Sliver

Sweet Shrub

Wishing

A Year Ago Today

What were you doing a year ago today?

Bug

Foggy Night

Wreath

                  From the neighborhood...

Morning Commute

Decorations

My neighbor hangs ornaments in the tree in her front yard and they were so beautiful in the morning light today.

Under the Same Moon

I see the moon and the moon sees me. 

God bless the moon and God bless me.

I see the moon and the moon sees thee.

God bless the moon and God bless thee.

A Discovery

I love reading.


I love reading blogs.  There's wondrous variety out there in the interwebs.


Today I clicked a link that took me to Cold Antler Farm.  After you read the passage she wrote below, I bet you'll click the link and take the trip too.

Everyone out there enjoying this Wolf Moon? That's what the Almanac calls it. The November moon is a big bright beam out there, and the last few nights it has been so bright It cast shadows inside the farm house at night. Deer walking around the yard stand out like make believe things in the blue light. Folklore says the night right after the full moon is a time to prayer to remove things from your life that are negative, bad thoughts, fear, guilt, all of it. As the moon wains into dark it's supposed to carry those prayers home. I don't think it can hurt. Wolves after all, are very fast dogs. 


from Cold Antler Farm

Found

I am a collector.  

Pottery, ceramic chickens, magazines...and lately, things I find when I walk the dogs.  

Like what?  

Well, acorns.  And these lovely pineconey things that look like flowers.  Nuts from my back yard that the resident squirrel eats round the clock. I filled up a glass vase with those for some free fall decor.

 And, after some high wind on Friday, mistletoe.

Have you looked at a acorn?  Go get two or three from different trees.  They come in all shapes and sizes...and the acorns themselves have different patterns on them.  And the caps.  All that lovely texture on the outside, and more pattern on the inside.

Here's some mistletoe.  I loveLOVElove the color.  The texture, too.

Go walk your dog and see what you find.

Graphic Saturday

Yesterday I got this graphic image in my head of my house and the neighbor's house as I was bringing home dog 1.  (I've started walking them separately because then I get more exercise and they each behave better on a leash but more importantly we have some one on one time) Then when I came home with dog 2, I went and got my camera.

After a while, I noticed there were some graphic things to see inside too.

That is all.

Carry on.

Golden

Before the Rain

Abandoned Hotel

Lunch break

Magical

Part of becoming a good photographer is developing an eye.  One of the ways to do that is look at other's art - including other photographer's art.  Most of what I like to look at is from the 30s-40s-50s BUT there is a current photographer I love: Rodney Smith.  I read recently he only watches movies made before 1947.

I think his work has a magical quality - and some whimsy.

Zack Arias workshop

Great day.

Talented people.

Lots to digest.

Thanks to Zack's breakdown, lighting doesn't seem so mysterious or intimidating.  It seems accessible.  But it will take work.  Look forward to working on this.

Small Things

This is something small, a heart, right in a neglected planter at the bottom of the deck stairs.  

I'm about 2 weeks from a photography class and I am woefully out of practice.  I need to give myself some assignments, but I think the weather is going to make it some inside assignments at best.  Maybe I will sit down with my manual and my camera and at least know where everything is, even if I haven't used it in a while :)