Monthly Archives: August 2010

~o:> Charming Oddities

Posted on August 31, 2010 by K

Odd thing #1:  the bug. Dentist Kris found this thing in his yard.  He was mowing (mowing what?) or trimming or something, and – I don’t even know how he found it.  I think it’s an alien.  This is, after-all, … Continue reading →

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~o:> See How They Grow

Posted on August 30, 2010 by K

First, a message from our sponsor: The last of the storm sky shots.  I used one of these for the header.  This is where I am the saddest that I didn’t check the ISO rating on the camera – where … Continue reading →

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~o:> Slight Distractions

Posted on August 28, 2010 by K

Notes for anyone coming from Creative Friday – this is mostly about photographs and what you can do with them.  Feel free to skip through the pictures if you like.  I was visiting my daughter in her new New Mexico … Continue reading →

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~o:> Being there: Santa Fe pt. 1

Posted on August 25, 2010 by K

Okay.  Not really there yet.  But close.  Real close. First of all, this is the self portrait I favored.  Not so white now, are they??? In the mountains of Colorado, we ran into this. And M shot this.  Then we … Continue reading →

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~o:>Go, dog. Go!

Posted on August 24, 2010 by K

It is the last gasp of summer.  How odd.  How short.  And my eye is kinda twitchin’.  We are once again, or maybe for the first real time, empty nesters; M went off to college this morning.  Right after he … Continue reading →

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~o:> Home again

Posted on August 17, 2010 by K

There will be pictures of the desert and the sky.  And of Gin’s family and house – and sky. But for now, having covered ground it would have taken a wagon and team of horses a month to cover, Murphy … Continue reading →

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~A little less than the angels~

Posted on August 11, 2010 by K

A long, odd day of problem solving.  And here is a matter of business I have to cover right away: my friend, Linda, is doing a giveaway on her blog, and I want to win it.  And I get more … Continue reading →

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A day of rest~

Posted on August 8, 2010 by K

Not an auspicious beginning, this morning was.  The kitchen clock, a pendulum Regulator that I bought on a Presidents’ Day sale the year before G and I were married, has presided over our days now for over thirty years.  You … Continue reading →

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~o:> All day Saturday

Posted on August 3, 2010 by K

On Friday, Chaz announced—in capitals and on Facebook—that she wanted to BAKE A TINY CAKE.  The ensuing discussion was neither deep nor particularly philosophical (read: silly in the extreme).  It inspired in me, nonetheless, visions of miniature slices of a … Continue reading →

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~o:> oh, camping, oh

Posted on August 1, 2010 by K

I think of myself as growing up in a Big Camping Family. I have slept on the ground with only an ancient sleeping bag between me and the rocks, on bouncy cots that turn over if you’re not careful, on … Continue reading →

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