FLOWERS BY THE SQUARE
A Flowery Past All of these were used in the past, though which was used when? That I don’t know. In the gallery, the second shot is from a flowering vine that was killed by a falling tree. It also… Read More ›
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CBWC: YOU CAN DRIVE IT
CBWC: Things to Drive I was just wondering if driving including flying? I’m not sure. What do you think?
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FOTD – AUTUMN BRILLIANCE – PART I
FOTD – October 16 – Autumn Leaves I muct admit I didn’t realize I’d done this post twice. That’s what you get when you have such an abundance of pictures, I guess. I got lost in the sorting. October makes me… Read More ›
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FOTD – AUTUMN BRILLIANCE – PART II
FOTD – October 16 – Autumn Brilliance I was going to post this tomorrow, but I have so many pictures, I figured maybe I better put them up now because there are so many more already in folders — and more… Read More ›
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NEARING PEAK FOLIAGE
FALL’S HERE! NOW WE HURRY BEFORE IT ENDS We waited. Would it be a good one? Would this year glow and would the weather cooperate? You really never know. Weather is always the key element in our seasons and ours… Read More ›
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LET ME BEGIN
Yesterday was beautiful. Perfect for going out and taking pictures which is what I wanted to do. It was also the day I needed to change the bed linens. The birds needed feeding and the deck cleaning. I had to… Read More ›
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SPONTANEITY OR STABILITY?
Fandango’s Provocative Question #139 Good question this week! I’m glad you specified “today” because I have changed so much over the years. At my age, spontaneity is hard to come by. My brain is always eager to try something new, but… Read More ›
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PAST AND PRESENT: A GLOWING WORLD
PAST TALES AND PRESENT COLORS I thought after we got through shopping at the Asian grocery, there would be time for some photography. But the shopping took a lot longer than I thought it would and we had frozen food… Read More ›
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Should fossil fuel companies have “a seat at the table” in crafting solutions to global warming? – by Sean Munger – Sean Munger’s History and Culture Dispatches
When your house is burning down, you don’t ask the arsonist for his help in putting out the fire he started. This article is part of a long series of my thoughts on the role of climate change in history,… Read More ›
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AUTUMN – A TRIUMPHANT ENTRY
AUTUMN WITH A BANG! I love how Autumn hides and then — out of nowhere — shows up with a wild flourish of colors that takes your breath away! .
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AUTUMN GLORIES BEGIN AT LAST!
FOTD – October 12 – Oh my! Foliage! This was probably not the best day to discover my SD card reader was malfunctioning. As photographers, we worry about cameras and lenses. The little widgets we use to connect one thing… Read More ›
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COMPRESSION SOCKS – A SORRY TALE
My ankles and feet swell when I stand for more than a few minutes. Much of the standing time is cooking or I’m out on the deck, cleaning it and the feeders, filling the feeders, and watering flowerboxes and Chrysanthemums…. Read More ›
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WAITING ON THE WORLD TO CHANGE
Originally posted on rjptalk:
For all of the 21st century so far, I have been looking for music with social relevance. Yes, there have been a few songs, but not much in these two decades. And who are the young… -
AN ALMOST WORDLESS PAST – AUTUMN NEEDS NO WORDS
An Almost Wordless Past I could see bits of red in the now, almost entirely golden woods out back. While the birds are playing loop-the-loop in the new feeder, the trees decided it might be fall after all. We went out…. Read More ›
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SHARING THE WORLD, 12 OCT ’21
SHARE YOUR WORLD 10-12-2021 I think the picture makes a statement. Autumn showed up. Still not fully engaged, but give it another couple of days — if the sun shines and it gets cold at night. It will keep getting better… Read More ›
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ONE PAPER PLATE AT A TIME
My son has a friend who’s here most weekends. He’s a smart guy. His head is in the right place. He does very little cooking and uses paper plates. He doesn’t use tons of them — maybe a couple of… Read More ›
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MUCH ADO ABOUT BIRDS – PART II
A Break With the Past I hung one of the two new feeders yesterday. It’s a new flat feeder to replace the older one the squirrels have chewed up. The one Owen put up today is called a “Fly-through feeder.”… Read More ›
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MORE CHYRSANTHEMUMS AND MANY BUDS TO COME
FOTD – October 11 – Chrysanthemum And that’s what we’re growing here, too even though the petunias and fuchsia still think it’s August. The red one is in full bloom and the orange one is full of buds. I love watching… Read More ›
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GEORGES BANK AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE GROUND FISHERY – (Mostly) from Encyclopedia.com
Georges Bank: Collapse of the Ground Fishery I wanted to write about this but realized others had already done the research. So instead of writing, I found the best articles I could about what had happened. The most readable was… Read More ›
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MUCH ADO ABOUT BIRDS
A Break With the Past That’s good because I have some pretty pictures of our backyard birds. Goldfinch, still in their summer breeding feathers. Hairy woodpeckers hungry for suet. and a pudgy Tufted Titmouse. Square! After having no money last… Read More ›
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NOW THE DAYS ARE SHORT – Rich Paschall
The Autumn Of The Year, RICH PASCHALL When I was seventeen, it was a very good year… When I turned seventeen, I had finished my Junior year in high school and was looking forward to the Senior year at a new… Read More ›
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OLDEN GOLDEN DAYS
Garry and I had interesting careers. To some degree, the work we did made a difference, though how much difference is still a point of discussion. Garry covered news. Trials, murders, fatal accidents, crime, politics, celebrities, opening days at Fenway,… Read More ›
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ON TOP
ATOP THE HOUSE How’s your roof? Ours is okay, so far. No loose shingles. No leaks. No holes. It’s just that it’s 20 years old and every time I look at it, I start to worry. Who knew we’d live… Read More ›
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BECOMING MYSELF (AGAIN)
I used to be me. By the time I rounded the corner to 50, I was sure who I was, give or take a lie or two. I knew what I looked like and believed. That was when everything started… Read More ›
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MEALWORMS AND MOM
Once upon a time about 45 years ago, Owen wanted geckos. They were popular with kids his age. You could buy a couple of them at the pet store for a couple of dollars. The real money was spent buying… Read More ›
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ALWAYS THE LIGHT
LIGHT FROM THE PAST I know that all of these were previously posted. I don’t know if they were posted under light or for some other reason, but all of them are all about light. When I think about photography,… Read More ›
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AN UXBRIDGE AUTUMN by GARRY ARMSTRONG
FALL IN THE VALLEY More of yesterday’s photographs with a bit of Halloween. Tomorrow, the temperature is dropping and we’ll get the crispness too. I think by Halloween, it will finally feel like Halloween. A FLASHBACK FRIDAY POST
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FESTIVAL OF LEAVES: OUR COLORS ARE BEGINNING
Festival of Leaves 2021: Week # 3 We were out and about yesterday and I brought my camera. There is color. Much of it can be found in vines — Virginia Creeper and wild grape vines are both bright. there… Read More ›
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MUMS AND PUMPKINS
FOTD – October 4 – Mums and Pumpkins The chrysanthemums are blooming joyfully in two pots on the deck — in deep orange and deep red. The fuchsia still thinks it’s summertime, as do the petunias and the birds, squirrels and… Read More ›
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THROUGH A WINDOW
CBWC: Looking through or Into a Window A selection from recently and long past. Black and white and what you see — or can’t see — through the windows.
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SQUARES: A BREAK WITH THE PAST
IT’S ALL ABOUT NOW Considering I took these pictures yesterday afternoon, that’s about as much breaking with the past as I can manage in one day. Colors are coming. If the temperatures would drop a bit — and they are… Read More ›
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TRULY THE SLOW LANE
I don’t know who said it first, but I remember the first time I said it. It was almost 15 years ago and I was still thinking about the difference between work and retirement. I thought of working as “fast”… Read More ›
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RED-SHOULDERED HAWK -PHOTOS BY OWEN KRAUS
What do you do when you don’t have a long lens and you really need one? You take the pictures anyway and hope for the best. Flash warning: these pictures have been mercilessly cropped. Isn’t it amazing how our eyes… Read More ›
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CURVES, TWIRLS, AND ARCHES
CFFC: Curvy or Arches I am glad to post a photograph that isn’t a bird, squirrel, chipmunk, or flower. To be fair, I \love both the creatures and the flowers. I love them so much, I worry whether or not I’m… Read More ›
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BIRDS OF MANY FEATHERS, A SQUIRREL, AND A SNAPPING TURTLE
Present and Past Connections Usually this would be my biggest month of picture taking, but it’s still raining. Okay, it stopped for a few hours this morning. That gave me a chance to get to the deck and clean up… Read More ›
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SQUIRREL WITH CHRYSANTHEMUMS
FOTD – October 5 – Squirrel with Chrysanthemums I thought it was very nice of this squirrel to pose behind the red mums. Just as if I’d posed her on purpose.
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Facebook: the poison we’ve chosen, and which we probably deserve. – by Sean Munger – Sean Munger’s History and Culture Dispatches
Facebook is faulty not just because of its rapacious mismanagement, but because it is fundamentally incapable of understanding human relationships. Today may be the long-awaited day of reckoning for Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Even if it’s not that… Read More ›
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AN UXBRIDGE AUTUMN by GARRY ARMSTRONG
FALL IN THE VALLEY More of yesterday’s photographs with a bit of Halloween. Tomorrow, the temperature is dropping and we’ll get the crispness too. I think by Halloween, it will finally feel like Halloween.
