Best Moments
- Sunrises, sunsets.
- I am infinitely amused by the deer that choose to sleep in our yard and then are put out when we drive down the driveway after dark. It’s like we run a deer B&B here or something.
- Turkey hen has been sitting on a nest, though none of them are fertilized, so we shooed her back to the coop. 17 eggs and one growling and hissing turkey hen.
- Early breakfast, sitting at the counter, of course.
- I found this collection of leaves on the steps beautifully perfect.
- The chill outside cut by hot chai and The Shins inside.
- Bourbon and photo-editing kind of nights.
- Fallen leaves and windchimes. (schwush-schwush)
- All the water drops and dew were frozen just as they lay this morning. It was brisk but absolutely beautiful.
- Warm foamed milk and cookies for dinner, because I’m an adult and I can.
- Feeding the catfish in the cold.
- Contrails arching all the way across the sky.
- One lovely Wednesday in early December, it smelled like dead leaves and chill and fire in a fireplace and of earth outside. And I was drunk on it.
- Donkey noses
- Brush 4.0
- Pure perfection this morning. Dewy, bright and not too cold.
- Sunrise and water droplets
Quote of the day:
“I forgot to brush my teeth this morning.”
“I forgot to brush my teeth for the last couple days. But it’s ok, I had some whiskey. That’s disinfected everything, right?”
- Low winter sunrise, the world sparkling in the frosty morning. As I walk, it shines like a million diamonds on the grass. It’s a muted, quiet morning, warm breath making fog, all the textures accentuated by the frosted glaze. The world crisp and bright, everything expectant and biding its time. (pics)
- Orange skies
- A pearl in blue and pink layers
- Last night, after we got home from a movie, I walked out into the night, no flashlight needed from the bright moonlight. All the stars were so crisp, the moon shining like daylight, it was absolutely magical!
- Another frosty morning
- Golden hour, amazing evening light.
- Shadows and brick
- Intersection
- Welp…Christmas cards never made it out again this year. That’s 36 years in a row now, ah well.
- When I’m laying in the bath and I can feel the tiny little bubbles skimming up my back.
- This “Peppermint Pig™ as aptly it was named, was cast of hard candy similar in fashion to candy cane and festive pink in colour. And while the pig is honored in Victorian holiday tradition as a symbol of good health, happiness and prosperity, these special “Peppermint Pigs”,™ unique to Saratoga Springs, New York, came to represent much more. After the holiday dinner, the Pig was passed amongst those gathered, each in turn giving the pouch a firm tap and sharing a tale of the past year’s good fortune. The delicious broken peppermint and warm memories were enjoyed by all in hopes of prosperity for the coming year.
- Spinning under the Zilker Tree
- Jackalopes!
- Heart shaped rock (shaped like an anatomically correct heart, that is…much more rare and interesting)
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- One of the many fat squirrels around here has taken up climbing the gum tree in the front of the house and eating the berries from it perched on the branches over the porch roof. All I hear all day is little, tiny machine gun tap-tap-tap on the metal roof as he spits the seeds out. He gets so indignant if I come outside to stare up at him while he’s eating!
- Johnson City lights
- I found bubbles in the pocket of the coat I haven’t worn in a year, along with the gloves I had thought I lost.
- Ivy crawling up a wall.
- Christmas eve sunset
- Christmas day sunrise
- Butter molded into a Christmas tree shape.
- Cats that find more enjoyment in the wrappings.
- The cat that covets the ham and reaches onto my plate with tiny little paws to steal it.
- Late night music listening and my color changing star pillow
- Buy one, get 11 free
- The Spanish oak in the driveway has decided today was a good day to drop the brunt of its leaves. I sat and listened to the slow fall, the crinkle crunch and the shwush of the leaves in the wind.
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Click to view- Meditation links: when you’re afraid of meditating, some of your distractions aren’t distractions,
- What happens when you take molten aluminum and pour it into a fire ant mound?
- The creepier version of the Dark Crystal.
- A short clip about artist and maker Zina Nicole Lahr. SO inspiring!
- This is exactly why I started doing the photo-a-day challenge earlier this year. I needed some way to rekindle the spark in my soul, find the joy in tiny moments, the beauty in the little things. I’m going to restart this again on the first, it was such a powerful and little thing for me. I got wrapped up trying to compose the perfect photo after a while, and forgot the sheer joy of looking at anything from a different perspective. My goal is to just step back to more simplicity, to take a photo for the sheer joy of it, regardless of if it’s compositionally perfect.
- Amazing photos of nature and dancers and colors.
- Haunted abandoned places. I used to pass Michigan Central Station every day on my way into work.
- Recipes: amaretto snowballs, refined-sugar free vanilla buttercream, superfoods hot cocoa (and the most adorable mug warmers), almond sunny seed crackers, gluten free oatmeal cookies, santa lucia buns, coconut oil fudge, egg/dairy/gluten free pie crust, plant based recipes, gluten free brownies, allergy friendly chocolate custard, maple oat sourdough rolls
- If Red Lobster disappears, it would make our Boxing Day Red Lobster tradition difficult, however here are some copycat recipes.
- Vegetable house?
- I do love kale, here is an interesting project of eating kale for 52 weeks.
- Christmas tinner: 3 course meal in a can
- Methuselah Grove
- Dharma Talks by Tara Brach.
- I was talking to someone how most of my photos these days are with my iPhone because it’s what I always have on me. It takes some pretty good photos, but it cannot do everything my Nikon can do and when I’m serious about getting a good shot, I’m going to go to the Nikon. But for instant gratification, short timeframe or not really knowing what I want, the iPhone works pretty good as a point and shoot substitute. Article about iPhone sunrise/sunset shots
- Slightly NSFW, but how attitude and confidence changes everything.
- Ass jokes never get old
- Optical illusion! His head is following you! Oh, wait…
- Amazing street art!
- Kenzoku: “family” and friendship.
- The Winter Circle
- Giant true-color photo of the night sky
- Johnny Cash Cadillac from “One Piece At A Time”
- Plant some flowers the macho way: from the end of a shotgun
- Maps of the seven deadly sins in America
- Rays that jump out of the water
- Back in the day, I remember being in love with Zita Marie Evensen‘s poetry as well. I have journals where I had copied down some of my favorites and I too have wondered what became of her.
My favorite which has stuck with me 20 years later, I always filled in that scene, and wrapped a story around the idea.
“Could I hold a snowflake with bonfires in my mind?”
- 21 unexpected ways to say I love you.
- Frozen bubbles!
- Longest days and the December solstice
- Environmental art
- Attitude of Gratitude and children
- Things are prettier covered in ice
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- Reuben Wu is trained as an industrial designer, works as a DJ, is a member of the band Ladytron and is also a great photographer. While traveling for his music gigs, he’s able to shoot incredible landscapes all around the world. Reuben photographs landscapes with analog cameras and different types of film.
- Photograph of the night sky from Galway, Ireland.
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