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No Comments. Continue Reading...I wasn’t sure to make reference to angels or trumpets as both are the name of this flower. We grow it in our back yard and in the summer it fills the backyard with a sweet sweet smell; however, ours in the backyard do not grow as big as the ones Renee has in Haiti. [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...If any of you garden, you will at one time or another strolled through the plant section of your local big box hardware store and seen the colorful bush called lantana. In my yard it is a butterfly magnet. It is also appropriate this is one of the images chosen of Renee’s work. The butterfly [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...The last few weeks I have been fighting the effects of and MS relapse and have fallen down on the job getting you the last of the images I have from Renee. I have looked at this one several times and each time I look at it I think balloons. I don’t know why but [...]
1 Comment. Continue Reading...It has been a long week. MS relapse and the treatment that comes with it. Sometimes I think the cure is worse than the illness. Today, however, is a better day. The drug course is winding down and I am beginning to feel relatively human again. The Resurrection Dance Theater from Haiti will be with [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...It is 11:30 at night and still no sleep has come. My MS is flaring, my legs are on fire, but I still find so much joy and warm feelings as I write this piece. The above photo is one of the rare times I will try to compose an image. It took several forms, [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Naming an photo is a process for me. As I work on it the name starts to take form. In my mind I am spinning it, looking at the colors, the focal point of interest and eventually a name bubbles it’s way to the surface. I compare it to what sculptures have told me when [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...A Labor Day Gift: Unplug by Christine Mason McCaull Sep 06 2010 Smartphones and the growth of social media makes us all too available all the time. That’s why disciplined unplugging can be key to sanity, creativity, and productivity. mage: iStockphoto.com Christine Mason McCaull is one of several entrepreneurs Portfolio.com is following as part of [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...This has to be one of my favorite images from Renee. The velvety smoothness of the flower, and the infinity symbol the petals create. A reminder of the never ending promise we all have been given.
No Comments. Continue Reading...Guess Whose Coming to Diner, a social for our church, was when I determined the perfect person for this shot. LuAnne loved horses, and I still remember that night as we entered their house and saw a magnificent sunset overlooking their horse fields and the silhouette of a windmill. Peaceful and welcoming, these are the [...]
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