If Life Gives You Gandy…
You make lemonade. No, that can’t be right. Truth is, I don’t know what you do–especially for the first hour of the day, starting of late around 4. This is about when we get up anyway, but during that hour…
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Three Dog Night
It was the first time Gandy got me up THREE times instead of the usual ONCE. She has not reached the point where she can do both jobs with one visit outside in the wee hours. She only remembers she…
Eight Pounds of Pounce
Posts promise to be fewer and shorter than usual. We are under siege. The source is a bipolar pup, half barracuda, half Miss Congeniality, a chimera of canine good and evil. The snickersnack of the jaws: how to divert over and…
Jack Frost and Fred, First Thing this Morning
Just in with 50 chilled shots of the early frost in the pasture grasses. This kind of shot won’t be possible after the first wet snow takes down the frail stems and lacy tops that hold frost crystals so beautifully.…
Good Views, Bad Views
I don’t think I’ve posted this image from Week One with the iPhone. The shot is from down near the “Green Hole”–a plunge pool near where Goose Creek meets Level Bottom Creek on its way to its confluence with Bottom…
Widgets, Gadgets, GeeJaws and Thingies
Another day, another way to share my where. As I say in an upcoming essay, we are increasingly becoming Homo photographicus. This morning, for a buck from the App Store, I downloaded the 360 panorama app I was so eager…
From Harvest to Harvest
I found a document I created when What We Hold In Our Hands: a Slow Road Reader first went to print in 2009. it gives a few-words summary of each of the 80-something pieces. You might enjoy giving the pdf…
NEXRAD on Coles Knob Gets a Bath
What the heck, I thought Thursday morning as I headed off for errands in town. Might as well toss the camera bag in with the recycling and give it a ride. Most of the time when I do this, the…
Who Are You?
It seems a simple enough question and on Thursday night at the Blacksburg library, in light of the fact that most people there will not know me, it seems fitting to tell them who I am. And so I began…
Which is YES!
The note cards order is done; waiting now for proofs, edits, and final details. I should have a full inventory of 50 to 75 of each item available for April and May events. The “Altamons Trees” image is the second…
Changing My Image
THAT feat might not be possible. But I CAN change my IMAGES–in print. So, I’m up to my elbows in alligators–getting an order ready for Wordsprint like I told you about the other day. I’ll have 15 of the original…
Mid-Winter Make-over
I want to do what I love and get paid for it. How novel and crazy a notion is that? But that imagined outcome will require changes–some minor, some major, and most sooner rather than later in an economy where…
Fish or Cut Bait
If I save 20% up front, I make that much more down the line–which isn’t much, even then for the photo note cards. They are not high-profit items. But Wordsprint is offering a short-duration 20% discount. I have to decide…
A Mill By Any Other Name
A stroll in the December archives finds this image [click to enlarge] from early December, 2007. I had been manning a book table at the Chateau Morrisette Winery Wine Club members banquet (what a nice invitation, I met lots of…