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Opinionated writer with hopes for a better future for all plus a big helping of cynicism.
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BLACK, WHITE, AND LIGHT
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Lighting of Any Kind The light in black and white is different than in color. You need not only light, but usually shadow or rays to show the light off to advantage.
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THE SOCIOPATHIC CONTRACTOR – BY ELLIN CURLEY
In 1987, my ex husband and I, along with our two children, spent weekends and summers in a one bedroom cottage on my mother’s property in Easton, CT. My grandparents had lived in the cottage when I was growing up…. Read More ›
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FINDING “THE QUIET MAN” – SEPTEMBER 1990
Fandango’s Dog Days of August #1 – Ireland, September 1990 I’m not sure what makes this month more of a dog than any other month. Meanwhile, the happiest critter in the house is Duke. He’s always happy and usually hungry… Read More ›
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RAPUNZEL WOULD HAVE HAD A HARD TIME IN WORCESTER
A Photo a Week Challenge: Tower A major shortage of towers has thwarted the return of Rapunzel. Maybe in Boston, though horses have a hard time on the packed street. Out here, where horses live, there just aren’t many towers. Not… Read More ›
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TRUTH IN ADVERTISING
Originally posted on lifelessons – a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown:
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NOT FEELING WELL
I spent most of the day in bed and only got up because my back needed to be in a different position. i’ve got some material posted for tomorrow and hopefully will be better by the day after. But, just… Read More ›
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DAVID CROCKETT (HE HATED “DAVY”) MIGHT HAVE BEEN A KING IN HIS WILD FRONTIER
I don’t usually post straight history right out of the books but we recently signed up for Disney + and found ourselves watching “Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier.” Interestingly, at the begiinning, there was a note that said… Read More ›
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DOGMA
FOWC with Fandango — Dogma Unless you count drinking coffee and checking email as dogma, I don’t have dogma to which I feel attached. I do, however, have personal rituals. Stuff I do, stuff in which I believe or at least… Read More ›
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THE LAST PICTURE ON MY LAST CARD – STILL IN MY COMPUTER
bushboys world I actually published this one already, but I’ll post one that hasn’t been processed, Though to be fair, aside from cropping I didn’t really process these much. They were taken in good light with the right lens, so… Read More ›
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ENJOYING AN IMPERFECT LIFE
Nothing goes exactly as planned. No vacation or visit is perfect. Some part of every meal won’t be ready when the rest of the dishes are served. Guests come too early or late, leave too soon — or not soon… Read More ›
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FAKE NEWS IS A LOT LESS WORK
You can’t live without news, but no one can live with it either. I don’t know how active reporters manage to cope with the news these days. It used to be a job. A hard job, an active and sometimes… Read More ›
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THE CHANGING SEASONS IN A WEIRD AND CHANGING WORLD – JULY 2020
The Changing Seasons: July 2020 It’s not just about pictures anymore. It’s about energy … finding enough of it to actually take pictures which look exactly like the pictures you took last month because you are still at home, so the… Read More ›
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EL DUQUE, DOG OF DAWGZ
I finally got some reasonably good pictures of El Duque. We were outside on the deck and I had to cajole him to stop hiding in the plants and show his handsome jowls. So here’s the Duke, in all his… Read More ›
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ALL THE REST OF THE SQUARES
ALL THE REST OF MY SQUARE PERSPECTIVES It’s the end of the month, so here are square pictures of all the various things I’ve taken square pictures of through the years and months. I’ll be back for the next square… Read More ›
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BIRDS AND BUSHES
Racket had gotten out of his cage. Nothing unusual about that, except that usually when I let him loose, I’d make sure to put away anything I cared about to avoid having Racket destroy it. It was futile but I… Read More ›
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PEACE TALKS – HARRY DRESDEN IS FINALLY BACK! – by JIM BUTCHER
I looked it up. I have waited six years for book sixteen in the Harry Dresden world to be published. I have waited patiently, then less patiently. A few months ago, there was a book by Jim Butcher called (tada!)… Read More ›
