sun, shade, and in-between
April 04, 2021
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It is spring. As I write, the temperature is 79 degrees, and the thermometer is eeking its way to 80. Either temperature will set a new record. Thus, it had to be flowers, once again, for today's blog. With that warmth, the 100 daffodil bulbs I planted last fall are sending green shoots through the soil with great speed, and, as you can see here, m...
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roses and then some
March 29, 2021
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Once again this week, wonderful gifted roses provided the material for today's blog. Over three days, I let my eyes, the changing light, and assorted surfaces lead the way in finding different backdrops and possibilities.
In my mind, there is nothing like the complicated subtleness of a single rose, using mid-morning natural west and muted south...
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product photography
March 21, 2021
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Whether it is a job from the greater retail world or an in-house shoot, product photography offers a myriad of possibilities for creativity and presentation. My husband, Fred, has been pondering the creation of a woven wool panel for denim jackets and vests for some time. He completed his first one this week, using an extraordinary natural dark gre...
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they keep on giving
March 14, 2021
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Orchids are amazing flowers. While growing up in New Mexico, it was rare to see an orchid, except upon occasion in a nursery or in a flower shop bouquet. They were expensive, and that price instilled fear about killing them when you brought the jewels home. Now you can find beautiful specimens in almost every grocery store flower section. They are...
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thinning ice
March 07, 2021
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This week, we celebrate a rather inauspicious anniversary. Although the first known case of COVID-19 was identified in America on January 21 in Washington State, it was a year ago on March 4, COVID-19 the virus became an official health issue. Fred and I had gotten together the following Sunday for a gathering with our birthday group, and the next...
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nothing specific
February 28, 2021
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My handy Webster's Vest Pocket Dictionary is a great size to grace the computer desk with all the other assorted stuff that lands on top, including dust. As I began photographing ice for today's blog, I was after the abstract, but had never checked the dictionary for a specific definition. The first two meanings are "expressing a quality apart from...
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it had to be snow
February 21, 2021
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Much of northern and other parts of New Mexico received its deepest snowfall of the season this week, welcomed by almost everyone. But what happened in Texas at the same time was such a catastrophe for millions, that the nation was thinking about snow and ice and broken water pipes and no drinking water and no food. Friends were without power and h...
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in house
February 15, 2021
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The low here this morning was 1. With a few high clouds but mostly sunny skies, the temperature is already up to 10 degrees. Checking the weather map and temperatures around the country, I know many of you are experiencing teeth-chattering, potentially deadly temperatures and icy conditions. With a bitter wind pushing the edges of a nation-wide pol...
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rhythm section returns
February 08, 2021
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Even if it is interrupted or takes on subtle or huge differences, the rhythm of life goes on for humans and other animals alike. This week holds one event that will, undoubtedly, not hold much love, and another next Sunday that traditionally does. But nature continues its rhythms, dictated by the length of the days, which in the northern hemisphere...
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playground rhythm
February 01, 2021
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Regardless of the city or town, where there is a park or a playground, I am automatically attracted to it. If the playground has fitness equipment in it, even better. As a child, I used to love hanging on rings and bars and running from one place to the next. These days, playground equipment isn't just plopped down willy nilly with swings and slide...
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the balls keep rolling
January 25, 2021
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In addition to a presidential inauguration ceremony this week with many amazing "firsts", another dubious first occurred on 21 January 2020. The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States, and since mid-March, all of our lives have been touched and changed by it. As human beings of different temperaments and personalities, we have eq...
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What would Ernie think?
January 18, 2021
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Perhaps it is because of the sight of our nation's capitol surrounded by fencing, razor wire, and troops, and New Mexico's beloved Roundhouse steps and building and Capitol Building North (where I worked for roughly nine years) also lined with barriers and fencing, that I started thinking about Ernie Mills. Born in Pittsburgh in 1926, the stalwart...
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back to nature
January 10, 2021
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There are times in all of our lives that require more than a little pondering and perspective. I suspect this week was one of those for many Americans and others across the globe. Thousands upon thousands of photographs and videos were shot during the storming of the Capitol, arrests have been made, soul searching is happening on many levels, and t...
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fifty years
January 03, 2021
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A new year and new decade found me pondering where I was fifty years ago and what was happening in the world. My sister was in graduate school in Washington state, and I was about to start the second semester of my junior year in college. Life was mostly composed of going to classes, studying, writing papers, and taking tests, as well as occasional...
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the year that was
December 27, 2020
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On Friday, 1 January 2021, one can officially say that 2020 was the year that was, adding a multitude of descriptors at the end, regardless of one's political, religious or philosophical leanings. It is not a period of time that will easily be forgotten, although the way in which time seemed to move with so much intensity, I am already losing detai...
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