Looking Towards the Sun
Life is a collection of little lives and each day needs to be spent finding beauty.
One Spot Challenge
Week 1 of The Month of Multiples shows what happens when I stand in one spot at the botanical garden.
Taking a Walk
My camera is a great excuse to walk and to observe nature. Not every picture is worthy for later processing, but a surprising number are pretty good.
Virginia Is For Lovers
This summer there are LOVE signs popping up all over the state of Virginia. It's a shout out to the state theme, "Virginia Is For Lovers".
Missing: A Personality
I seem to have lost my personality recently. My “part-time” job has been fairly high stress due to some turnover and I’ve been working a lot of hours to transition, streamline, and meet tax due dates. I’ll get those hours back, but not for a while. If you want to discuss Excel functions and formulas,…
Looking Up From the Ground
I become so focused on my photography, that sometimes I forget to look up and just enjoy the moment. The other day, I was intent on photographing this robin while I was at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens: What appealed to me were the rich colors of the feathers on its back, as well as…
It’s Beautiful Everywhere
One great thing about spring in Virginia is how pretty it is everywhere. I thought I’d show you what I see as I’m driving around! A word of warning though – these are not drop dead gorgeous shots. They can’t be. The locations are bad and on the days I shot these, so was the…
A Late Winter Walk
The world is but a canvas to the imagination. – Henry David Thoreau A few days before the official start of spring, I took a walk at one of my favorite places, the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens. The shadows were lovely, even though the trees are still bare. The crocus were in bloom – just…
The Joy of Common Work
. . . Do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. – Robert Lewis Stevenson It’s easy for me to get caught up in wanting everything fancy, just like I think everyone else has it. But…
Living The Seasons 