Sidewalk Feast

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Or, How to Eat for Free Off the Sidewalks of Midtown
First you select something from the bread group, like this crispy pretzel.

How about a tantalizing ’sidewalk salad’ to go with that pretzel?

Of course you’ll want something to wash it all down with.

And now if you could just find some place comfortable to watch the big [...]

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Unexpected Gifts

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Or, Wake Up ~ Your Life is Calling

View from ‘my’ bedroom window at my parent’s house, 6:30 am Saturday October 3, 2009. Sometimes it pays to wake up early. What a gift. What a surprise. I love this little patch of heaven on earth. You can HEAR the breeze through the trees and [...]

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Darkness on the Edge of Town

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Or, Let the Record Reflect That Some Days the Picture is Dark
“Everybody’s got a secret Sonny ~ Something that they just can’t face ~ Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it ~ They carry it with them every step that they take ~ Till some day they just cut it loose ~ [...]

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The American West Through the Lens of a Point and Shoot

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Or, How a Cheap Camera and a Thousand Dollars Worth of Software Can Work For You

My parents are retired, but not retiring. As a matter of fact, they’ve begun to range far and wide. Over this past summer, they set off on what I’ve begun to refer to as their Grand Adventure. They recently purchased [...]

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My Daughter As Marie Antoinette

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Or, How to Help Your Family Time Travel

My daughter just celebrated her September birthday and I wanted to give her something very special.  She has a fascination with all things Marie Antoinette.  I have a fascination with all things ART and thought it would be a good opportunity to continue working on my digital mastery [...]

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Dangerous Beauty

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“The world breaks everyone – and afterward some are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway

Unexpressed love is toxic.  Happy Birthday Kate.

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Artist Indulgence

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Or, A Few of My Favorite Things

Yeah, I know.  EVERYBODY photographs flowers.  Well, everybody also breathes, but you don’t see me insisting that fewer of you do it, now do you?  I aim my camera at pretty things.  Call me shallow, but not for me, all that journalistic ‘we really should do something about these [...]

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