The Perfect Space

This is a photograph of frost on the ground.  I love the patterns that God creates.  You'll probably see this again when I use it for a background in one of my collages.

"May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door."

Irish Blessings quotes

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All Is Calm

I'm going to Colorado for Christmas.  This is the beauty I saw the last time I was there.

After a storm comes a calm.

Matthew Henry

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Landed

I couldn't believe I got seagulls on every post but one.  This photograph was taken in Bodega Bay, California.  It was a fairly cold November day.

"When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea."

Eric Cantona

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Rocks

Happy Thanksgiving!  Here's a photograph I made while in Colorado a few years ago on Thanksgiving Day when we got a very nice present of 8 inches of snow.  Coming from living in the desert for 25+ years, I had a ball going everywhere and making pictures!

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind

Samuell Taylor  Coleridge

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Winter

These photographs were made a couple of years ago in the desert of California.  This is a rare sight in the Antelope Valley.  What a nice treat!

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.  

Ruth Stout

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Fit to Serve

Well, today we'll serve something different!  I had a great time photographing these beauties!

"A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables."

Gertrude Stein

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Painting By Chagall

I was looking at some Photoshop blogs and somehow discovered a painting technique that I tried and loved!  I am inclined to enjoy some unusually strange stuff.  I think I'm going to try to do more of these....lol!

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Michelangelo

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