It’s once again time for After-Before Friday, hosted as always by Stacy Fisher over at Visual Venturing. To see other pictures from ABFriday, click here. It’s always fun to check and see the many variations that happen each month! On the left is the original photo;…
Winter has settled in here in central Virginia and it’s finally gotten cold enough to wear Grandma’s fur coat. A fat girl in a fur coat looks even fatter yet, but I was the grandchild who fit best into her lovely mink coat. My favorite boy toy and I were…
What is winter? There’s the usual of course – snow, cold & ice; hot tea & hot soup; turning on the gas fire at night. But one thing that signifies winter to me above everything else is the return of Orion in the night sky.…
I got off work early enough on Saturday to take a walk at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens. Not too surprisingly, the gardens were fairly empty. The temperatures have dropped considerably and the wind had a bite to it. I hadn’t intended to wear my winter…
What a week! An earthquake on Tuesday and a hurricane on Saturday. Everything is fine – we lost power for about 12 hours but had no damage from that or the wind & rain. Here’s my post for today: The first freeze in the fall is…
Growing up and living in rural areas means having well water. I know there are places with good tasting and safe to drink well water, but I didn’t have that. My childhood home had water that stunk like rotten eggs – yep, sulfur – and…
During my daily walks this winter, I often searched the stark naked tree branches for interesting patterns to photograph. The lack of leaves revealed this little beauty one day. I loved that I got a pretty sky, shallow depth of field, and sharp resolution to make…
One of my goals this year has been to write more diligently in my daily journal. One thing that helps me to do this is to get up early and go to Cracker Barrel for a quick breakfast and then sit there to write for…
In 2003, an overnight fire in Omaha gutted the old Butternut Coffee Factory that was being converted into high-end condominiums. The condos were only weeks away from occupancy and no one died. The fire went up fast – as it turned out, the contractors doing the…
