Tag: Words
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Reasons To Smile
A dusting of snow and watching Benedict Cumberbatch on Sherlock A dusting of snow and watching Jay Leno and Craig Ferguson on Lip Sync Battle. A dusting of snow and changing the calendar to a new month closer to spring and hopefully with fewer gray days. A dusting of snow and making your dog wear a silly…
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Fog – Fifty Word Story
The gloomy fog of disinterest that shadowed her waking hours escalated into a running nightmare of despair once asleep. A barbed wire fence blocked every escape and the endless violent swirl of branches drawing blood from her arms offered the only proof in her daily existence that she was alive.
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The Sky Is Crying
The sky is crying after being unable to see all the adorable chickadees flying around during the last four days of fog. As is the case when you see someone else cry, the eastern red cedar automatically began crying with they sky. The berry was holding it together and then the tears began to fall when…
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A Few Photos and Thoughts
The chances that I will enjoy a movie based on a book I loved reading is similar to the odds of having winter and spring in the same week. Amazingly both occurred this week with an ice storm and temperatures in the 50s and enjoying the movie A Man Called Ove as much as the…
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Mud-Luscious and Puddle-Wonderful
In the aftermath of a sheet of ice covering all of nature’s beauty, we are now left with a world best described by the wonderful words of E. E. Cummings compared to my choice of words for this melting wonderland in our yard, “the world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” The trees were raining melting ice and…
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Winter Leaves
There was beauty to be found everywhere in the aftermath of awaking to icy roads and no power and the realization that meant no coffee or a trip to Starbucks. Unfortunately, the fact that there would be no warm coffee after photographing this beauty was quickly forgotten and realized a little too late. If you…
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Shadow Puppets On The Moon
It could be the effects from the full moon last week, standing out in the cold for weeks or the celebration after the exciting Green Bay Packers win over the Dallas Cowboys, but for a moment while looking at these photos last night the shadows reminded me of a boy reading and Rocky shadow boxing.
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Hung Up To Dry
I’ll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky W. H. Auden – As I Walked Out One Evening
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