The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work. ~ Oscar Wilde One thing that makes nurturing my creativity hard is the difficulty in accepting that failure is necessary in the process of learning the craft, that the learning curve is messy and long, and the frustrations are endless. It might…
So I’ve been rather missing around here and it’s weird to sit and try to write the first blog post in a long while. It’s not like my life was wildly interesting during my break. Mostly I decluttered the house (in a big, big way), cooked, and read. I lost 40 pounds. Woohoo!!! Which…
WordPress has a special photo challenge this week, in which they pose the question: What inspires you to blog? Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post here in which I explored the reasons why I blog. But what is it that inspires me to keep blogging and photographing? Capturing Beauty I find beauty everywhere…
The photographer Dewitt Jones recently posted this on Facebook (at the end is his permission to reprint this as well as more information about Dewitt). When my photography is at it’s best, it takes me to a place of reverence. To that sense of eternity, to the place where the lines between me and the…
Living The Seasons 