Yeeha. My camera is not broken. Ken took out the can of air, a pen knife, and braced himself for shocks and cleaned out the grains of sand wedged in the focus. It works like a charm. I’m back in bidness. Oddly, it’s been so many days since I used the thing, that I forgot [...]

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The ugly-(or perhaps just bizarro) ear candling has been a source of endless peace in my house. Whenever I need a pick me up, I just stare at this picture of these two people with very white teeth, happy faces, a pie tin, a candle made of finest beeswax, and a vaguely Star trek or [...]

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Yesterday, I had five kids in my care. I’m very proud of this, because I managed to stay cool all day, feed them, take them out to a play group, and keep them in peripheral vision at all times while in a public place. I guess women have been doing this for many eons, [...]

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Check out these miniatures Fi made. It’s her tiny not-back-to-school world. The pencils are made of toothpick bits. She’s really in to making this stuff now and has added blueberry pie, a table and a wedding cake to her pile. This is how the whole month of August has been so far, full of projects. [...]

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Mmmm…we bought the green ones and sauteed them in olive oil and garlic and tossed it with pasta. I’m already starting to lament the loss of the farmer’s market in the next month or two. How dull it will be to eat tomatoes that have been chemically ripened and possibly genetically modified. See my sister’s [...]

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Even Rescue Heroes need a break sometimes, let alone us mortals with normal sized feet.
Last week,there was my serendipitous birthday outting. A month or so before my birthday Ken gave me a CD and told me he couldn’t wait until then to hear it. It was Polyphonic Spree. I put it on and immediately [...]

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This is just one of a series of unfortunate butterfly shots by me, but…
Do you recall the July 5th photobloggin’ contest I boldly set up? Well, today is the day of reckoning.
And the winner is Nina of Nina Turns 40. Here is her fabulous entry. Extra points for baring her legs and risking the [...]

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Hey photbloggers! Deliberations are under way. The winner will be announced later tonight. Tune in later.

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Today I turned 37. I don’t tell you this for sympathy really, because nothing you say can help me be 29 again. Something my mom recently did has taken me back a bit though. She visited and gave me a stack of letters I had written her the year I lived in Germany as an [...]

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Today, just before I left the house to go grocery shopping by myself, I took my camera out of my bag and thought briefly about taking it along. Then I thought, “I’m just going shopping! What if I turn to look at radishes and someone steals it? What intersting thing could I see there anyway?” [...]

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