CMMC May Colors Forest or Dark Green In the northeast, it’s too early for dark green trees. You won’t see leaves that color until the end of June at the earliest. The deepest greens don’t show up until August. But other… Read More ›
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MIDWEEK MADNESS BLUES
CMMC – April Pick a Topic from my Photo Here’s the photo: I’ve got a few pictures 🤩
YELLOW OR PURPLE
CMMC April Colors Yellow or Purple I just happen to have some lovely purple orchids — and a few other purples to go with them.
THE BIG “D” – BEGINNING OR END
CMMC – March Alphabet Letter D at the beginning or end of a word My right hand and I have an agreement. I won’t do anything to strain it and it won’t keep going numb or, alternatively, throbbing. I can’t draw…. Read More ›
MIDNIGHT MADNESS GOES TURQUOISE
CMMC February Color Teal or Turquoise One of my favorite colors! The stone, the color of the sea in the Caribbean, and sometimes — in the right latitude — the sky.
“V” AS IN VALLEY – CEE’S MIDWEEK MADNESS CHALLENGE
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 ›
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 – 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 ›
THE DARK GREENS OF LATE SUMMER
CMMC – September Color – Dark Greens There isn’t a lot of hot entertainment here in the valley, so unless you feel compelled to drive into Boston — LONG drive, LOTS of traffic — you find yourself fascinated by the changing… 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 ›
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