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I have to finally admit that I’ve hit the wall.
What else can I say? My ability to cope, to soldier on, to muster my flagging energy and enthusiasm has dwindled to all-time lows.
It’s nothing specific. Nothing is different this week than it was last week or the week or month before. There’s no new crisis. […]

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This is the green marsh I was talking about:

This is also one of the last images captured by my trusty old Sony F707 (5MP) digital camera. It has served me well. Images from that camera were featured in my solo photo exhibit this winter. Dex gave me that camera for my birthday the summer Davey […]

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Two months ago, Davey started using the PECS system of communication at school. In brief, PECS entails a picture exchange. The “speaker” selects an image (photo or symbol) from a set of cards and hands it to the “listener” to communicate wants, needs, moods, etc. PECS can communicate a single want, like a drink or […]

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The facade of my Yankee neighbors and friends has crumbled. Winter ‘07-’08 has pushed them all over the edge. Many natives have told me recently how utterly sick they are of this winter. This morning, the gold standard of Yankee stoicism - my neighbor K - cracked. When she admits she’s sick of winter, you […]

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It may have looked like an ordinary lunar eclipse on Wednesday night…

But take a closer look.

The universe has gone insane! Run for your lives!

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One of the things I wanted to know after Davey was born was what he would look like. I had barely a moment to gaze into his eyes before he was whisked off to the Special Care Nursery, then another too brief visit a few hours later when we were told for the first time […]

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Now, just because I take pictures of horses doesn’t mean I think I’m some kind of Jr Pioneer Woman. I too have horses. I too am a photographer. Oh, and we both have four kids. But we live worlds apart, even though, yeah, sure, the life she’s living would have sounded like heaven to me […]

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I picked up an Advent calendar at the grocery store yesterday. I hesitated, for no good reason other than thinking, eh, I don’t really need to get one today. Then it hit me - we were already three days into the calendar. Time to make paper chains! Time to get lights on the house! Now, […]

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Tiny flakes appeared just before the school bus this morning. By mid-morning, enough were falling to accumulate and the girls were enchanted and begging to go outside. 

The horses seemed less than enchanted. They stood like this for over an hour. Geez, guys, it wasn’t that cold.

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I promised you some images of New England landscapes. Here is the first set of photos. I shoot a lot of these type of images from a moving car (shooting blindly, keeping my eyes on the road). I’ve found that if I don’t shoot while moving, I’m never able to get any images of most […]

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