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Sunflower

Good morning, my peeps!  It is Wednesday.  It is dark (in my ‘hood) and I’ve been summoned by the Princess of Purple to play once again at her game of Friday Fictioneers.  How did she do this?  By using my photo, of course!  That sneaky wench!  Should you be inspired to write your own 100-word […]

Day Fourteen – Friday Fictioneers

“In fact, if you could forget mortality, and that is less easy here than in most places . . . you could really believe that stories change you, enliven you, even send you off: off to a different world; off from your troubles and problems; off to a place where you don’t feel your age, or […]

Last Request

The milkyway.

Silent Sunday – Starry starry night

Where did your name come from? I always hated my name when I was growing up. Why did my parents have to name me something so borinnnggg? Why couldn’t they have named me something more exciting, like Cleopatra? Or Leah? But no, instead, I had to share my name with multiple cousins. Larisa. So unremarkable. […]

What’s in a Name?

508th Airborne Regimental Combat Team Distinctive as Airborne itself, so are the dark, glistening jump boots of a paratrooper.  Troopers glory in their significance and only they know the secret pride when they glance down at their boots, polished like glass, and see in them the reflected valorous traditions of AIRBORNE _____ By: Cpl. Jim Ethridge Jump […]

Jump Boots – the Airborne Trademark

Color will always have a place in our hearts. Imagining a world without it seems impossible. But on the other end of the spectrum lies a side of photography that can change the perception of needing color: Black And White or Monochrome. Visit Anne, of Slow Shutter Speed to gain both inspiration and guidance for […]

Lens-Artists Challenge #265 -Black & White or Monochrome

 The day draws painfully long, my love without you in it The night a torturous silence, my love when you are not in my bed A meal for two, my love is now a punch in my gut and I cannot eat a morsel thank you, my love let me thank you for a […]

My Love

I walked along the Bedford Basin and I saw this Full Orange Moon Later walked upstairs from the window and I saw this Full Moon. It looks like a Cross.

Full Moon

“In fact, if you could forget mortality, and that is less easy here than in most places . . . you could really believe that stories change you, enliven you, even send you off: off to a different world; off from your troubles and problems; off to a place where you don’t feel your age, or […]

Last Request