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Opinionated writer with hopes for a better future for all plus a big helping of cynicism.
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THE FUNNIEST COMPUTER GLITCH – EVER
This hasn’t been a funny year, so I probably needed a good laugh. I didn’t expect the laugh to come from a wild and crazy computer glitch. Generally, computer glitches are not funny. They make me crazy and I wind… Read More ›
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MACRO FLOWERS
FOTD – February 24 –Macro Flowers I haven’t used my macro lens in a while, probably because nothing is blooming. My orchid is sending up shoots and I’m ignoring it except for watering because the two times I tried to… Read More ›
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DON’T PUT IT IN THE MIDDLE (UNLESS YOU WANT TO)
A Photo a Week Challenge: Off-Center You absolutely shouldn’t put the picture in the center of the photograph except when that’s the right place to put it. The “rules” of photography are not laws etched in stone. They are suggestions, sometimes… Read More ›
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PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES AND KNOWING ALFRED EISENSTAEDT
The first time I went to the Vineyard, it was my honeymoon — to my first husband and the year was 1965. I didn’t know anything about the Vineyard. I hadn’t even known it was there, but we were looking… Read More ›
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WHAT DOES CHARLIE BAKER HAVE AGAINST WORCESTER COUNTY?
Massachusetts isn’t a huge state. We aren’t Texas or even New York where there are miles of open country between cities. Basically, we have one city — Boston — and a lot of small towns. You can drive from the… Read More ›
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SOLOMON’S SEAL – AN EARLY SPRING FLOWER
FOTD – February 21 –SOLOMON’S SEAL Solomon’s Seal was a wildflower, but I love it and I took bunches of it from the woods and planted them along the other side of my driveway. They still grow wild, but I… Read More ›
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AN INJURED SQUIRREL GETS A GOOD FEED
This isn’t the first injured squirrel I’ve had spend a lot of time in the feeder. Sometimes, I think they managed to escape a hawk or some other larger predator. But squirrels fight each other too as do most other… Read More ›