HIGH UP IN THE TREE – SQUIRRELS FOREVER Hugging the tree, this little squirrel is on top of his world, high in an oak tree. He’s overlooking my house, the whole woods. All the feeders. It’s winter and he wouldn’t… Read More ›
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UP IN THE AIR, JUNIOR BIRDMAN: DAY 4 – Marilyn Armstrong
UP IN THE AIR, JUNIOR BIRDMAN It’s such a little airplane and it’s 75-years old, too. But it flies. So high it disappeared into the clouds. For an hour, all we could hear was the occasional buzz of the engine…. Read More ›
BIRDS UP TOP – DAY 3 – Marilyn Armstrong
ON TOP WITH WINGS Whose on top? I think all the birds are on top! If you ask the birds in this picture, I’m pretty sure the Goldfinch win. The Goldfinches are all over the place and they always win…. Read More ›
ARCHITECTURE ON TOP OF THE WORLD – DAY 2 – Marilyn Armstrong
ON TOP OF THE WORLD I’ve taken a lot of pictures of this church. Since it was abandoned now about 10 years ago, it has been slowly dying of neglect. What a pity. it’s a classic clapboard New England church…. Read More ›
FLAGS AND FLOWERS BLOOMING – Marilyn Armstrong
On the 75th Anniversary of D-Day The cemetery is in the center of the town, across from the dam and just a hundred or so yards from the river itself. It’s up on a hill, so it never floods, even… Read More ›
BRIGHT SHINY DAY
SHINE |THE DAILY POST I am so tired this morning, I don’t feel at all shiny. Mostly, I feel like I need a few more hours of sleep. But, things to do today. Veterinarians to call. Coffee to drink. Dogs… Read More ›
IN MINIATURE, BEAUTY
Given “miniature” as a subject … and since, just last week I did a whole series of pictures of tiny carved Native American fetishes, this prompt certainly seems to be begging for more of those pictures. So here they are…. Read More ›
WHEREVER IT LEADS I WILL GO
Black & White Sunday: Leading Lines From Paula: “Leading lines are lines within an image that lead the eye to another point in the image, or occasionally, out of the image. Anything with a definite line can be a leading… Read More ›
THESE HONORED DEAD
The cemetery is in the center of the town, across from the dam and just a hundred or so yards from the river itself. It’s up on a hill, so it never floods, even when the rivers rush over their… Read More ›
PAINTERLY SUNFLOWERS
I love trying out various effects. Often my goal is to make a photograph look like a painting. If I were a painter, I would do it with a brush and canvas. Since I’m not, Photoshop provides interesting tools and Google’s NIK… Read More ›
ELEMENTAL BOUNDARIES
Americans travel a lot and we don’t give it much thought. We take our car and go. To work, shopping, visiting or just tooling around. Despite the high cost of gasoline, we are addicted to our personal vehicles. Addicted to having them… Read More ›
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE LIGHT – Marilyn Armstrong
Why do you take pictures? What makes you pick up your camera? Is it just the beauty of the scene? Or the smile on someone’s face? I’m sure it is different for each of us, but this morning, I remembered… Read More ›
