BOKEH – THE SHARP & THE SOFT OF PHOTOGRAPHY My son brought home another orchid. I think that is it for room on my indoor garden table. I wish I could find another window, but this house isn’t set up… Read More ›
Weekly Photo Challenge
PHOTO CHALLENGE: THE MAGENTA ROSES WITH RED AND SCARLET – Marilyn Armstrong
Photo Challenge: The Magenta Rose Oddly enough, I actually took pictures of roses in the floral party of our grocery store. I haven’t done that in a really long and I carefully took pictures of all the roses. Pink, white,… Read More ›
PARKS BY A RIVER – Marilyn Armstrong
Weekly Word Prompt: Parks We live in the Blackstone Valley Historic Corridor, so basically, we live in a park. It’s one level below a national park, but without the funding (such as it is these days). The good news is… Read More ›
BLOOMING – Marilyn Armstrong
WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: BLOOM I remember being 16 and blooming, but I didn’t know it. I thought everyone else was more beautiful than I was. It took me years to realize that there’s beautiful and there are other kinds of… Read More ›
BLACK IS THE NEW BLACK – Marilyn Armstrong
Bi-Weekly Photo Challenge: Black I remember the year that dark brown was the new black and another year when orange was the new black. Personally, I’ve always thought black was the new black and more than half the clothing I… Read More ›
SMILING WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – Marilyn Armstrong
Weekly Photo Challenge: Give us a Smile Smiling pictures? I’d like to say it’s a specialty, but to be fair, birds, dogs, and squirrels aren’t big smilers. Since they constitute the majority of my pictures, I have to resort to… Read More ›
THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THE VALLEY – Marilyn Armstrong
Weekly Photo Challenge: Peaceful I live in a peaceful valley and I hope it remains peaceful. We’ve got our share of troubles. Not much work, relatively poor as places to live go. But we live in beauty, sometimes so much… Read More ›
BLUE – Marilyn Armstrong
Weekly Photo Challenge: Blue
THEY CAME WITH WINGS – Marilyn Armstrong
Weekly Photo Challenge: They Came With Wings
FENCES: A WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – Garry Armstrong
Weekly Photo Challenge – Fences I picked up a camera and went out to take pictures. Which is when I realized the battery needed changing … so I went back in and got a fresh battery. Then I took some… Read More ›
WEATHER OF THE SEASON – Marilyn & Garry Armstrong
Weekly Photo Challenge: Advent Weather Sometime around now or next week or tomorrow, we usually get our first serious snow. The cold weather is coming … today was a warm, rainy fluke. So here is my advent weather, a gallery of… Read More ›
HEY HO – THE DUKE – Marilyn Armstrong
THE GRAND DUKE OF OUR ACRES Weekly Photo Challenge: 4-Legged Friends We got him by accident. We kept him because he needed a home. We thought eventually, he’d calm down. He has not calmed down. He has not become mellow. He… Read More ›
A RIVER OF MAGICAL PLACES: WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – Marilyn Armstrong
Weekly Photo Challenge: Magical Places The Blackstone Valley Historical Corridor is a series of connected parks in and around the Blackstone River Valley. There are dozens of little, medium, and large parks. The parks surround many dams, ponds, and lakes. There… Read More ›
HALLOWEEN – A WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – Marilyn Armstrong
Photo Challenge Halloween
MEN AT WORK – Marilyn Armstrong
Weekly Photo Challenge: People at Work And finally, the big guys — my son and his friend Dave — came and installed the door. It took months between one thing and another, but it got done. Phew. Men at work,… Read More ›
IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TRUTH IS, TRY ART – Marilyn Armstrong
Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art We have tons of art in the house. I like to think we also have a fair bit of truth, but if no one seems able to define truth, how in the world do you… Read More ›