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You Capture–Real Life

The You Capture theme for this week was Real Life. I gotta be honest. Real life right now is a mess of blessings packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, poured into my lap. If I had to tell of one complete good year in my life, one full year of contentment, one full year of no pain or no suffering, … Read More

You Capture–Photographer’s Choice

You know how I love randomness, so here are my You Capture’s for this week’s Photographer’s Choice. Patches Glowing Sunset in our back yard

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. –Robert Frost

Icy Wonderland

There’s not much to say, I think the beauty speaks loud and clear. Black and Whites Tell me what you think of these sets. I’ve been playing around with a Photoshop action called “Old Paper” and I am totally in love with it. The first is a color photo converted to black and white with a little contrast enhancement. The … Read More

Rawhide Ranch

Phil and I are celebrating 10 years of marriage this month (and going on 15 years since we met in that traffic jam and shared our first kiss.) We booked a murder mystery weekend at the Rawhide Ranch in Nashville, IN (the famous Brown County.) We went two days early. I’m so glad we did, on Thursday we had the … Read More

Special Darling

I didn’t know Grandma Schalk wrote poetry. Poetry isn’t usually my cup of tea, but the poem I want to share today (and I’ll be sharing one tomorrow about Phil) have nearly done me in. I’ve cried more tears over these two poems than I care to admit. Grandma Schalk would have celebrated her 93rd year on this earth December … Read More