I took a lot of pictures, so I got a few more ready to go. I am going to make a print of one of these — but I’m not sure which one. This means I was doing double duty… Read More ›
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X IS FOR FALL FOLIAGE?
FOTD – October 7 – X is for Crossing Bridges in Autumn Foliage No Xeranthemums for me. Now when there are autumnal bridges to cross and glorious fall foliage to make you catch your breath! What a difference from last… Read More ›
THE CHANGING SEASON – SEPTEMBER 2022
Not Quite Autumn: The Changing Seasons, September 2022 And so the seasons turn and now, it’s autumn. The leaves are beginning their change, but aren’t quite there yet. I think they will fully change during the next couple of days…. Read More ›
BACK AT THE FARM
Garry got the best pictures of the warm and furry animals, so somehow I wound up taking pictures of weeds and one big spider. This is the last corn crop of the season. Soon the farm will move into “winter”… Read More ›
JUST ANOTHER DAY
PHOTOS MOSTLY GARRY ARMSTRONG & A FEW BY MARILYN I got up in the morning and knew I had to wash my hair. Since I was washing my hair, it seemed a perfect time for a major shower cleansing. Why?… Read More ›
LONG WHITE NECKS
Cee reminded me today of ducks and then I remembered swans and specifically, sleeping swans, floating on the pond with their long necks and heads tucked under a wing. And how those necks are so long, they don’t have to… Read More ›
ALL THE GREENS
All the greens of early summer. Just the right prompt for today, a grey day with tidbits of rain.
SUMMER IN THE VALLEY, PHOTOS BY GARRY ARMSTRONG
Garry was looking at his pictures and remarked that his pictures and mine are nearly identical. Well, at least one could be the same picture. I think we were both standing in the same place when we took it. This… Read More ›
FLOWERS AND WATER PLANTS AT RIVER BEND
FOTD – June 14 – River Bend in June It was such a beautiful day today. Garry needed pictures for (potential) bit parts in movies or commercials. He has an itch to interact with a television camera again, though a movie… Read More ›
WATER WATER EVERYWHERE
CFFC: Water We live between rivers, amidst stream and dams and waterfalls. There are many problems in the valley, among them a lack of work and a fair bit of poverty — but I have always thought the beauty of… Read More ›
BLACK & WHITE LANDSCAPES
CBWC: In the Distance This is work I almost always do in color, so finding pictures in black and white was interesting. But there are so many pictures, pretty much everything is there. I just have to find it.
THE TREES BY THE RIVER
FOTD – March 18 – Winter trees by the Blackstone I finally processed most of the pictures I liked well enough to post. And just to make life ever more perfect, my computer went bonkers yesterday. I had to do… Read More ›
BLACKSTONE VALLEY BRIDGES
CFFC: Bridges What a perfectly timed subject! I have a whole new set pf pictures taken yesterday of “our” bridge. Of course everyone in Uxbridge considers it “their” bridge. It’s that kind of bridge. Plus, other Blackstone Valley bridges, most… Read More ›
SKETCHBOOK 41 – BRIDGE OVER THE BLACKSTONE CANAL IN FALL
I wanted to try something a bit more ambitious and I also really wanted to draw that bridge. It came out well enough, but I think I can do better. The problem is materials. Filling in all that water will… Read More ›
AUTUMN LEAVES – GARRY’S COLLECTION
FOTD – October 18 – Still Autumn Leaves Some of our pictures look very much the same, but then you can really see the difference. As a start, Garry is much more people-centric and if there are people around, he will… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
LET’S TAKE A WALK
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – September 23, 2019 It’s two years later and the leaves haven’t even started to get serious about changing. Maybe they will soon. The weather is right, though it is warmer than it used to be. I suspect… Read More ›
RUN RIVER RUN
A Photo a Week: Water Living in a watershed valley, there really is water everywhere. No ocean, but I don’t believe you can live anywhere in this valley and be more than a quarter of a mile from a river, stream,… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 