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September 11th
This photograph was taken during construction of the Twin Towers, circa 1972. If you are interested you can read a short story about the photograph…….click here. The photographer posted it on Flickr yesterday. Some days stay with you forever….birthdays, anniversaries of many kinds and historical events. You have specific memories that come to surface each time that anniversary comes around. What you were doing….where you were….. This poem always come to my mind on this anniversary……. From the 104th Floor A Poem by Leda Rodis When the plane hit the building rocked first to the right then to the left, and outside all the skyscrapers of New York seemed to…
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Hello World ~ It’s Been Awhile
Good time as any to dust this old blog off. 🙂 I – like many others across the globe – am practicing self isolation. Strange times require familiarity, doing things that I find comfort in. For me it can be different things on different days. On Thursday it was creating a new composite that had been rolling around in my head for some time. 🙂 The star of this new piece is my Survivor – dressed in her well worn formal wear, gas mask and no shoes. She walks unfamiliar landscapes – perhaps looking for hope. She will be part of a series I will be creating. Something In The…
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Tap….tap….tap….is this thing still on?
“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” Henry Miller Be back soon…….
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Happy 4th of July 2016!
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Outside My Window ~ 7.03.2016
Outside my window….is a cool 70°F with heavy cloud cover afternoon. Lots of humidity too ~ 87%. It poured rain this morning….all morning. The flood canal in back was well over the banks and the side yard was deep with standing water. The grounds are saturated now. I like how everything is so clean….so lush and green…after a rain. It isn’t raining now – hasn’t been for a couple of hours. It is about 2:50 Sunday afternoon and the skies look like they may not be finished with the rain. There is a 40% chance of rain in my area for the rest of the night. Unless there is considerable…
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Outside My Window ~ June 26, 2016
OUTSIDE MY WINDOW…is a relatively warm day. Current temperature is 76° with 55% humidity. It is a bit muggy outside which is why I am inside. It would probably be a good beach day though. I haven’t been to the beach in a while though….I can’t tolerate the heat and humidity like I once could….or maybe I don’t want to tolerate the heat and humidity any more. It sure does wear me down a lot faster since I have gotten older. Along with the heat we have blue skies, sunshine and some puffy clouds here and there. I don’t believe there is a chance for rain today – or tomorrow…
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Outside My Window ~ 3.08.2015
Credits for the Outside My Window composite can be found here. Outside my window…is an amazing day! It is a far cry from last Sunday when it was cold, wet and still far too much snow was on the ground. At 1:00 we are sitting at 64° with sunshine and blue skies. Fabulous! There is snow here and there ~ mostly piles of snow that hasn’t melted ~ and I was a little surprised to see there are still some patches of ice in shady areas, although I bet they are gone now. Sunshine and warmer weather, oh how I have missed you. I’m definitely looking forward to spring. I’m…
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Outside My Window ~ 01.18.2015
Credits for the Outside My Window composite can be found here. Outside my window…is heavy rain and moderate temperatures. I woke up to 57° and cloudy skies at around 7:30 this morning. It may have dropped a degree to two since then but still not too cold. I have taken a lot of my plants outside to enjoy the rain this morning…they do so much better with rain water than tap water. I still have my rain barrels (I did end up going back and getting a second barrel a year later) that I use throughout the year for watering but taking them outside for their drink saves me time. This…
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Outside My Window ~ 01.04.2015
Outside My Window…is a unbelievably warm day and not at all like the photograph I choose as the background outside my window above. We currently have mostly cloudy skies and a temperature of 71ºF….yes, you read that right. A high of 76ºF has been forecast for today. Hardly what I would expect for January 4th. But don’t get too excited folks because we are going to drop about 30º for tomorrows high of only 46ºF and really get a jolt on Thursday when our high is only forecast for 28ºF. Crazy ass weather. We have been snow free thus far this winter and thunderstorms are in our forecast for today.…
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Outside My Window ~ 4.06.2014
Outside my window…is a cool late afternoon in southeast Virginia. Plenty of sunshine, blue skies but not quite as warm as it was for the past couple of days. We have been see-sawing this spring….it rains or snows one day and then it warms up only to cool down to an unseasonable cool temperature. The cycle has been running that course for several weeks now. I think it is safe to say we have experienced our last frost, but I’m still not putting the plants out nor planting any seedlings yet. It was 45°F when I woke up this morning and I don’t believe it has broken the low 50’s…