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A Rocky Beach Reflection
The beach is rocky and I find a little ledge to sit on close to the water. My anticipation of a sunset precedes the actual event so I have lots of time to think. I’m alone except for a half dozen...
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Beauty Thru My Lens: A Rose
I did a little cropping to make the composition more pleasing, and then I stared, wondering how something that has such a short life could be so beautiful. I am thankful that I have sight – to see my...
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Let Her Be
Grandma said, “Let her be.” I heard this, from the time I was very small, it gave me permission. The messages to be good, to be quiet, to settle down, to stop it, and to not do that were also heard...
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A Road Not Taken
I am drawn to paths and lanes, and absolutely can’t resist going down a dirt road in Michigan. When our family was young and we camped in the Upper Peninsula, way up north of Houghton and Hancock, we...
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Silent Sunday: A Penny for Your Thoughts
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The Landscape of Aging
If you look at a few of my posts, you might be able to learn who I am – at least pretty close. I don’t have any hard evidence but I believe what catches our eye, what we find interesting, reflects our...
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Nice & Easy Does It
What a hoot watching ducks walk on ice. It seems like certain conditions call for adaptations from all of us. Even funnier was watching birds fly in for a landing on ice. All things considered, a...
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Aging with Character
This one stopped us. We picked yesterday for our weekly photo shoot because it was the only day that promised sunshine. Reality required that we delay departure for an hour because of icy roads and...
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Beauty Thru my Lens: The Artist
I did my usual Tuesday morning photography outing to the Naples Botanical Garden yesterday. They open at 8:00 for members and for dogs who enjoy walking their owners in a beautiful setting. When I...
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A Strange Thing is Happening on the Way to Old Age
Turning 70 seems to have created a change in my thinking about life and death, and especially life until death. Maybe this is because I seem to be more aware of my mortality. My faith in the Christian...
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Have the Garden Catalogs Arrived?
Back when I had sufficient energy, I loved creating my flower gardens. When the flower catalogs arrived I would pour over them, looking for flowers that I thought would thrive in my garden’s unique...
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Evening Tide
We went to the beach to see the sunset last Sunday along with just about everyone else in town. There is parking on every street that ends by the Gulf of Mexico beach but we had to drive well north...
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Spring is Different Now
Spring seems different now…now that I’m in the fall of my life. Or am I in the winter of my life? That seems so bleak. I don’t think I’ve heard any lyrics about being in the winter of our lives – must...
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Good Friends
Good friends are those you can call to say you have some pie left over from a gathering the night before and they eagerly accept an invitation to a light supper of cheese and wine – and rhubarb...
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A Post For My Husband; The Father of Our Children
Some things work better with two. Yesterday we celebrated Father’s Day by having dinner with our son, his soon-to-be wife, and her two young-adult children from a previous marriage. We had a great time...
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Patch, Patch, Patch
A few years ago, friend Barb said that old age is a process of “patch, patch, patch.” We weren’t that old when she said this but I laughed because I was old enough to begin feeling it. Now I really...
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Down Dirt Roads: Wooden Silo
JB had urged me to get some photographs of the wooden silo on Henry Road in northern Jackson County so Julie and I put it on our agenda for last week. It felt like an exciting find for us, but I also...
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First You Say You Do; And Then You Don’t
She bent over to pick up some dirty clothes on the floor and he laid his hand on her rear. It was a gentle touch and he let his hand linger into a caress, before he turned and walked away. They had...
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Beauty thru my Lens: Horse Barn
Old Horse Barn outside Owen Sound Ontario. How elegant it is. I am sitting here wondering what my mind sees and depicts as elegant – maybe the architecture, or the coloring. There is detail that...
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Thankful after Thanksgiving
It is easy to sit down on Thanksgiving Day and make a list of what I am thankful for – but I felt almost repulsed by that exercise this year. Besides, after 50 years of adulthood lists they begin to...
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