CMMC – January Alphabet Letter V anywhere in the word That “V” is the perfect letter for me because I live in a valley — the Blackstone Valley, hitherto known affectionately as “the Valley.” I think that means pretty much every… Read More ›
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge
MIDWEEK MADNESS PICK A TOPIC
CMMC – January Pick a Topic from my Photo The picture from which we are choosing: I’m going with trees — because we live in a woods and “trees R us.” Okay. I’m including on set of flowers just because.
MIDWEEK MADNESS AND THE COLOR IS WHITE
CMMC January Color White The two colors I find the hardest to get “right” are red and white. Red because the subtle variations in the color can be difficult to see and it changes depending on the light — especially between… Read More ›
MIDWEEK MADNESS!
CMMC December Color Your Favorite Color Orange is a great color. It’s one of those colors that looks good on me, whether it’s closer to rust-colored or flames. We had one year of orange Cardinals, but they have returned to red…. Read More ›
MIDWEEK MADNESS – A CLOSE UP CLOSEUP
CMMC December Close Up or Macro As it happens, I did some work on close up closeups yesterday, but by the time I got through picking out the best ones from the pack, I was too tired to do much… Read More ›
WITH AN “O” IN THE MIDDLE
CMMC – September needs an “O” in the middle of the word I feel like I’m being a lawyer when I ask, but “Where’s the middle?” when talking about a word that might be several syllables long. Does this mean any… Read More ›
NEW ENGLAND COMMONS
CMMC – AN AUGUST ALPHABET CHALLENGE All New England towns were built around a “common” area where originally, everyone was free to graze sheep and goats. Over the years, these green patches have lost the ungulates and gained a great… Read More ›
PICK A TOPIC
CMMC – June Pick a Topic from my Photo Cee suggests any of the following possible topics: This photo is of the Oregon Coast Possible topics coast, water, ocean, blue, teal, white, brown, rocks, waves, landscape, candid, people, family, etc. What else can… Read More ›
CLOSEUP OR MACRO – JUNE 2021
CMMC – June Close Up or Macro I do a lot of macros and closeups. Probably most of my work these days is one or the other, probably because I’m shooting indoors and it’s either birds of flowers. The first two… Read More ›
EE-I-EE-I, OH!
CMMC – April Letter E at the beginning or ending of a word A lot of things end in “E” but I don’t necessarily have pictures of them. Fewer thing start with an “E.” Mostly, I had to go a-hunting and… Read More ›
THE LIGHTEST GREEN IS ALMOST GOLD
CMMC – April Color – Light Green or Neon Green Nothing Gold Can Stay By Robert Frost – 1874-1963 Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden… Read More ›
BRIGHT RECTANGLES
CMMC – Bright Rectangles This is happily a really easy one for me because essentially, my whole house is a compilation of rectangles. From the picture window to the panels of the French doors in the dining room, it’s just one… Read More ›
CMMC – MARCH USING CH & CK
CMMC – March Alphabet Letters Ch or Ck in the the word How about three orchids, a Pileated Woodpecker, the Blackstone River and canal, a Black-Backed Gull and the mighty Chickadee?
CMMC – PICK A PHOTO TOPIC
So this is it. The Classic format is gone. It’s block only. My problem with this is that it does not properly display multiple photographs — and I can’t find the pieces of format for which I’m looking. Menus vanish… Read More ›
CMMC – ORANGE IS THE NEW ORANGE
CMMC – March Color – Orange Orange may not be the “new” black, but it is definitely the old orange. Such a great color deserves to stand alone and not be a new version of anything. So we can stop calling… Read More ›
CMMC – TWO As IN THE WORD
CMMC – Alphabet – Words with 2 Letter A’s I actually had to think about the spelling of each word, but eventually, I found five very varied photograph, each of which has at least two “As” in its title. I did… Read More ›
THE BLUE AND THE GREEN AND THE COLORS THAT LIE BETWEEN
CMMC – February Color – Blue-Greens Blue green is a better color for water in the west than it is here. I’ve heard it explain more than once, but I keep forgetting. It has something to do with sky color and… Read More ›
CMMC – CEE’S MIDWEEK MADNESS CHALLENGE – CLOSEUP!
CMMC – February Close Up or Macro Let’s see. I’ve got a lot of squirrel and bird closeups. Surely one of them will make the grade here. Hmm. I’m thinking. Can you smell the wood burning? Ah, yes. The squirrel. I… Read More ›
#CMMC – COUNTRYSIDE AND FARMS
CMMC – December Pick a Topic from my Photo So I was sitting here trying to pick out Christmas or New Year’s cards, wondering if I should send all my “below the equator” friends a summer Christmas card and send something… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 