Category: timely

Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your faceCaesar’s palace, morning glory, silly human race,On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,If the summer change to winter, yours is no disgrace

Listen to the arguments. Try to understand for yourself why they say what they do. Seek out multiple channels, as many viewpoints as you can tolerate. Then take a break from that. Try not to dwell on it. You’re informed, you have an opinion and can discuss it with others. Fine. So does everyone else.…

This was the day that we brought Sammy home from the shelter to live with us. Can’t say for certain, but I suspect this was the first time he’d ever run freely in the snow. He’s up on the couch now, sleeping.

This image is about color, but also nature. It could be argued that they are one in the same. Do well today.

This is one of those scenes that make me nostalgic for Colorado. I love a big valley in the mountains. We don’t get that here in Indiana. We have gullies. Nothing wrong with them. It’s just a matter of scale. In this image we’re looking northwest and can see US36 winding its way from Lyons…

Birthday party today and another birthday party next week. One is turning nine the other turns ten. I can almost take myself back to when I was nine and then ten. I see my room, my family, friend down the street, my school classroom. I had a radio. These kids have phones. I had favorite…

I went to visit Pat when he lived there. We rode the trains. Uptown, downtown, out of town. Seeing the sights. That day we went to the park. I imagined being there to see the gates, but we were a year or two late.

Four thousand holes in blackburn, lancashire. And though the holes were rather small. They had to count them all. Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the albert hall I’d love to turn you on.

In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains,On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,The good deeds a man has done before defend him.

To the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

This image from last month’s series on the garden flowers is a favorite of mine. Close-cropped, shape and shadow images are interesting to me. I like to use just enough filters in editing to erase the perfection of detail that modern digital sensors produce. I enjoy pictures where the perfection of detail is present and…

I’ve always liked a picture of a trail in a forest. In this scene the sun is breaking through to paint some light on the trail which makes it look like an inviting place to be.

I took this picture twenty years ago with my Olympus camera. That was back when I was documenting all the neighborhoods of Longmont and this particular one was called Prospect New Town. The houses were expensive and very close together. I guess if it were a summertime scene we wouldn’t see any houses, only a…

One of my favorite subjects is the Westwood Branch Basin Forest. It’s on the west side of the condo and we are its caretakers. There is always a downed branch, a fallen tree or an overgrown wild honeysuckle or grape vine that needs cut up, cut down, chopped down, burned up or otherwise cleaned up…

Spent the day on the water yesterday, feeling a bit of sunburn this morning but it was worth it. Clouds break up the sunlight now and then on an all-around perfect day of weather for riding around on the lake. Today is the last day of July 2023. Always my favorite summer month, this year…

I call this image peak summer in Indiana. This lawn and the buildings are part of the Wilbur Wright childhood home museum out near Hagerstown, IN. The museum wasn’t open on the day I visited. I was the only person there and I didn’t venture far from where I parked my car. I like the…

The power of the edit. I love this image. Starting with the subject, a custom control deck in a Peterbilt truck and then the editing to stitch four copies of the image together into one scene. I love the power and symmetry of it. I think about this as I read the rules for entry…

I stand in this garden season after season. Through the flowering summer and wilting fall, I stand tall watching it all. I brace against the cold winds of winter and get covered in snowfall. I’m the first to hear the robins sing announcing the return of spring. I stand in this garden and see it…

Surf rolling and crashing on the beach. I set the camera on continuous shooting mode which fires the shutter for as long as I press the button. This scene consists of fifteen individual images that were opened as layers in Gimp and then exported as a .gif file with the animation option selected. You can…

Every couple of years we go out to the Atlantic with all the family. I like everything about those trips. Among all the usual activities I of course take pictures. I was walking the beach, stopping to take a picture of each house along the way when a homeowner stopped me asking what I was…

I’m revisiting this scene of my neighbor’s tree because now it looks like other trees with its dark green leaves standing in summer burnt lawn. But here, fresh from its winter rest standing in the springtime lawn it looks beautiful with its pink and red flower display. I’m feeling a bit of summer burn myself.…