Man vs. Beast. (Or @#$%! We Hit A Deer!)

We Drove Home The Better Part Of 147 Miles With This Damage.

We Drove Home The Better Part Of 147 Miles With This Damage.

With our crazy schedules, it isn’t possible to visit Mom for the weekend. We have to drive up and back on the same day. So this Mother’s Day, that’s exactly what we did.

We had a really pleasant visit with my husband’s mother. We brought her irises from our garden, and a nice new vase to show them off in. We don’t get to spend as much time with her as we’d like. Mom is 91, and her health has really gone downhill since she became dependent on that damned scooter. But that’s a story for another day.

We stayed at Mom’s for as long as we could, then headed back home around 9:00 pm, stopping for a quick bite at the local sub shop before hitting the road.
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George E Owen Memorial Rose Garden

I have a passion for landscape photography. I don’t particularly like camping or hiking, yet I’d pack up and spend a weekend in the wild any time, as long as I can take my camera gear along.

So imagine my surprise when I discovered I had knack for photographing flowers.

I still love going out in the wild to take photos, but when I don’t have the time for a long excursion, I grab my camera gear and head on down to the rose garden.
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Leighann Dobbs Starts A New Mystery Series

Dead Wrong Is The First Book In A New Series From Best-Selling Kindle Author Leighann Dobbs

Having been labeled the "spelling nazi" by a number of my online friends, including Leighann, it only seemed natural to her to offer me the opportunity to to edit her latest book. I jumped at the chance. Three weeks later, I had the manuscript in … [Continue reading]

Plustek OF8200i: A New Toy-ool In My Photo Arsenal

My New Slide Scanner With Manual, Software And Carrying Case.

And it's about time! In the years that I was using the Canon Elan IIe, I took thousands of shots on professional grade color slide film. In the beginning, I paid a local printing company to scan them on their high-end flatbed scanner. It really … [Continue reading]

Chocolate Pearls Are Stunning In Rose Gold

Chocolate Tahitian Pearl Wave Hoop Coordinates: Earrings, Ring And Pendant

To be honest, I hadn't even heard of 'chocolate' pearls until a few months ago. I was looking for 'chocolate' diamonds over at Amazon when when I stumbled across a chocolate pearl pendant that was incredibly beautiful in 14K rose gold. After doing … [Continue reading]

Vintage Recipes From The 1920s

Cooking On A Wood Burning Stove Was Common In The 1920s

A Glimpse Into The Kitchen Of The Roaring Twenties A long, long time ago, I came to possess a cookbook that was published in 1927. It was a one-off publishing of a fundraiser entitled "Selected Recipes Chosen by The Woman's Board of The Jackson Park … [Continue reading]

Digital vs. Film Photography

Double Delight Rose, captured digitally in 2007 and on film in 2003

A World Of Difference In The Resulting Images The only way to get a true representation of the difference between a digitally captured image, and a film captured image is take the photos of the same subject at virtually the same time, with the same … [Continue reading]

Another Dozen Roses

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My Sony Cybershot Turned out to be a very good camera for closeup shots of roses and other flowers, with macro capability at the press of a button. The problem with changing from one camera to another--from film to digital, or point and shoot to … [Continue reading]