I often take a break during the day to go to my back door and see what, if any critters are hanging around out back. Frequently off and on, I find a healthy squirrel sitting either own my wall or a neighbors’ wall, sunning and sniffing the air. I thought there was just one...
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The image is not much, but for me, the tuna steak is a departure, because I do not eat much seafood- let alone prepare it. But with new paths come little changes in course and direction, and I picked up a bag of frozen tuna steaks last weekend, intending to eat healthier at home....
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With yesterday being a day off for bank and school and government people, work was quiet and unstressed. Today ended up feeling like a Monday because of it, but I took two opportunities to day- at lunch and after work- to walk the neighborhood trail, again, with the aim of improving my mental and...
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After a day as a homebody, watching streams of my nephew wrestling in a high school meet in Nebraska across the late morning and afternoon, and poring over my financial activities from last year (with an aim for a tighter budget), when 4:30 PM came around I was guilted into some daily exercise. Guilt...
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My folks finally go their new gas fireplace installed at their home today, replacing a good old unit that finally gave up two years ago. My effort at drawing a quick use guide for the remote control for my dad. Not sure it helps, but I tried. Today was a good day, bright out,...
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The sun was bright this morning when I got around, and it stayed bright, although the morning was cold. I took a walk on my neighborhood trail at lunch, and the skies were busy with cloud whispering.
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When you run out of hours in the day, and need a photo, you do whatever. This is my black-and-white onion still life, taken with an 85mm lens at F1.8, onion on the kitchen counter. If anything, post-processing this photo gave me a chance to play a little with trying to pull out more...
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Another day, another overdue crash landing. Back to the Loop path after work it was, for a walk and a sulk. I don’t think I am made for relationships. Elapsed I knocked on a door And it opened part way I looked inside But I didn’t stay I knocked on the door on another...
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It was nice to wake up this morning and see a sky covered by lily pad clouds. In time, the clouds all melded into one and hugged the earth, giving us a nice and gentle snow mid-morning. About noon, I took a brisk walk under a white sky on one of my normal routes-...
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Today I was the grateful redeemer of a gift from some cherished friends. The UNM balloon at dawn, taken from the Visit Albuquerque balloon.
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I broke out of my pattern of two-years of passive (non-)participation with the Albuquerque camera club today, and ended up getting lunch with several men who participate in the club’s mid-week photography meets. We had a good lunch at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (the taco salad was delicious, as expected), and following the...
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When I checked out of work today, I did a few things in the house, and then I went upstairs to my bedroom, where I thought I’d get a shirt nap. I woke up an hour later with the sun down, and the horizon glowing behind a great tree in a neighbor’s back yard.
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One afternoon early last spring, I found my long, clear, tubular plastic bird feeder on the backyard patio concrete, scarred with a long crack along one side. It had been in questionable condition throughout the prior year, losing two of its four plastic peg perches to overweight pigeons or squirrels practicing the trapeze. Well,...
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