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I think with this shot E completed the trifecta of summer images. Flip flops, fireflies ...

These look pretty strong and supportive. Makes me envious. My back, which I always t ...

We all have a camera bag of different lenses through which we see the world. I have to ...

Oh the days before iPhones. No talking and driving, or cleaning, or taking a walk, or ...

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening ...

Some days I could use a button like this.....especially ignite. Photo Data: f/4 – 2 ...

I saw them the other night as I drove home. The final sign that summer has arrived. ...

Meet Mason aka maymay or white furry freak. The white hair hides any gray so I someti ...

My "art" project for today. It's about as crafty as I will ever get. And I'm ok with t ...

Daisies...one of the top 10 things that make me happy along with chocolate, hot tea, m ...

Another random stranger. No better way to celebrate your upcoming nuptials then with ...

I have been in the need of some serious lightbulb style inspiration. I have never, not ...

“The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting ...

I now get an evening "farm" report. I'm not sure I've ever seen someone so proud of t ...

Last night I filled the prescription of fun that I wrote about last week. We truly ha ...

Today's gifts: 1. A gorgeous warm sunny day in the mountains. 2. Mason's bum knee ...

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ...

There was a time, when this place first opened, we would know everyone in the room. I ...

One side of our house is shaded most of the day. We built a raised bed along that sid ...

How often do you spend a evening laughing, taking great pleasure in silliness, gigglin ...

A bean trellis! My first ever. My grandfather used to make these. I have no idea how h ...

I sometimes forget the bodies of water aren't actually alive. They feel like living, ...

So this is where yesterday's stairs led. You couldn't see this view from the bottom o ...

Sometimes a climb is just a climb. You huff and puff your way to the top, sometimes g ...

E apparently installed a "new" window while I was at work. The best part is this wind ...

A few facts about ants: *There are more than 12,000 species of ants all over the worl ...

E discovered a new condo downtown today. It's a bit smaller and more colorful than mo ...

I have always had this romantic idea about living on a farm. I've also had the same i ...

A beautiful photo. I have no beautiful words. (Never thought I'd get to a point that ...

Sometimes while I'm at work a project happens at home. If I'm really lucky, it's fini ...

I had my eyes glued to the television as the sun set here tonight, watching the devast ...

E has been wanting to get a skyline shot of Asheville for several months. This is his ...

Wahoo! It's officially time to wear these. Not only wear them but kick them off and ...

I wonder how much of our lives we spend "sitting on the fence"? We can't decide, refu ...

Wild Goose Chase: a complicated or lengthy and usually fruitless pursuit or search. ...

So I had a business meeting or maybe it was a continuing education seminar with severa ...

He took a photo of an arch. I notice the door. He tells me how strong an arch is and ...

Good night room. Good night moon. Good night fear. You've interfered too much this ...

The left-overs from a celebratory dinner. Today was the second annual DINK-o- De-Mayo c ...

Check out our new neighbor. She managed this new construction without notice and appare ...

A sure sign that summer is near! And a reminder to be grateful for a husband who likes ...

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax ...

The architect calls this "deconstruction". I guess that's a polite word for demolishi ...

When I saw this my first thought was to write about how our window here is short and t ...

The view from downtown on a warm summer night. No need for a trip to a museum or night ...

My first reaction to this photo was "Oh my, so many possibilities!" Well actually tha ...

Here are the "boys" minus King Tucker. Yes there are four dogs and two people in this ...

My first show was in Atlanta at a small venue called Center Stages. There I saw one of ...

Sometimes he confounds me. What is there to say about a sandwich, especially at 10:30 ...

Doesn't it sometimes feel like your are on an never-ending bus ride. The route never ch ...

Wahoo! We made it to 100. Only 265 days to go! This cupcake was yummy deliciousn ...

In these days of day spas and "manscaping", it's sort of nice to still see these aroun ...

Today was a day for celebrating and even the cold rain couldn't dampen the warmth of fri ...

So it seems as if I have a unique love of taking pictures of plants and flowers. A love ...

These raindrops look so tiny and a bit unassuming. They certainly don't look like they ...

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most y ...

The soldiers of spring standing in formation. They appear like they are awaiting orde ...

The view from the sand trap. I wonder if this is an indication of how E played today? ...

" Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, ...

I wish that I could summon this intensity of focus when needed. I'm not sure I ever c ...

Well this time I know it's graffiti! I watched the "artist" create it. Interesting t ...

Tonight I will leave it up to the poet Mary Oliver. He puts his cheek against mine ...

Is this art or is this graffiti? I guess graffiti is art or some graffiti is art. Ar ...

These are really interesting flowers but I wouldn't necessarily want them in my little ...

Its late and the scribe is exhausted. I've got nothing pithy to add. Except when I s ...

I really wanted to go to Biltmore on Sunday to see the flowers but the sun went away. ...

This looks like it belongs in a storybook. One with a smiling family who have a surly ...

Apparently one of us spent some time playing around with Illustrator today. It is muc ...

I am finding the more interesting or complicated shots in this project are harder for ...

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, we ...

Look at the wildlife E and I spotted on our walk this evening. Can't you just hear hi ...

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" ...

Hinge Noun 1. A jointed or flexible device. (Flexibility is important.) Unhinge ...

This bolt looks strong. In the right hands, I'm sure it could be used to fix a variet ...

I don't paint. I can't draw. But I can color. A new box of crayons represents a rai ...

"He loves me. He loves me not." This is sort of how feel about this daily blog commi ...

This photo made me wonder about how many things I don't notice every day. What intere ...

We can wait here under cover. Wait until the time is right, until the finances are ri ...

Is it really the new 30? It all seems a tad ridiculous. I'm sure we look younger tha ...

So I said "Another flower? I love flowers but I only have to much to say about them." ...

I really like this photo though I'm having a mighty struggle coming up with something ...

Meet the prosperity frog. He was a gift from a friend awhile back. The frog, apparen ...

I did not spend any part of this Good Friday at church. I did spend some time contemp ...

No parking. No speeding. No trespassing. No comment (which usually means there are ...

One of our few remaining pansies. It survived the squirrels and this crazy on-again, ...

As noted in a previous post, my relationship with technology is tenuous at best. I'm ...

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ― Virgini ...

E takes interesting shots of things and great shots of dogs but people...not so much. ...

This and learning to speak a foreign language are two skills that I wish I had been fo ...

We filled the bird feeder recently. We have had a wide variety of feathered friends s ...

Well I wish my mood paralleled E's apparent optimism today. But it doesn't so I'm lea ...

Have you ever noticed some people like to build fires just so they can run around and ...

A shiny new toy is so exciting. Well in this case it is an old toy made shiny anew. ...

It's late. I'm tired. I'd rather be drinking this than writing about it. Photo Dat ...

I don't think that I focus too much on what the grass on the other side of the fence l ...

It was 70 and sunny yesterday but that doesn't matter much to Tucker. This spot is hi ...

Oh the yellow light. Such a symbol of indecision. Do you go or stop? Sometimes it's ...

Well doesn't this guy appear happy. We have been out celebrating our friend Matt's bi ...

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a c ...

I remember noticing in old movies the fancy glass decanters.  Some hunky actor would t ...

It rained last night. Rain has become like a lullaby to me in recent years. When you ...

This was one of the members of the Sunday choir I listened to this morning. Although ...

I love this mug because polka dots make me smile. I bought it at the beginning of my ...

If we could choose, I don't think many of us would voluntarily return to being a teena ...

This picture says spring to me, maybe because I'm officially over winter. If I was in ...

Oh how I love a snow day. I'm not sure those not involved in education can truly unde ...

I stared at this image for quite awhile before figuring out what it was. Anything tak ...

"No two snowflakes are alike, according to common wisdom. Icicles, on the other hand, ...

Don't you wish every road you traveled on looked this inviting. The journey, whether ...

Can't you just smell this photo? Makes me want to go to see a movie. Except that is ...

Well hello old friend. We don't spend as much time together as we used to. Our daily ...

I have been spending my mornings working in a room without windows. When I leave at l ...

I dislike ironing. It's right up there with grocery shopping and cleaning the baseboa ...

Well this has a pretty clear choice. I wish more of my questions could be answered so ...

I don't know much about rhinos. My impression is that they are fairly solitary animal ...

Well this is a big idea. What can I say about love that hasn't already been eloquentl ...

Such a gloomy morning yet this little fellow appears to be holding out hope that the s ...

These are two well known landmarks in our downtown. The monument in the front is cal ...

A beautiful blue sky and white fluffy clouds....looks like a warm summer day. Except ...

Oh technology. We have such a complicated relationship. You can make life so much eas ...

Some days I work hard to make sure I do not upset my apple cart. Other days I want to ...

The elusive snow cloud. They keep threatening but have yet to actually follow through ...

I enjoy watching HGTV. Every time I visit Lowes I hope to be ambushed by one of their ...

I love little wrapped boxes. Sometimes the wrapping and the anticipation of what is i ...

E posted this before I had written anything. In the end that turns out to be a good t ...

Sunrise. A new day ripe with possibility. Will it be the day I organize the house or ...

When E first showed me this one I asked how he got so close to the squirrel. I didn't ...

We have been out of town and now I am back logged. I am going to let Robert Fulghum t ...

We have been celebrating Mardi Gras in Mobile the last several days. The floats in las ...

This is an image that E and I could post once or twice a week. I love our town's beer ...

"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible thing ...

I was especially surprised by this image today because I am actually feeling pretty pr ...

I LOVE this place! The liquid truffle they serve is in my top 10 all-time favorite fo ...

Some parts of my life I see very clearly as black or white. Fish for dinner never, pi ...

This is the view we see as we turn into our neighborhood. Some days I don't even notic ...

"When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow." Ursula K. Le Guin Today was Gro ...

I wonder how many of us struggle to see the big picture? It is really easy to be hype ...

I had the opportunity to have tea with a friend this afternoon. Doesn't that sound de ...

I am bossy and, while it is advantageous at times, it's not a trait of which I am espe ...

I have recently come to the upsetting conclusion that I don't always like surprises. ...

Some days just spin by and today was one. Photo Data: f/2.8 – 1/4 (ISO 200) Imag ...

Even in the middle of a grey winter day you can always uncover pockets of green. May ...

So it took E 390 snaps to get this shot and it still wasn't quite to his liking. This ...

I think I might have a container of rocks in just about every room of my house. They ...

We all have tools of the trade on which we rely. For some of us that means real tools ...

Are we on the right track? I have such a romanticized idea of trains. Just think ho ...

Some things seem too big to write about unless you have something important to say. Si ...

Funny picture E took today. At some point during the day, he tells me he is having a b ...

I just realized that E got the easier end of this commitment. Commitment. I have a com ...

Writing to come by my lovely wife. So he says "What are you going to write about my b ...

My wife and I started something new today. I've read about 365 photo journals and was inte ...

A few new websites have been completed in the past month. The first is The charleston M ...

.... If I have stated this before but when it rains it really does pour. Thanks everyone f ...

Several new websites were just completed in the past months. Longview Builders, Inc, Ko ...

Glad to finish and launch Sims & Steele Consulting firms new website. http://www.simsa ...

Been busy these past few months.  I have several projects in the works.  More information ...

One of images I took for Molly and Cupcakes for Cures was just published in WNC Magazine. ...

The newest website is completed. Thank you to Matt and Amy for giving me the opportunity t ...

In the past few months LPDS has been very busy. Architecture is coming back around and we ...

Just launched on Facebook.  We are trying to reach out to everyone possible.  Thanks every ...

Many thanks to Birdhouse Originals for the logo work! I couldn't have done it without you, ...

The website is near completion and the business is going to start taking off soon. A logo ...

I was really impressed with the program Foundations at Mountain BizWorks. It's been a grea ...