Adventures · Inspiration

Playing with winter, a photography kind of way

I can do this.  Yes, I can, Laura reminded me it's possible.  I can be cheery while I enjoy my view of winter. Despite ALL of the snow, I just know, that I can find a small way to play, and it is always behind the camera that I find that way. Right?  But it's… Continue reading Playing with winter, a photography kind of way

Adventures · Inspiration

How to break the holding patterns in your blogging habits

Hello, there...I see you in the corner!  Yeah, you.  I'm talking to you! What are you doing? Are you trying to come up with the perfect blog post this morning?  It's a lovely day, you must be bursting with ideas?  Some bright and cheery, and some, well...not so much so? Yeah, you're the one that… Continue reading How to break the holding patterns in your blogging habits

Inspiration

How to use scenes to find inspiration

There you sit, looking at the blinking line, and you wonder, "How the hell do artists or writers or bloggers do it?  How do they come up with new material every time they sit down in front of a blank page?" Where or where does their or your inspiration come from? Are you like me… Continue reading How to use scenes to find inspiration

Adventures · Cheers · Emptying the nest · Inspiration

Finally, we empty nesters stopped at a winery!

An empty nest mission of ours is to go to places in our own state of Wisconsin that we've said to each other in the past (as we drove by), "I want to stop there sometime." Now that our kids are older and wiser about things like wine and distilleries, they, of course, love it… Continue reading Finally, we empty nesters stopped at a winery!

Emptying the nest · Inspiration

Coming to terms with my clutter room

When I look at this room, I reflect and think, "My Q-Quarters are where good shit is going to happen...someday...!" One woman's clutter is another woman's mess. Or as my daughter and I call it... "It's not cluttered or messy it is the bones of some good shit." I think I need to make a… Continue reading Coming to terms with my clutter room

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Macro photography – play until you get it right

Macro photography works some of the time, but when it doesn't, it can look pretty darn messy. In my garden, I have lots of diagonal lines.  Big ones, like in the latticework, and tiny ones, too.  Some of my favorites are on the blades of the leaves of the flowers. What the heck, is that… Continue reading Macro photography – play until you get it right