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Learning and Breaking Rules
I went on a docent-led tour at the museum this afternoon. The topic: artists bending the rules. The docent was a seventy-year-old woman with marked arthritis of the spine. To turn to look at something… more →
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Learning and Breaking Rules
wrote 1 week ago: I went on a docent-led tour at the museum this afternoon. The topic: artists bending the rules. The … more →
In Search of Spring
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wrote 1 month ago: It is nearly one Monday morning. I spent the afternoon at the art museum in search of the wild flowe … more →
Mother of Ten Thousand Things
wrote 2 months ago: It’s half past midnight on Sunday. I’m having one of those days of magical energy that I … more →
Instinct for Joy
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wrote 2 months ago: I came home from the gym at five this afternoon. The sun was still high in the winter sky but the sh … more →
Worlds That Don't Come Together
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wrote 4 months ago: This morning after coming back from the gym I took a fourth of a pill I take occasionally. I forgot … more →
The Early Morning
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wrote 1 year ago: Forget the old saw, “the early bird gets the worm,” but the early morning holds an intriguing fascin … more →
How the East Was Won
wrote 3 years ago: We live our four-score years a matter of genetics, family influence, personal choice, and, largely, … more →
Murmur of the Heart Today
wrote 3 years ago: After a winter chuck full of dark, cold days, spring is welcome indeed. Without any disruptions this … more →
Holliday Park Is a Hidden Natural Gem
wrote 3 years ago: Saturday afternoon, hot and muggy as it was, I decided to veer off my way home from Half Price Books … more →
The Annual Rediscovery of Summer
wrote 3 years ago: I was walking to the car intent only on getting out of the heat again when I saw my neighbor, Kelley … more →
Michigan Summer Paradise of the Senses
wrote 3 years ago: Still and video photography are coming together in the same device. Witness the amazing Canon EOS 5D … more →
The Season's Highlight Surprise
wrote 3 years ago: I came out to water the plants on the deck this morning and found that the endive has sprung a handf … more →
Endive's Surprise Purple Flower
wrote 3 years ago: Lighting and the unusual make for interesting photography. This morning while watering the plants on … more →
Early Morning Garden Walk
wrote 3 years ago: I was up before six this morning and on my cushion after a trip to the bathroom. For a change, I wen … more →
More Images from My Walks
wrote 3 years ago: It’s a lazy, summer’s day. The air conditioner is humming away at the ninety-degree heat … more →
Learning to use shadow and the Camera Raw 5.3 Tone Curve
wrote 3 years ago: The Lumix continues to provide me with images with which to learn to use the Camera Raw 5.3 Tone Cur … more →
Writing Fiction, Riding Horses
wrote 3 years ago: I am reading Paul Russell’s fifth novel, War Against the Animals. It pits the old-time inhabitants o … more →
Houttuynia Cordata Invades the June Perennial Garden
wrote 3 years ago: See the full gallery on posterous Houttuynia cordata invades the border. It has taken over the large … more →
Culinary Herbs
wrote 3 years ago: See the full gallery on posterous Summer is here! On the lake, families gambol and recline on colorf … more →
