Recycling memories from Christmas past. Unique designs made from ornaments of yesteryear. With occasional detours just for fun.
It's been awhile, I know, so I wanted to pop in and let you know that I'm still here. Summer has come; the heat and humidity are a force to be reckoned with as is usual here in Richmond. It cheers me to look out this tiny old window in the kitchen as the crape … Continue reading Summer Interlude
2015 continues to be a roller coaster ride that I am strapped into whether I like it or not. It's been both scary and tedious, wrenching and uplifting, this ride off into the unknown. But whatever else it has been and will continue to be, it's chock full of life lessons that I've either got … Continue reading Slowly
Last week, I made the wrenching decision to withdraw from the Country Living Fair in Nashville this April. It was something I had thought about for a few weeks, often waking during the night stressing over it, but fought against as long as I could. Finally, I had to admit that it was the right … Continue reading Sometimes Life’s Not a Bowl of Cherries
This week's challenge is to show a container: something that contains something else. Since I am still going through my 4,000 images that I took in Europe this past spring, I thought immediately of the grand churches and cathedrals I visited. If ever there was a magnificent container, this would be it. Churches contain many … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Container
This week's challenge is "Contrasts." Contrast is one of the most important components of any photograph; changing the level of contrast totally changes the image. But for this week's challenge, I decided against employing contrast in the strictly photographic sense but, rather, to show a startling contrast between two images. In this case, the two … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: A Study in Contrasts