I’m always surprised when strangers smile at me, even more so when they say niceties such as “how are you today?”. It happened again the other day. I wasn’t feeling too good and I had a tough morning working on a sticky problem. I went for my walk during lunch, really wrapped up in my…
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Sometimes I experience new things in life simply by being in the right place at the right time. In fall of 2011, a new bridge was put in for easier access to Brown’s Island in downtown Richmond (Virginia). I wrote about it here and posted a few pictures from that day. Ailsa, over at Where’s…
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This week’s photo challenge is geometry. Quintin Lake, of Quintin Lake Architectural Photography, designed the challenge and said: This challenge is about the shapes and rhythms that make up the geometry of our world. . . This could be the patterns of the natural world up close and personal, or the rhythm of your local buildings. So…
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These last several weeks have been unseasonably warm. I enjoy walking during lunch for my exercise and thought you might like to see Brown’s Island and the canal off the James River in downtown Richmond. This is the bridge I take across to get to the island, shown from the far end. Click here for…
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Today’s January Joy Dare is to look for a gift that makes you laugh, a gift that makes you pray, and a gift that makes you quiet. Laugh – I loved this post by Kate from Chronicles of a Country Girl. She titled it “Let the Good Times Roll” and it shows her dog rolling around…
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I was experimenting the day I took this picture. I loved the bias of the upper part of this bridge as it criss-crossed against the sky. Word for tomorrow – ALAS. If you prefer to work ahead, see the list for the week under “A Word A Day”. To see how others might interpret today’s randomly…
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