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• So Much Spring

  

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  Posted on 16 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Breaking Through

  

  Aha! My new (refurbished but looks new) laptop arrived, and I've been putting in time setting it up and downloading photos.Much of it seems to happen... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Signs

  

  of the season -- John's touching up the paint on the blue benches . . . The early solid yellow daffs are joined by these bi-colors . . . And Brer Snake is... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Excellent and Unfortunately All Too Relevant

  

  I am a serious consumer ofaudio books. I mentioned recently that I was listening to Michener's The Source-- such a good book but in light of all that's going... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Spring Shadows

  

  Oops! This was meant for tomorrow. Consider this Thursday's post. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Almost Spring

  

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  Posted on 11 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Five Bullet Points

  

  Dear Sen./Rep.________,I would like to know five actions you have taken in the past week to protect your constituents --veterans, educators, healthcare... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Tearing My Hair and Whining

  

  Arrgh!The tech woes continue. My laptop wasn't charging and the power cord didn't work. I got a new cord and it worked...for a few days and then it didn't. Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Morning and Evening

  

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  Posted on 08 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Book for Calder

  

  .My talented friend Louise came over to paint and showed me this charming series picturing her dogs Stokely and Pippi on a rabbit hunt. The book that it will... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Sunseeker

  

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  Posted on 06 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Soul Work

  

  As, one after another, I crank out my amateurish watercolors, I contemplate the joy of doing a thing for its own sake with no thought of 'monetizing' the work. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie's Rainforest Diorama

  

  Josie made the boa and the toucan and painted the scene. The artist's statement is Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Chasing Bubbles

  

  O I was attempting a picture of Josie from a photo and was reasonably pleased with how the face was coming. I left it unfinished to work on the bubbles and... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Shameful!

  

  I am incandescent with rage at the shameful treatment accorded Zelensky during the made for tv tag team/grudge match orchestrated by the White House. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Rabbit Rabbit

  

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  Posted on 01 March 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• My Window Garden

  

  Breakfast: six-grain toast with mango/jalapeno hummus and a white nectarine.And what is probably the last bloom of the amaryllis Claui's folks gave us which... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

  

  Ethan, my older son suggested this for me. It's a kind of dark comedy with a reliable narrator who constantly breaks the fourth wall to address his readers and... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• I Must Be Woke

  

  I've written before about Singing Wheels--the iconic textbook from my fourth-grade years. It's a kind of Eric Sloane for kids-- a reader-friendly look at life o... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Promise

  

  The first crocuses seem to me a promise--Spring is coming. Though there may be snowstorms and nasty weather yet, daffodils and tulips are on their way, along... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2025 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY