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In My Own Backyard

It’s late October and the trees in the neighborhood are looking like late October. Though much of the landscape is looking barer and duller with the fallen leaves, I found a few patches of bright color In my own backyard. Though I hate to see the leaves fall, I do love it when the wind blows and leaves fall like rain, blowing and drifting in the wind. This morning I made photographs out my windows of the changes I see after just a few short days. It astonishes me how quickly the leaves fall at the end of the season. Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Every Little Thing

It’s been a week of ups and downs for me. And towards the end of this week I’ve been repeating a refrain over and over again in my mind. It goes… Every Little Thing will be all right. Every little thing will be okay. It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes I like to glide along through my daily life focusing on and generating what one might call positive feelings — joy, gratitude, wonder, appreciation. But I am discovering Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

In This Moment

This is what the pond looks like this morning, In this Moment. The colors are a little more subdued than they were just a few days ago. But there is no ice on the pond this morning, the grass is still green, and there are still leaves on many of the trees around the pond. The sun is shining in a cloudless sky and we’re expecting a nice weather warmup this weekend. Everything changes — every moment, every day. And sometimes things fall apart just a little bit or they fall apart spectacularly. Some days are like raking leaves in Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Raining Leaves

This tree across the street from our house was covered with gold/yellow leaves yesterday morning. By noon it looked like this. For a short time it was Raining Leaves as the wind carried its leaves swiftly to the ground. The pond  behind our house was completely covered with a skim of ice in the early morning yesterday and today. It saddens me to see that the season is turning inexorably towards winter. Fortunately the weather forecast here is for a few days of warmer weather at the end of this week. And even today it is warmer than yesterday. Bittersweet Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Flower Photography

Brrr! It’s cold and blustery outside today. Time for some indoor Flower Photography I bought a bunch of white alstroemeria flowers last week. And I’ve been photographing them on and off for days. I love these simple easily available flowers. They last a long time and when I look closely at them I always see a dancing grace in their petals and stems. Over the past few days the flowers have drawn me in to study them over and over again. Then take a break from whatever else I was doing, put the camera on my tripod, and move in Read more…

By Marilyn, ago