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My online journal where I share my interests in photography, nature, journaling, fountain pens, bicycling, coffee life, spirituality and asking deep questions.

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  • About
  • Portfolio
    • Avian
    • Candid Portraits
    • Clouds
    • Coffee Life
    • Flowers
    • Journals and Pens
    • Leaves
    • Sunrises
    • Sunsets
  • Buy Prints
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  • Contact
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  • coffee life,  coffee shops,  journal,  poetry,  writing/reading

    start my day this way

    May 18, 2021

    looking for words
    in books as well as
    blank pages of a journal

    looking for images
    in nature as well as
    a favorite coffeehouse

    filling my days with both
    filling my soul with both
    filling a mug with a mocha

    start my day this way

    ms
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  • clouds,  Fujifilm X-T10,  haiku,  landscape,  sunsets,  tanka,  writing/reading

    Yesterdays Sunset

    February 11, 2021

    heading for home
    nature provides sunset gift
    joyfully accepted
    pulled over in empty field
    leave with awe and wonder

    ms

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  • leaves,  Plants

    Big Leaf Maple

    October 25, 2015
    Big Leaf Maple
    Big Leaf Maple

    “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

    Rumi
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  • Camera Equipment,  Fujifilm X-T10,  journal

    Simplified

    October 22, 2015

    The X-T10 with 27mm f2.8 lens and my journal.
    The X-T10 with 27mm f2.8 lens and my journal.

    This is pretty much all I carry with me in my backpack, anymore. One camera, one lens. My journal and pen. Kindle paperwhite. A light jacket. Sometimes I throw in a small “10” Chromebook. The kitchen sink. And, I don’t usually carry this much cash with me, either. 🙂

     

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  • Fujifilm X-T10,  Transportation

    San Marco

    September 24, 2015

    San Marco
    San Marco

    My walk across campus allows me to see hundreds of bicycles. The dorm rooms are inundated with them. Riders are everywhere along with skateboards.  And, there are colors from one end of the rainbow to the other.

    I like this one
    I like this one

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Photographers

  • Alex Kunz
  • Brad Mangas
  • David Kingham
  • David LeLand Hyde
  • Faye White
  • John Barnhardt
  • JWSmith Photography Blog
  • Ken Bollo
  • Ken Sandberg Photography
  • Mark Graf – Nature Photography
  • Meandering Passage
  • Todd Henson
  • Tom Dills Photography Blog

Blogroll

  • Barbara McCullough- Artist
  • David Mathiesen Tennis
  • George Wallace – Poems/Essays
  • Greg Rose – Spiritual Companion
  • Linda Fitzgerald – Artist
  • Lisa Zimmerman – Poet
  • Onbeing with Krisata Tippet
  • Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – Poet
  • Spiritual Direction Colorado
  • Spiritual Directors International
  • The Marginalian (Maria Popova)
  • Victoria Erickson – Writer
  • Wordpress.org

Native American Flutes Makers and Players

  • Ancient Territories Flutes
  • Butch Hall Flutes
  • Heartsong Flutes
  • High Spirits Flutes
  • Horizons Flute Store
  • Jan Michael Looking Wolf
  • John Huling
  • Jonny Lipford
  • Mary Youngblood
  • Native Sunrise Flutes
  • Ronald Roybal
  • Stellar Flutes
  • Woodsounds

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