Cajun Cottage Under the Oaks

6th Mystery Literature Location

<p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/100_2577.jpg"><img title="100_2577" height="262" alt="100_2577" src="https://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/images/100_2577.jpg" width="350" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a></p> <p>Here is a snapshot of the girls at our <a href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/2006/07/6th_mystery_lit.html">6th Mystery Literature Location</a>.</p> <p>Now do you know where we were?&nbsp; </p> <p>Hint: <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/100_2557_1.jpg"></a>&nbsp; It's in Alabama.</p> <p>Here's another photo with a helpful hint:</p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/100_2564.jpg"><img title="100_2564" height="262" alt="100_2564" src="https://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/images/100_2564.jpg" width="350" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> </p>

6th Mystery Literature Location

Here is a snapshot of the girls at our 6th Mystery Literature Location.

Now do you know where we were? 

Hint:   It's in Alabama.

Here's another photo with a helpful hint:

6th Mystery Literature Location+

<p>Oma, the girls and I are headed on a trip this week.&nbsp; We will be stopping at one of our Mystery Literature Locations so I thought I'd share it with you all and, when we return, I hope to have a picture of us properly standing in front of this historical literary house.<a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=360,height=239,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/homefront.jpg"><img title="Homefront" height="199" alt="Homefront" src="https://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/images/homefront.jpg" width="300" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a></p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=264,height=188,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/cottage.jpg"></a></p> <p>Can you guess the location?</p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=264,height=188,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/cottage.jpg"><img title="Cottage" height="213" alt="Cottage" src="https://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/images/cottage.jpg" width="300" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a></p>

6th Mystery Literature Location+

Oma, the girls and I are headed on a trip this week.  We will be stopping at one of our Mystery Literature Locations so I thought I'd share it with you all and, when we return, I hope to have a picture of us properly standing in front of this historical literary house.

Can you guess the location?

5th Mystery Literature Location Answer

<p>Mary Ellen correctly identified the secret location of the <a href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/2006/05/5th_mystery_lit.html">5th Mystery Literature Location.</a></p> <p>It was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/006440188X/houseoflitera-20/"><em>The Secret Garden </em>by Frances Hodgson Burnett</a>.</p> <p>This is a perfect summertime read.&nbsp; Princess has read it each summer.&nbsp; Its freshness never fades.</p> <p>Since our planned <a href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/2006/02/millymollymandy.html">summer read <em>Milly-Molly-Mandy</em></a> has already been devoured by DQ, I think this is an appropriate, summer book to take it's place.</p>

5th Mystery Literature Location Answer

Mary Ellen correctly identified the secret location of the 5th Mystery Literature Location.

It was The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

This is a perfect summertime read.  Princess has read it each summer.  Its freshness never fades.

Since our planned summer read Milly-Molly-Mandy has already been devoured by DQ, I think this is an appropriate, summer book to take it's place.

5th Mystery Literature Location

<p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=432,height=341,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/mystery.jpg"><img title="Mystery" height="78" alt="Mystery" src="https://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/images/mystery.jpg" width="100" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a><strong>5th Mystery Literature Location</strong></p> <p>Spring and summer are the best times to come here but autumn reveals a hidden depth of its own.&nbsp; Anyone can enter this mystery location---the lame, the sick, the orphaned, those in search of contentment---if they have the imagination and the vision to view the beauty of God's grace beneath the weeds and overgrowth of a fallen world.</p> <p>Shhhh!&nbsp; If you know the answer, just give a little wave in the comments section; but don't tell.&nbsp; &nbsp;The answer will be revealed tomorrow.</p>

5th Mystery Literature Location

5th Mystery Literature Location

Spring and summer are the best times to come here but autumn reveals a hidden depth of its own.  Anyone can enter this mystery location---the lame, the sick, the orphaned, those in search of contentment---if they have the imagination and the vision to view the beauty of God's grace beneath the weeds and overgrowth of a fallen world.

Shhhh!  If you know the answer, just give a little wave in the comments section; but don't tell.   The answer will be revealed tomorrow.

Mysterious Rose

<p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=100,height=112,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/youngrose.jpg"><img title="Youngrose" height="112" alt="Youngrose" src="https://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/images/youngrose.jpg" width="100" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a>The answer to the <a href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/2006/05/4th_mystery_lit.html#comments">4th Mystery Literature Location</a> seemed to have stumped everyone except Jenn.</p> <p>The photo was an image of <a href="http://hoover.archives.gov/LIW/pioneering/pioneering_mansfield-rose.html"><strong>Rose Wilder Lane</strong></a> with her two pet dogs in her house in Dansbury, Connecticut.</p> <p>Rose was the daughter and only surviving child of Laura Ingalls Wilder, <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=170,height=235,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/rosewilderlane.gif"><img title="Rosewilderlane" height="138" alt="Rosewilderlane" src="https://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/images/rosewilderlane.gif" width="100" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px" /></a>famous&nbsp; author of the <em>Little House </em>series.&nbsp; It is not widely known that Rose was a gifted writer in her own right and wrote several books and stories long before her mother ever took up a pen.&nbsp; &nbsp;Rose coached her mother in her writing.&nbsp; Rose was also a world traveler, a Vietnam war correspondent, and a Red Cross volunteer.&nbsp; </p> <p>The other day, <a href="http://www.pelicanpub.com/">Pelican Publishing</a> contacted me to negotiate a contract for my middle-grade reader on Rose Wilder Lane.&nbsp; &nbsp;So you all know what I'll be doing these summer months.&nbsp; I plan to write in the morning while the household sleeps and at night while the household sleeps.&nbsp; Afternoons will be reserved for trips to the park, movies, children's museum, water park at the aquatic center, etc.&nbsp; </p> <p>It should work out incredibly well.&nbsp; I'm excited about this opportunity.&nbsp; The children are excited.&nbsp; My husband is excited.&nbsp; Tell your children to never stop plugging away at their dreams.&nbsp; Dreams <strong><em>do</em></strong> come true.</p>

Mysterious Rose

The answer to the 4th Mystery Literature Location seemed to have stumped everyone except Jenn.

The photo was an image of Rose Wilder Lane with her two pet dogs in her house in Dansbury, Connecticut.

Rose was the daughter and only surviving child of Laura Ingalls Wilder, famous  author of the Little House series.  It is not widely known that Rose was a gifted writer in her own right and wrote several books and stories long before her mother ever took up a pen.   Rose coached her mother in her writing.  Rose was also a world traveler, a Vietnam war correspondent, and a Red Cross volunteer. 

The other day, Pelican Publishing contacted me to negotiate a contract for my middle-grade reader on Rose Wilder Lane.   So you all know what I'll be doing these summer months.  I plan to write in the morning while the household sleeps and at night while the household sleeps.  Afternoons will be reserved for trips to the park, movies, children's museum, water park at the aquatic center, etc. 

It should work out incredibly well.  I'm excited about this opportunity.  The children are excited.  My husband is excited.  Tell your children to never stop plugging away at their dreams.  Dreams do come true.