sewell's charming illustrations, these thoughtful rhymes by Steve Matthews are suitable for all ages. And by the way, Tiger doesn't eat broccoli either…..
I was invited to the beautiful RSPB reserve in Minsmere Suffolk to appear for the last weeks 2014 series of the BBC's Springwatch Unsprung. I chatted birds, painted them and drew them. Spotted adders, bitterns, marsh harriers, Savi's warblers and the amazing bearded tits. So to celebrate i painted a huge one on a bird hide.
Here we have a selection of four Passerine Cups for my Matt Sewell's Birds label – Bluetit, bullfinch, goldfinch and Great tit.
All 100% made and hand decorated in The Potteries – Staffordshire.
Bone china, screen printed and hand painted beaks/handles
Available individually or as a set of 4
In my shop soon
Having recently completed the S4CS Creative Business course I exhibited at their fantastic Makegood Festival in central London. Unveiled my brand new cups that will be on sale very soon. They went down a bomb – 100% British – Made, screenprinted and hand painted in Stoke On Trent.
Long live The Potteries!
Big thanks to Hiten, Mediea and the team, Dan Tickner and everybody who stopped by to say hi
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Along with roads, public libraries and stinging nettles, the Pheasant was one of many wonderful things that the Romans brought to Britain. So don't listen to the nonsense put forward by certain members of society who claim that the Pheasant was introduced only for sport – he has been dashing from the undergrowth and over roads long before the gun was even invented. Bottle green and glorious golden chestnut, with a long tail that streaks like a comet, the Pheasant is a work of celestial beauty.
Taken from my forthcoming book Our Woodland Birds (EBury Press) and taken from my regular feature on Caught By The River
I will be signing copies of my new book Our Woodland Birds at The Social on Wednesday 26th from 6 – 9pm
Also afterwards downstair we are running a Crushing Glow night where myself Neasden Control Centre and Stuart Black Maps will be playing esoteric and beautiful music till midnight.
Ten years ago i head off on my first of many trips to Belfast for an art project. I was out to paint a skip that would later be placed out side of the City Hall and have somebody cook a seagull in it and somebody play a saw like a violin. Weird. Keeping it traditional i was picked up from the airport and took to a very decent boozer. We sat in the window and i looked at the fire damaged building opposite and thought what an amazing spot to paint… Roll on ten years and i'm up a cherry picker painting that very wall.
Massive thanks to Adam Turkington who went beyond the call of duty, The Cathedral Quarter Trust, The John Hewitt Bar, KVLR and Simon Mills who took these photos
Its a big day in London on Saturday May 24th… First up i will be at Rough Trade East in Truman Brewery to officially launch the record. We have held back a number of the limited edition prints especially so i will be doing a signing, spinning some records and the amazing, A Crushing Glow featured St Just Vigilantes will be playing live. Lots more info here.
Then we will be jumping on the Central Line and pitching up at The Social for A Crushing Glow Party. Where I will be flexing my DJ muscles with CTR head-honcho JK and guests.
Come on down!
PS. Thanks to Supernaut for the type
The lovely Lauren Laverne has made my A Crushing Glow LP her Comp Of The Week on her BBC 6music morning show. She will be playing tracks from it throughout her shows so tune in for the lushness and catch up here. Last few copies with the prints available at Caroline True Records, they've gone quick.
The ladies of the BBC are doing me proud – Big thanks to Georgia Ruth who also featured the album on her Radio Cymru show.
Go and check out her spellbinding music, welsh language and celestial harps.
I have had the luck and the audacity to work on some amazing projects over the years, i work hard, pay my dues and say my thanks to to universe whenever i can. But none can quite beat being asked to compile and design your own double LP gatefold vinyl record. Wow! CTR headhoncho JK approach me about this a few moons ago and my jaw hit my desk. WOW! So here it is after months of work and frenzied emails with forgotten German record labels I am proud to reveal – A Crushing Glow compile by Matt Sewell
The first 100 come with a limited 4 colour signed & dated risograph print that features a detail form the gatefold artwork.
Available to preorder from Caroline True Records here
Only a few other stockist have the prints, they are my good friends Caught by the River
and the best record shop in the world Rough Trade East
The music held within the platters is all crushingly beautiful, mesemeric and sincere. Some songs have been with me for a long time whilst others have fluttered into my life more recently. Some are rare and many are impossible to find on vinyl but i do hope you find them as special as i do.
Full tracklist and promo mix and more info over at CTR's website here
My maths teacher used to ask me how I would tell jokes with no teeth. Likewise with this chap, how's he going to sing with crossed chops? Not very well, is the answer on both occasions.
The Crossbill is a Scandinavian Alpine Finch, a winter visitor that has taken up residency in the arboreal beauty spots of Scotland and northern England. His beak is designed like a twisty corkscrew for popping pine kernels and not for serenading the green lady Crossbills, so his vocal repertoire is restricted to an occasional 'chup-chup'. He's got the scarlet jacket and the multipurpose beak, but you can't have it all.
From Caught By The River and from my book Our Songbirds
My forthcoming new book – Our Woodland Birds out in June on Ebury Press, featuring a foreword by the one and only Edwyn Collins.
Britain has some of the most beautiful woodland in the world, with some of the most beautiful inhabitants. All year round, the trees in forests, copses and wastelands offer our feathered friends food, shelter and a place to congregate and show-off. Now, in this beautiful follow-up to Our Garden Birds and Our Songbirds, street artist Matt Sewell captures Britain's unique woodland life with his charming and distinctive illustrations. Featuring an array of enchanting scenes, from bramble picking Blue Tits, to a flight of Finches, to a parliament of young Tawny Owls, Matt's quirky, pop-art watercolours and whimsical descriptions express the individual characters of our woodland birds as never before. A delightful gift, this book will appeal to bird-watching enthusiasts, children, adults and art and design fans alike.
Super excited about this, a lot of hard work went into it and it is lush!
Available to preorder everywhere and at amazon here
Me and Richt spruced up The Dreamscape Community Gardens in the Piccadilly Basin in Manchester's Northern Quarter.
He did the flora and fauna i did the animals and birds.
Read a bit more about it here if you like
Photos kindly stolen from the Polkadot-Pink blog by J Davis
To see the whole thing have a look here
Thanks to Richt for the joiner
Massive thanks to Tash, Tommy and The Outhouse Project.
I got invited up to Manchester to take part in Outhouse Project in Stevenson Square. I was gonna paint an owl in honour of the parliament of owls i painted just over the road on the shutters of The Koffee Pot many moons ago. But i kept it fresh and painted a load of finches and sparrows in the cold sunshine.
Big thanks to Tash, Ben and the Fred Aldous Crew
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Posted May 14, 2011
Masterfully drawn by great word artist Susan Meissner, A Sound Among the Trees is an intriguing and complex story, delving into relationships and traditions. I thoroughly enjoyed the journey as Marielle, while trying to unravel the mystery of Holly Oak, learned rumors can become tradition and believed as truth. Novel Journey and I give A Sound Among the Trees a high recommendation. An enchanting summer read.
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Posted February 25, 2014
I loved this book, my first by author Susan Meissner. I must admit that at first I couldn't get into the story. Adelaide and her musings about hauntings and such made me think the book was going to be different than it turned out to be. I'm so glad I persevered until Adelaide, Marielle, Caroline and Susannah pulled at my heartstrings.
This book has so many messages to carry. It speaks of young love, first love, redeeming love, unfailing love, saving love. It also speaks of memories, and truth, and how one can color the other. Memories can be faulty, colored by emotion or generations of hearsay.
I don't want to say more about the story than what you can read in the synopsis, but I urge you to read this book. I loved the peek into the Civil War as well, and from a different perspective than usual.
Posted March 5, 2013
This book is a beautiful example of excellent writing and great storyline. Set in the new South, remembering the old South, it is a book to capture interest and spellbind you for hours.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted March 2, 2013
This book was heart breaking and captivating. Susan Meissner has a way of drawing out your emotions and making you feel the regret and loss of her characters. I can't think of another author that places me so firmly in the choices and lives of the characters as to feel like I am suffering the same.
This book is not a beach read, it is for someone who really wants to get deep into both the past and present. I will probably still be thinking about this story tomorrow and the next as I contemplate the choices made and how they are mirrored in my own life.
Note: After reading some other reviews where the "ghost" element was questioned, stating that in the Bible Saul was rebuked for speaking to ghost, I will give this allowance. At first, I agreed with this. I was confused at the tale of ghosts and why they were used. Once I had finished it however, I saw that the point was to let our ghosts (our skeletons in the closest) die. I do not want to give anything away but ask that you read to the end before making a decision about the author's and publisher's reasons for publishing this book.
Posted February 8, 2013
A Sound Among the Trees by Susan Meissner
As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn't believe that Susannah's ghost haunts the antebellum mansion looking for a pardon, but rather that the house itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past.
When Marielle Bishop marries into the family and is transplanted from the arid west to her husband's home, she is soon led to believe that the house she's just settled into brings misfortune to the women who live there.
With Adelaide's richly peppered superstitions and deep family roots at stake, Marielle must sort out the truth about Susannah Page and Holly Oak---and make peace with the sacrifices she has made for love.
I thought this to be a fairly intriguing read. One that kept me interested from beginning to end and scarcely had any boring parts. It was well written and the imagery quite colorful. I could very nearly imagine myself there at Holly Oak, in the parlor or the garden. The author had a nice way of describing the scenery.
The part I liked the best and found myself most swept up in was the letters Susannah wrote to her cousin. It was most intriguing learning of her life and the struggles she, her aunt, mother and grandmother faced amidst the terrors of war. All in all it was an enjoyable read, though it was supposed to be a Christian book yet it scarcely even mentioned God or brought out that the Characters were Christians and even had some language in it. But still a very interesting book and one that I would recommend to others.
I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for this honest review.
Posted January 30, 2013
I have a love hate relationship with this book. I kept waiting for it to get good. After a while, it finally did. The problem is, it took way too long.
It started off with a wedding reception thrown for Marielle and Carson in the garden at Holly Oak. Carson is not actually blood family, he was married to Adelaide's late granddaughter. Oddly enough, Marielle agrees to live at Holly Oak, with her new husband, in his first wife's family home. Right out of the gate, she is warned of ghosts and curses. The more she's in the house, the more she starts to question things and sets out to see if there is indeed, anything to worry about.
Adelaide was my favorite. She is pushing ninety years old and has lived her entire life at Holly Oak. I love, love, loved her personality. She's a real straight shooter. She doesn't hold back. I love the bits of sarcasm she puts out. I can almost see the expression on her face and the look in her eyes. Her great-grandmother, Susannah, is the ghost supposedly haunting Holly Oak. It was rumored that she helped Union soldiers during the war between the states and because she is so unsettled by being a traitor to the Confederacy, she stays at Holly Oak unable to find peace and gives her misery to every woman who lives there. And oh boy, did the women of Holly Oak have it rough. So much loss in that house. The question is, is it a ghost, a curse, the house, or something else entirely that's at the root of it all?
The answer to that question is in the letters written by Susannah to her cousin during the war. This is where the book got really good for me. I honestly could have done without all the other stuff and read an entire book of just the letters. They really take you back to a time of war and destruction. The horror the women faced while the men were away, the pain, the choices they we forced to make, all of it. When it was over, I found myself looking at pictures of Fredericksburg just to get a visual of the town they lived in. I can just imagine it. Reading the letters, I can see the blood, I can see the destruction, I can see the fear. That's what I loved about this book.
Did I like the book? Yes
Did I love the book? No
Would I recommend the book? Yes
Overall Rating: Good
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Posted January 14, 2013
I enjoyed this book immensely since I am kind of a Civil War buff. The female characters were well developed even if they were not here half the book. The house I could see with my minds eye and was gorgeously described, cannonball and all. The twist at the end will leave you reading until the complete end. It is an amazing book that will leave you spellbound.
I recommend this book to Historical fiction lovers and Young women mainly, men I suppose could read it but it is kind of girly.
Posted September 9, 2012
When Marielle married Carson, she knew he had been married before. For the sake of his children, she agreed to live in his first wife's family home with Sara's aging grandmother. She knew she might have to contend with Carson's memories of Sara, but she never dreamed she might be dealing with a Civil War-era ghost.
Susan Meissner's novel is a gripping read, especially for anyone interested in the Civil War. The chapters dealing with Susannah and her involvement with both the Union and the Confederate soldiers really held my interest. Her historic details were correct, which adds realism to the story. Also, for anyone who has ever felt that they were overwhelmed by the "ghosts" of past relationships, this is a must read.
5 stars
Posted September 4, 2012
A story that keeps you reading for hours. I love a story that grips you and holds you.
Yet an ending not expected. A healing, a release or a new look at life however you want to see it.
A history of a family during the Civil War weaved around a house. How life choices sometimes are made for reasons not expected. Yet good can come out of it. As the story of Susannah and her marriage to Lt. Page unfold, strenth and weaknessed shape her.
A story of ghosts, mental illness, war, love and survival.
To quote from the readers guide, "A ghost story without a ghost." Sometimes a person gets stuck in life and doesn't see the truth.
Posted August 6, 2012
A Sound Among the Trees by Susan Meissner is a story about a historic house and the family that has lived there for generations. The women of Holly Oak feel as if they've been cursed by the actions of it's past tenets. Susannah Page is believed to have been a Civil War spy for the North. Everyone thinks she haunts the house.
Marielle is the newest women to enter into the mix. She recently married Susannah's great-granddaughter Adelaide's grandson-inlaw Carson. Carson's first wife was Adelaide's granddaughter. But he still lives in the house at Holly Oak for the sake of the two children. It's their only memory they still have of their mother Sara.
This is a historic fiction novel. It has southern charm. It has mystery. It has emotion. All of which I enjoyed.
Until I got to page 200. You can read (as Marielle is reading) all of Susannah Page's letters to her cousin. All 100 pages of them. Now this may, or may not, hinder your interest. I wasn't all that thrilled to read 100 pages of Susannah Page's daily activities. The purpose of the letters was to set the record straight as to what happened at Holly Oak and all this cursed business. But I'd have rather read five to ten pages of her letters.
So I was all in at the beginning. The pace lost me in the middle. And then the book came to a moderate end. The characters and writing are good. I guess, I was just looking for more of a mystery/thriller. But it's geared more toward a light-heated religious theme.
Posted July 28, 2012
The young bride that moves into her husband's first wife home is first scared that there a ghost in the house. She not understand what it was doing to the people inside the home or what the people inside the house was doing to the family.
A mystery unfolds itself though Marielle. Caroline come home to help explain what was going on and what was happening Carson and her mother. Her mother does not know what going but think the house is stuck. Things start to clear up about Susannah Page in letters when Caroline less her in on what the truth is and what is happening.
I do not want to give away how it ends or any of the secret the books has to offer. Though I will tell you it tell you about the part of the Civil War and the Battle of Fredericksburg. It tell about romance and in love. But I will let you decide If you want to pick it up and want to read. Just because I like to read about Civil War a bit does not mean you would not to so you may decide that you want so I will let you decide for yourself. Now if I were asked I recommend this book for sure.
Posted July 21, 2012
I was given the opportunity to review the book A Sound Among the Trees by Susan Meissner, however all opinions are my own.
The back of the book states "A House Shrouded in Time. A Line of Women With a Heritage of Loss.". The story is about an old house that was in the same family for generations. There is also a lot of history involved as well. One of the previous ancestors was said to be a civil war spy. In being such, she was a traitor to her Virginian home. The Matriarch and her son in law, Carson, live in the house with his 2 children. There is a rumor that the house is haunted, but when Carson's new wife, Marielle, moves in she is determined to find out the truth. She soon learns that there is more to the story when she finds a journal, and a long lost relative returns with hidden information.
Marielle makes friends with her new surroundings, but can not quite make peace with them. Then through her new friend she finds some interesting paperwork. I could not put the book down until I read all of the paperwork. It was a really good book and was hard to put down. It was also historical, and had a very interesting love story as .
I also enjoyed seeing the generations of women and how the heritage affected them.
Posted April 10, 2012
First of all, let me say that this novel is not the type of book I normally read....I am somewhat of a wuss and even the thought of ghosts or haunted houses creeps me out enough that I want to hide under my covers and turn the TV on so loud that it would surely wake the neighbors.
However! I was quite pleased with Susan Meissner's *A Sound Among the Trees* and found myself not wanting to put it down!
Ever since I was a young girl, I have always had a slight fascination with the Civil War due to my father's extreme obsession with it. At one point, I had considered paying for him to fly out to Oregon where they have an annual paintball tournament reenacting the war....it would have been the gift to top all gifts! However, I was a broke college kid at the time and couldn't conjure up the money for this fabulous idea. Boo.
To answer your question as to what this has to do with this book, *A Sound Among the Trees* is a story that leaps through time and allows the reader to live through the eyes of different women living in a house that survived the tragic Civil War and the love that was lost and the trials that are faced even in present time.
I fell in love with Adelaide, the matriarch of Holly Oak (the house in question) and felt like she would be someone I would like to have tea with in her southern home as she spoke in her rich accent and told stories of southern life 'back in the day.' Yes, Adelaide was my favorite character but Meissner peppered the entire story with real like and lively characters that added to the enjoyment of the story.
The story in general was pretty good and with great suspense and climax at times, even if it did seem to fall short occasionally throughout. All in all, with the entirety of the story, I was pleased and would actually enjoy looking into more of Meissner's writing.
If you enjoy a story that has a historical element within it and good character development and suspense, I suggest you give this novel a try.
I was glad I did.
Posted January 31, 2012
The story begins with Marielle who is recently married and settles into Holly Oaks with her new husband. Holly Oaks is not just any house... it's a Civil War mansion where her husband lived with his now deceased wife, Sarah. Adelaide, Sarah's grandmother still lives at Holly Oaks. Marielle quickly discovers that the women of Holly Oaks have suffered many misfortunes. It seems that the house may be haunted by the ghost of Susanna Page, who was rumored to be a Civil War spy, a traitor to her Virginian roots. When Marielle discovers hidden letters which were written during the Civil war, the mystery begins to unfold. About a third of the book consists of the letters written by young Susannah Page to her cousin in Maine. Being a fan of historical fiction, I couldn't put the book down once I got to this part. The letters paint a picture of life during the war and the sacrifices made by each side. Throughout the letters a beautiful love story grows. This is not a traditional love story. Instead it will surprise you with many unforeseen turns. I would have been completely satisfied to read an entire book full of these letters. I much preferred this section to the modern day beginning of the book. The stores, past and present, come together beautifully in the book's final chapters. I would give this book 4 out of 5 stars. Disclosure: I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted January 25, 2012
Susannah Page is rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, labeled a traitor to Virginians and the South.
In present day she is known as a ghost searching for redemption of her pas now haunting her home Holly Oak Mansion. Her great grandaughter does not believe Susannah is haunting the mansion. She actually believes it is the house that holds a grudge against the past and is taking it out on the women of Holly Oak Mansion.
Now the mansion has a new resident Marielle Bishop and she soon learns about the haunting of the Holly Oak. She is not sure what to believe and tries to uncover the truth.
I really got into all the history of Holly Oak Mansion and the residents of the mansion past and present.
The damage the Civil War had on the Virginians and the fortitude of the South to rebuild their lives and their homes was heartbreaking knowing what they all went through. The hardship of the slaves in the face of their freedom and rebirth of life must have been exalting.
How could anyone not feel as if their are ghost and hauntings after so many lives and homes were lost in that war.
I highly recommend this book.
I rate this book a 5 out of 5.
I received a copy of this book from WaterBrook Multnomah/Blogging for Books. In no way was I compensated for this review it is my own opinion.
Posted January 21, 2012
This beautifully lyric book travels seamlessly between the present day and the civil war era while telling the stories of the antebellum mansion Holly Oak and her inhabitants.
First of all, I can't get over how unbelievably lovely this novel was. I'm a big fan of writers who use tons of descriptives and imagery to make people and places come alive…and Susan Meissner does that wonderfully in A Sound Among the Trees. From the first page I felt as if I was there in that Sunlit Virginia garden and I couldn't tear myself away.
Sometimes a novel that flips back and forth between past and present can be hard to appreciate…one either gets lost somewhere in between or at best feels as if the continuity of the stories is compromised. That was not the case with this book. Holly Oak herself acts as an anchor between the two time periods…between the two stories and in essence…almost becomes one of the characters herself.
As I was introduced to the inhabitants of the present and then slowly to the civil war era inhabitants I became deeply invested in all of their lives. I needed to know how the events of the past had transformed Holly Oak and how those events managed to still have such a strong hold over it's current occupants. I needed to know if redemption could be found. I needed to know if it was actually even necessary in the first place. And most of all…. I needed to know…if the bogeyman was real.
And I'll let you in on a little something…the bogeyman…he is indeed quite real.
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Posted January 19, 2012
The delicious brooding quality of Susan Meissner's A Sound Among the Trees reminds me of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. Marielle, like the narrator of Rebecca, is a new bride who comes to live in her predecessor's ancient family home. And like Maximilian de Winter, Marielle's husband Carson seems oblivious to the emotional toll she pays to live there in his dead wife's shadow.
Adelaide, Carson's nearly ninety-year-old grandmother-in-law, although no Mrs. Danvers, is a bit cold and distant. She has suffered greatly. Her teenage daughter Caroline had run away to a life of drugs, alcohol and sex, returning only once to give her infant daughter into her care. And now that granddaughter is dead and Carson has brought Marielle to replace her. Adelaide believes that a "slow waltz of destiny" falls on "all women born to Holly Oak" to suffer and do penance for the sins of its earlier daughter Susannah, who allegedly betrayed her family and the Confederacy. Adelaide labors at sewing Confederate uniforms for modern day Civil War re-enactors. She says it's because "some things are worth remembering" but it seems to be her personal penance too.
The War Between the States continues to cast its shadow over Holly Oak. The house withstood the Battle of Fredericksburg, but still bears a war wound; a cannonball is lodged in its side. Adelaide's friends, the "Blue-Haired Old Ladies, believe Susannah haunts Holly Oak. Adelaide believes it has a soul, like a "sentient being." Indeed, Holly Oak, echoing with violent memories, is as much a character in the story as Manderley is in Rebecca.
But when Adelaide's prodigal daughter Caroline returns home, whole and healthy, having found redemption among ministering nuns, Adelaide and Marielle discover the truth about Holly Oak. It becomes, finally, what a house is meant to be, "a place of safety and refuge."
The e-book was provided to me by the Multnomah Group. I have given this my fair review.
Posted January 13, 2012
My Synopsis: Marielle is newly married to widower Carson Bishop. They decide together that it's best for Carson's children to stay in Holly Oak house in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with his deceased wife's mother, Adelaide - and the house has been in Adelaide's family for several generations. Not too long after arriving at Holly Oak, Marielle is told that the house is haunted by Susannah Page - Adelaide's grandmother. It is believed that Susannah was a spy for the Union in Confederate territory during the War Between the States, and now she haunts the house seeking atonement for her sins. Marielle soon gets wrapped up in the ghost story. It isn't until she discovers Susannah's old letters to her cousin that Marielle learns the truth about her husband's first wife's great-great grandmother.
My Reaction: DIFFICULT TO PUT DOWN!!! I swear this is the fastest I have read through a book in the past year or more.
At first, I was skeptical about this book based on other reviews of this book. Mostly because it was about a "haunted" house and it's Christian fiction - two things I never thought would mix. But the author, Susan Meissner, combined the two wonderfully! I loved how the Civil War story was woven through the first part of the book. Then, in Part Four, we get the complete story of the Civil War through the letters from Susannah written to her cousin, Eleanor in Maine. Most of the letters were never sent due to the mail not being delivered from Union to Confederate and vice-versa. The letters that were sent to Eleanor were later returned to Susannah after Eleanor's death to complete the story. They read more like a journal than letters.
If you like Civil-War era novels, or just historical fiction, this might be the story for you. But most of this story centers around Marielle in modern times and her desire to know more about Holly Oak's ghost.
Posted December 15, 2011
Adelaide has lived at Holly Oak all her life, about 87 years. She raise her daughter Caroline there and also Caroline¿s daughter Sarah, when Sarah married Carson they lived with Adelaide also. Then Sarah died and after four years of mourning her loss Carson married Marielle; his new wife, lives at Holly Oak with not Adelaide but also Sarah and Carson¿s children, isn¿t that a difficult situation? Then to top it off it is said that Holly Oak is haunted by Susannah Paige¿s spirit, who was rumored to be a union spy during the civil war. What really happened with Susannah? What will happen with Marielle?
At first I have to admit I was not so interested in the book, not until after the first 50 pages was I actually captivated by the story and its characters. The story was amazing yet tragic; the reader learns of Susannah Paige and what she suffered during her long tragic life, it is actually very emotional. The reader also learns about the other characters though and the events that take place in their lives, it really is a story of loss and pain. Still I think Meissner did an exceptional job bringing this type of story to life, I rate it 4.5 stars.
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The Dakshina Kannada Cricket Association's proposal to construct an international cricket stadium here appears to have been made without a concrete plan.
The association laid the foundation stone on 4.5 acres of land at Bangara Kuloor on Wednesday and projected the move as the first step towards the construction of a cricket stadium of international standards. Its members hope that, like the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore, this stadium too would have a clubhouse, gymnasiums, badminton and tennis courts as well as a bar and restaurant.
But to translate this plan into reality, the association needs a much larger area, and there is no clarity where the remaining land will come from.
By the projection of the association's office-bearers who addressed a press conference here on Thursday, a complete stadium will require at least 18 acres. They said the 4.5 acres given to them by the Sports and Youth Affairs Department will form the core of the stadium. The surrounding land will be acquired in stages to form a contiguous holding of around 18 acres.
But acquisition of surrounding land appears to be a knotty issue. President of the DKCA Srikanth Rai said that the association was "absolutely sure" of getting an additional six acres of land.
About half of these six acres is entangled in litigation, and local residents are threatening to oppose the acquisition. However, Mr. Rai said that the district administration had promised to help the association in resolving this issue.
Even if the association manages to acquire all the 11.5 acres, it will be short of seven acres. The association plans to acquire this land from private owners in the vicinity, which is likely to pose even bigger problems.
The seven acres of land are held by nearly 30 families, who are reportedly unwilling to part with it.
When the area was visited after the press conference, it was found that a majority of the landowners there are against acquisition because of either sentimental or economic reasons.
B.K. Ramu (60), a resident, said that the land identified for acquisition also houses a 200-year-old temple of Kodadabbu Daiva. He said that his family was one of its caretakers, which had over 3,000 people from Bangara Kuloor and neighbouring areas of Kottara, Panjimagoaru, Padukodi and Maladi as devotees. His son Prasad said that the residents of the area had submitted a memorandum to the district administration expressing their opposition.
Others such as Jayashree (45) and Avid D'Souza said that they were agriculturists and parting with the land would rob them off their livelihood. All the residents said that they were unwilling to part with their land even for a very good compensation package.


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Choosing The Right Gray Paint Color…
We usually feel pretty confident in our ability to pick a paint color. But something about choosing the perfect gray color for two major living areas in our house made me extra nervous (we're going to use the same color in the future dining room, main hallway, and living room for some nice continuity). Sherry had a field day ribbing me about my paint paralysis. I was literally second-guessing every swatch we looked at. "Sure, I like it… no I don't, I hate it." Yeah, that was me.
I blame my neurosis on having selected a hideous gray tone to paint my middle school bedroom (I picked it because I liked the name – Cannonball or Cannon Smoke or something else that sounded like blowing stuff up). In retrospect it was too dark, cold, and prison-like. Fortunately I warmed it up with a bright red Looney Tunes rug and Tasmanian Devil throw pillows (don't be jealous). But somehow I don't think that's an acceptable solution this time around.
So I convinced Sherry (who was a lot less gun-shy than I was, she kept saying "let's just pick one and DO IT!") that we should buy paint testers and try out a few colors before committing. She recommends this option all the time to nervous-about-painting readers, so it wasn't too hard to convince her that we should give it a whirl at least once. So we narrowed it down to our top three similar-but-different-enough-to-help-us-make-a-decision contenders:
They are, from left to right: Collingwood, Grey Owl, and Moonshine (all Benjamin Moore colors mixed in Olympic Premium No-VOC samplers from Lowe's – which are about $2.50 a pop). Of course, in an effort to prove her paint-psychic abilities, Sherry called her favorite before even breaking out the paintbrush. Can you guess which one it is? Hint: it rhymes with "spoon mine."
Here they are in the future dining room, painted in that same order (with Collingwood on top and Moonshine on the bottom):
We just did one coat with a paintbrush (it had great coverage) doing our best to keep the edges feathered so when we eventually paint over everything we aren't left with slightly raised squares where we tested (which is why we didn't use painters tape to make perfect squares that also might be visible after we paint over them).
And ever the overachiever (or just someone who loves to paint), Sherry finally embraced the test square method and went ahead and painted big swatches in the family room too. One set near the TV…
…and another set next to the big window (since it gets a different amount of daylight).
After all, one of the great things about these testers is that you get to see what certain colors look like throughout the day and in varying amounts of daylight and artificial light. We do this with the small paint swatches too, but it certainly was nice to judge a color from across the room for once.
Speaking of different lights, here are all of the colors again at night when things are much yellower from the artificial light (they're all painted in the same order as listed above, by the way):
So after a couple of days I finally admitted that (say it with me) Sherry was right all along. Moonshine, the one on the bottom, is by far our favorite of the bunch. Collingwood (the top one) almost won us over, but it's so warm/tan that it reminded us a lot of Glidden's Sand White, which was in our first house's living room and office. We love that color, but it's not gray enough for what we want this time, so in the spirit of doing something fresh and new we crossed it off the list. And Grey Owl (the middle one) read as too green/blue in our house's light, so we worried it too might not immediately read "gray" and instead might be "muddy blue-gray" which is what we had in our last house's bedroom and kitchen.
Moonshine is probably the "purist" of the grays we tested, and it almost has a soft shimmery quality to it – like there's some silver mixed in. We're excited about it because it's definitely dark enough to make the moldings pop (especially once we paint the ones in the living room white) but it's not too bright or saturated to compete with bolder curtains, art, and accessories that we plan to introduce. Now we just have to cross our fingers that we can find the energy to paint the two largest rooms in our house… and the hallway that connects them. We actually started the job today- but with baby & blog duty going on at the same time, it might take us a few days to get 'er done. We'll share pics as soon as we've got 'em though!
Have any of you used the paint tester method to choose a color? Did it confirm your feelings or send you in a totally new direction? And dare we ask how long the test squares stayed up before the room finally got painted completely? Ours were up nearly a week, but we could totally see how that could turn into a month (or a year) if you still weren't 100% sure which way to go…
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love YHL, and i also love gray…i just painted the majority of our house gray. i agonized for weeks and then decided the gray in my head didn't exist! then i found it…cape hatteras sand by ben moore. it's in a totally obscure location in the fan deck in my opinion, and not easily included when comparing grays…check it out! every sinlge person who comes over gushes over the beauty of it ; )
Choosing a paint color always gives me major anxiety. In our last house we painted the great room only to discover after completion that it was "too green" so we repainted. Now we NEVER choose a paint color until we've painted a test on our walls. Not after the "repainting the great-room debacle."
In our current great room we have BM Light Pewter (lightened a little with white) and it's gorgeous. The undertones change a lot depending on the lighting/time of day, though. I can see how someone might think it's too warm, though sometimes it has a blue cast. Go figure! But it kinda goes with everything!
Love the gray you chose! Can't wait to see it on the walls and I hope you don't mind but I'm totally going gray (in more ways than one?) in my next house!!
Love the grey. I think it's underrated. Although, I've read that grey is the new beige. Whatever that means.
Talk about painter's paralysis. I had 13 (yes you read that right) swatches on my bedroom wall before finally deciding on SW Rainwashed. It's gorgeous and everything I was looking for in a bedroom paint color (cheery, yet serene). It took me 2 months to choose a color and 2 days to paint the whole room.
Shout out for Martha Stewart's Sharkey Gray (from her Home Depot line). I used it in my family room, and I would love to use it to re-paint my hall, foyer, and living room, which are Water Chestnut (Glidden), which reads very green on my walls. (I love the modern yet soft gray in my 1960s California ranch house.) Imagine my joy when I checked out Martha's new cabinetry line at HD and saw that she used Sharkey Gray as the gray in that line. I feel like I picked a winner!
Are you guys painting all the trim which is dark brownish now, white? On the ceiling too? Are you painting the ceilings of the two rooms gray as well?
There are 11 little containers of paint sitting on the table behind me as I type. Every one is a shade of gray! I usually slap the paint on separate pieces of fiber-core and stick them to the wall. Cheap, removable, and reusable!
I love the color grey on walls, but unfortunately I am a renter so no painting for me. Hopefully I will have a place of my own in a year or two… and the first color up will most certainly be grey.
Too late since you've started painting, but I found, after covering an inordinate amount of oddly colored woodwork, that painting the trim first, happily slopping paint onto the wall, and then painting the walls, was the best and fastest way to get a good finish…..that woodwork is going to take 2 if not 3 coats!
My entire great room and kitchen are painted in moonshine! Love it in all the spaces!
Will you snap a 'during' picture of the walls, before the trim is painted? Pretty please? (I assume you paint the trim after the walls?) From my moniter, I think that the stain on our natural wood trim is similar shade to your trim. As it's a rental, we cannot paint the trim, so selfishly, I would love to see what it might look like with grey walls (I love grey, but I do not love the antique white which is all over and over and over our apartment :)
I love that you are adding warm grey tones-I'm sure it will look fabulous!
have a question regarding wood trim. My place has dark wood trim (slightly lighter than yours, but not much) all over the entire house and all of the doors are dark wood as well. I can't paint the trim (since I am ranting) so I need to work with colors that complement the wood-any suggestions on greys? It's hard to find decorating images with wood trim.
Just to throw another gray into the mix, we went with "Essential Gray" by Sherwin Williams in our living/dining/kitchen. Since then, several friends have used the same color.
I love yall's final choice, though!
Mmmm…loving your choices! While reading, I was definitely torn between Collingwood and Moonshine as well. Collingwood likely would have won for me because of the warmer brownish tone to it, but I totally get the direction you guys are headed with the new place. Hubby and I are currently on the search for a new home after 6 years in our starter home that we completely "re-did" as well…these posts are making me even hungrier!! lol
Hi guys! I have a question totally unrelated to your post. I have a cockatiel named Titus who lives in the corner of my living room in a cage that really does not pair well with the rest of the decor in there. I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions for stylish ways to integrate pet habitats (birdcage in my case!) with decor. I have perused many design magazines and blogs and have seen maybe just one example of how this might be accomplished. Curious to hear your thoughts!
We did grey in our living room… and we did it twice. The first lighter grey looked good until it covered the entire room, then it looked more purple than grey. And, since I had a purple bedroom growing up, I developed a nasty hatred for purple…. IDK why. We ended up repainting with a darker grey that had no color hues to it. Looks great now, and I love it. :)
I look forward to seeing the results of your painting. What paint finish are you going with?
I've got 3 different colors on my kitchen & dining room walls as I type, in 3 different spots no less! They've been up for about a week. I too am trying to find the perfect gray, one with a hint of blue but everything is reading BLUE, BLUE, BLUE on the walls! It's actually been quite frustrating. I'm afraid that if I can't get it right, I may find myself reverting back to…beige. :(
Yes! Moonshine was my favorite from the first wall painted swatch picture. It does have a silvery look to it. Can't wait to see the finished product.
I love grey! We used Behr's 'Ashes' in our living room and one guest room, and it is just the perfect neutral light grey. It doesn't read as warm or cool – just a very pure color.
Our bedroom is currently a deep plum-grey, which I LOVED when I put it on the walls last year, but I'm already jonesing to change it, preferably to something a little lighter.
YAY For Gray!
I think Gray is a hard color to pick.
Unfortunately, our first round of gray ended up having this lavender undertone in it. It wasn't noticeable with the swatch, but once it was ALL OVER the dining room and living room, it became very apparent. We also had used a gray that was color matched to the Olympic No VOC paint. For some reason though, the paint did not hold up well on my walls. With our Great Dane we are constantly cleaning drool off of the walls and every time we would wipe the walls with a damp rag, it would dry with a dark spot on the wall.
We ended up repainting with a different brand (Behr, I think) because of all of the spots from wiping the walls. The gray we have now is lovely and much more what I had envisioned in the first place!
We've used paint samples a lot. I recently wanted to paint our bedroom a soothing blue so I bought some samples. At the same time I knew my husband wasn't quite ready to motivate and paint the entire room (neither was I), so I actually painted squares of the colors I liked where picture frames hang. In the event that we couldn't paint for a while (which happened to be the case), we could just rehang the frames and hide our paint squares so no one had to know our little secret! I'm embarrassed to say we still haven't painted the room, and until I read your post today I forgot that we've got blue squares hiding in our bedroom!
I have had 7 gray swatches on my master bedroom wall for almost a year. I think I have settled on Sherwin Williams Mindful Gray. I know gray is hot right now, but I like it because it is neutral, sophisticated and still bright and airy, and not beige. Question, what other colors would you consider neutral? I want to neutralize my walls and punch up the colors in furniture and accessories (my home is currently opposite, neutral furniture and accessories/ colorful walls), but don't want all beige and gray.
We live dangerously. We go into the store with a basic idea of what we want (i.e. brown, green, red, etc.) pick a shade then take it home and slap it on the walls. We've done four rooms this way in our fixer-upper home. So far the results have been perfect, but it makes me nervous every time.
Our only regret: using flat. It shows every little scratch!
I just used paint samples to test a cream colour in my living room and I'm so glad I did because my original choice would have been too dark! I love the moonshine and I'm so excited to see it all painted! It will look fabulous!
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Match Play needs some sprucing up
The Match Play Championship immediately became the most interesting of the World Golf Championship events when the concept was introduced in 1999. And that remains the case today.
But seven years into the process, several things could be done to alter the format and perhaps make it better. In a 72-hole stroke-play event, not much can be done. But the Match Play offers all kinds of opportunities.
Each year, a few top players skip the tournament, with Sergio Garcia being the most notable no-show this year and Ernie Els having missed the previous two.
Perhaps it has something to do with the one-and-done nature of the event and the long travel for the possibility of playing just one day. Maybe it's the venue. Or it could be the format.
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Other than the four majors and the Ryder Cup, the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship is perhaps the most anticipated golf tournament of the year. Join ESPN.com's Match Play Challenge and fill out your bracket as the annual event begins Wednesday at La Costa. Join now!
Whatever the case may be, a few tweaks to the Match Play Championship should be considered.
Here are some suggestions.
La Costa in Southern California has been the site for all but one Match Play Championship, and players have complained about sparse crowds and bumpy greens. Hence, a reported move next year to Tucson, Ariz. But that is not enough.
While playing in Tucson is a great idea, why not alternate the tournament between the West and East coasts each year? It is bad enough that the other two World Golf Championship events will be anchored to the same venue (Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, and the new CA Championship at Doral). Why can't the Match Play move around?
It would also quiet the cries that having the tournament in the West every year can hurt some of the Florida tournaments. If you move it back and forth, those arguments dissipate. Plus, the variety would be welcome.
Instead of the current 64-player field, double it to 128 and give more players a chance to cash in on the big purse. One of the complaints about the World Golf events is that the rank-and-file PGA Tour players do not have access to them. Sure, they could play better. But those who make the tournaments tend to benefit just from being there with the guaranteed money and the world rankings points that are available. More players would also negate the need to have an opposite event the same week. You could still go right off the Official World Golf Ranking.
One of the biggest risks at the Match Play Championship is the very real possibility that all the top players could be gone after one or two days. Corporate sponsors don't much care for that, and nor does television. Fans probably don't like it much, either. What if they can't get to the tournament during the week? At least at a regular event, they know their favorite players will be there for at least two days.
So borrow a page from the U.S. Amateur and contest the first three days at stroke play. (The Amateur does this for two days.) Use the first two days of stroke play to cut the field to 64. Then use the third day of stroke play to get it down to 16 players. You'd be assured of having everyone around for at least two days, and many for three. And those fights for the last spots would be intense, with sudden death to determine the final players.
In the current Match Play Championship, first-round losers still get a hefty payday. Last year it was equivalent to finishing in the top 15 in some events. With stroke-play qualifying, everyone who bows out after 36 holes would get paid the same, say $10,000. Throw in another $5,000 for those who make it to the third day. And save the big money for the Match Play participants.
After 54 holes of stroke play, the field would be reduced to 16 players. That would mean eight matches on Saturday morning, followed by four on Saturday afternoon, reducing the field to four players for Sunday. And this would all but assure a good number of name players making it to the weekend.
Forget about a 36-hole final, it can prove to be anticlimactic. And forget a third-place match, too. Have the semifinals Sunday morning, with the final match on Sunday afternoon. For those who make it to the end, it's a lot of golf -- potentially 126 holes over the week. Is that too much? Perhaps. If that is too big of an issue, then make the stroke-play qualifying just 36 holes. But requiring the winner to claim four matches after enduring stroke-play qualifying would make for an impressive champion.
Although he played just six Champions Tour events last year, he still managed to finish 16th on the money list with $959,000. Then he started this year winning the first two tournaments, joining Don January (1981) and Larry Nelson (2001) as the only players to do so. When he won the ACE Group Classic on Sunday, Roberts, 50, became the first player ever to win the first three events of the season. And if he wins this week's Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am, he'll join Chi Chi Rodriguez as the only Champions Tour players to win four straight tournaments.
Roberts was never a superstar on the regular tour, but he is proving just how big putting can be in senior golf. The Boss of the Moss is making the best of his second chance, now having won four of his nine tournaments since turning 50.
|Got a question about the PGA Tour? Ask ESPN.com golf writer Bob Harig, who will answer your inquiries in his column each week.
Q. Is there any word yet on the new scoring system for the Fedex Cup? If not, what would be the likely weighting on majors and what other tournaments would be worth more?
A. There has been nothing definite on how next year's point system will work. It is a complicated deal that needs careful consideration. The PGA Tour wants a system in place under which those who earn a lot of points throughout the year will be rewarded -- but not to the extent that they can skip any of the season-ending Championship Series events. As for the weighting of points, the tour should do it like NASCAR. Make it the same at every tournament. In golf, the majors and the World Golf events have enough prestige attached to them. Extra points are not necessary. If more points are given, it will give the top players another excuse to skip the rank-and-file tournaments.
Q. We see almost all of the great courses watching the PGA Tour, but are we ever going to see Pine Valley?
A. That is highly doubtful. Pine Valley is ultra private and its membership policies (male only) would prevent it from hosting a PGA Tour event.
Q. Will the PGA Tour ever require that a player must play every tournament within a 4-5 year period?
A. It certainly would not be a bad idea, although there is nothing in the works to implement such a plan. The LPGA Tour has a similar rule that requires players to attend every event at least once in four years. That means a tournament and its fans are assured of getting Annika Sorenstam and Grace Park and, when she becomes a member, Michelle Wie, at least once in four years. That is called helping out the sponsors and television partners. In the case of the PGA Tour, however, the players would likely balk, citing their independent contractor status. They feel they have a right to pick and choose when and where they want to play, as long as they meet the tour minimum of 15 events.
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