One fun art project is to depict the same subject in four different ways. It’s a really enjoyable thing to do and it helps you stretch your creativity. And so, I did exactly that. I started off with an ink drawing that I made in response to the Inktober week six prompt, which was “granny.” […]
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Today was a great day to explore Grand Island in winter. I had the opportunity to take a tour of Grand Island and to see the wildlife of the island and the river. I was able to photograph most everything I saw. The only thing that I didn’t have a chance to photograph was a
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Weeks of below freezing temperatures have had their effect in the nearby bodies of water. Lake Erie is completely frozen over, and the Niagara River is full of huge chunks of ice. The Niagara Queen II and William H. Latham, ice breakers from Canada and the United States respectively, have been busily breaking up ice
Today, I had the chance to go to Niagara Falls for a little photography tour. Winter in Niagara Falls State Park is spectacular. Ice and snow sit in the fast-moving rapids and tall banks of snow sit next to the gushing waters of the falls. Here are some of the photographs that I took.
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Today is the last day of the January version of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. It’s been an experience, especially with this crazy weather. So much snow and the arctic blast that stays on and on and on. Today, I went out to a workshop that was about both winter and the hope for spring. It
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How do you express yourself in a time of fear? What do you say when your world has been broken apart by official pronouncements of us vs. them, and the them is really us? How do you catch courage? How do you listen and understand and hope when you feel that all hope has fled?
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Today, all of the smoke detectors and pull cords in this apartment building were tested. The pull cords are things that you pull if you feel really sick or if you’ve fallen and can’t get up, assuming that you conveniently fall next to a pull cord. There are pull cords in the bathroom and the
The prompt for week four of Inktober 52 is “cozy.” Here are two bears, enjoying a very cozy nap in a lovely bed. #wordlesswednesday
Today, our small group of mice are safe on a little island that we have yet to name. We haven’t been here long. Maybe a week or two. A sweet young man who some of our friends met at the zoo helped us by ferrying us to this little island. I will tell our story
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The snow has finally stopped falling. All of that snowfall was the result of a giant storm that affected much of the United States, from Arkansas to New England, as well as parts of Canada. The storm left snow and ice and extremely cold temperatures. Many people lost electricity, and travel was extremely hazardous. Yesterday,
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