Every person who gets interviewed on television says the same thing using almost identical words. It’s our current American mantra, that those hooligans who rioted in our Capitol are not really who we are. Not really. Maybe a few of… Read More ›
Photography
FUN FOTOS OF BARKING TREES?
CFFC: Bark – Tree Bark or Dog Bark I know our trees don’t really bark, unless one is full of birds who are hungry. Then they don’t so much bark as squawk! I think we are lucky the trees can’t bark…. Read More ›
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 ›
WORLD SHARING AS FEBRUARY DRAWS TO ITS END
SHARE YOUR WORLD 2-23-2021 Funny how fast the world changes. Yesterday, hospitals were no longer allowed to distribute COVID-19 vaccinations but oddly enough, today that rule has vanished like chaff before the wind. I suspect I’m not the only one who… Read More ›
PRINTING THE LEGEND WON’T FIX ANYTHING – GARRY ARMSTRONG
I don’t believe we can look at the sound and fury of the past couple of months and still cling to the idyllic notion that we’re “the cradle of liberty.” Not anymore. The phlegm from my head cold is stuck… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
TO PROTECT AND SERVE – Garry Armstrong
Policing in the United States is a hot button issue, particularly policing in minority communities. The George Floyd case is but one of many police-involved incidents that has cast a harsh light on the disparate way law and order is… Read More ›
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 ›
WALKING SHADOWS: HOW MUCH WORSE CAN THINGS GET?
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” ― William… Read More ›
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 ›
PICTURES IN THE BLOCK EDITOR
Yesterday Garry slipped into the block editor and wrote a whole piece. He didn’t make any special effort. He just wrote it. How humiliating for me! Of course, he doesn’t deal with the finer points — like design, editing, proofreading,… Read More ›
