Valley of Fire

Vineyards in the fall........ah!

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace

As I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

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Pastures Of Plenty

Just spent the last 6 days in the wine country in Sonoma County California.  As we were leaving town we stopped to enjoy the breathtakingly beautiful vineyards along a wonderful country road.  This is the first time I've been there when the leaves on the vines were changing.  Wow, I could have spent the whole day photographing what I saw...maybe next year!

Delicious autumn!  My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.  ~George Eliot

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Sidewalk Sale

I love watching talented people enjoy their craft! 

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. 

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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Grey Gardens

I've always love the bougainvillea in California.  Even up close they look like paper.  I like the texture and shapes they create in black and white.

Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature

Gerard De Nerval

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You Make Me Smile

What are little boys made of?  Well, this one is made with a beautiful face and eyes to match.  This is one of my collage experiments.

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Oh, What A Night

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!

“‘It is now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to the world. 

William Shakespeare

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Graveyard Girl

I have a sneaky suspicion that I'll be seeing a lot of Lady GaGa's at my door this Halloween.

"They can't scare me if I scare them first."

Lady GaGa

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