Photo Assignment #5 – Monochrome

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It’s been a busy week. I’ve been away doing training again. So there’ve been no posts this week although there are ideas rolling around. They’ll come later. But first, photography. Don’t want to fall behind. I’ve made one decision in … Continue reading →

Photo Assignment #4 – Green

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For this assignment, we were told after the fact that no plants were allowed. However, since I’m not yet submitting anything to the Digital Photography School for consideration, I’m ignoring that. Not that they’re the only pictures I took. What’s … Continue reading →

Howie, Terry and Me

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Most Sundays at noon you are likely to find me in the most unlikely of places… parked in front of the television watching Fox, a network I generally hate, loathe and despise. Except when it comes to Howie, Terry, Michael … Continue reading →

Guest post – On Feeling Sad

Sweetie came home yesterday perplexed. The post below grew out of our dinner conversation as he tried to make sense of his day. On a couple of occasions in my life I have been depressed. I did not seek help … Continue reading →

Photo Assignment #3 – Blue

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The Digital Photography School’s assignments for the month of January are focussing entirely on colour. This week, it’s blue. Here goes: Alright, so I’m cheating right off the bat. I was supposed to take photos this week. This one was … Continue reading →

Photo Assignment #2 – Yellow

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In my quest to develop my photography skills, I promised in a previous post I would take a picture of something yellow. And so I did. (Photo Assignment #1 was in said previous post.) Some were taken on the weekend during my … Continue reading →

Ten Minutes of Gratitude

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Sometimes, loose threads have a way of weaving together in unexpected ways. I found this in my email this morning, sent to me by friend Jane. It’s a TedxTalk and it seems an appropriate follow-up to my post of yesterday, An Ironic … Continue reading →

An Ironic Contradiction in a Noisy Little World

What a weekend! I’ve spent the past two days in my version of geek heaven. I’m really just a junior geek… I know just enough about computers and technology to get myself into serious trouble. But I’m addicted to the … Continue reading →

A Fresh Start

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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.                                                              J. B. Priestley Fresh page, fresh start. Seems appropriate for a … Continue reading →

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading →