Emelyn Morris-Sayre's Blog

My family held their annual reunion in August in South Carolina and I was blown away by the incredible sunrise each morning. I found myself waking up at 6 a.m., quietly heading out of the house so that I wouldn't wake anyone else and heading towards the beach. Pawley's Island has beautiful, sandy...

Since becoming a real estate professional and working for Royal Kingdom Associates, I had forgotten that vegetable gardening can be hazardous to your health! I decided this year that in addition to all of my perennial flowers and potted annuals, I would plant some squash. I picked out zucchini an...

My husband and I recently drove to the top of Mt. Evans to participate in our youngest son's engagement celebration. Josh suprised his girlfriend by proposing after they had climbed to the top. While waiting for them to ascend, I hiked close to the parking lot only to encounter a herd of Big Horn...

The Scottish Festival and Games were held August 14th and 15th in Highlands Ranch, CO. This was my first year to attend and I was amazed at the size and participation in this celebration of Scottish Heritage. The park was filled with tents representing each clan plus numerous other organizations ...

My cousin, Rosie, from Australia, visited the United States last week for the very first time and her major desire was to see her very first baseball game and to eat an original hot dog!  I flew back to Arlington, VA to see my mom and was joined by my sister and niece from South Carolina. We trav...

As I flew into Reagan National Airport a couple of days ago, we were put in circular pattern around the airport to avoid the heavy storm clouds and lightning activity surrounding Washington, D.C.  The airplane was half-full, so I immediately grabbed my camera to try to capture some of the storm. ...

I received a message saying that ActiveRain is following me on Twitter. Wow!  I attended the REBARcamp in Denver this past week and managed to tweet a little bit about the event, the topics and especially about our keynote speaker, Patty Silverstein, Denver Economist. Silverstein spoke about what...

About two weeks ago, I mentioned that a little robin had decided to build a nest in my flowering pear tree in my front yard in Lakewood, Colorado.  Every day I stop by to see how she, now known as Rosie the Robin, and her soon to be family is doing. I have been taking pictures daily and thought I...

On Wednesday, we closed a transaction and decided to take a video testimonial to add to our Royal Kingdom Associates website. This was our first attempt and we are very pleased with the added dimension to our Testimonial page on our website.  Additionally, my partner Robin Lucy posted the video o...

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