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Category: Encouragement

  • Something To Smile About…

        Try to look at this and not smile.. Go ahead, I dare you!       For the next few days, there will be some photos of the beautiful children in my life. These three are my adorable nieces!

  • No Regrets

        No egrets. Oh, one egret.   No regrets.   (Mostly.)       Great Egret at sunset.

  • Beckoning

        There's something about a sandbar that beckons you to come out past your comfort zone, to tempt the tide and time, just a little farther, a little longer… all will be well. Promise!     Matanzas River, between the inlet and the fort.

  • Simple Joy

        My favorite fountain in Mt. Vernon Place, probably my favorte fountain in the world!   The cat tails and the turtle and the playful child, all speak to a simple joy.         Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland.

  • Things Unseen

        Sometimes it's the things that you can't see or figure out in an image, or in life, that are the most intriguing.   Not the things that make you crazy, but the things that make you  wonder.       Photo by Vicki Johnston, as we tested my new camera on her back…

  • Mimid

        Singing her little heart out, just for me!         This Brown Thrasher had me fooled for a little while as she was singing like a Mockingbird right outside my door.

  • The Sun Never Sets

        The way that the horizon curves in this photograph, it looks as though the sun might take us all with it, clouds, earth and water, as it sets beautifully at the end of a long day.   But the sun doesn't really set, does it?   So it can't take us down with…

  • These Two Clouds

    These two clouds drifted apart a bit more before coming back so close together that they became one. Kind of like our relationships, the rythm of our friendships and love, ebbing and flowing like grand clouds dancing in the sky. Far apart one moment and close as a kiss the next. This is a time…

  • Lucky

        (To paraphrase e.e. cummings…)   not all matterings of mind equal one iris           The line as I remember it is: not all matterings of mind equal one violet And aren't we lucky to see such things?  

  • Getting Above the Clouds

        That moment when the wheels lift off the tarmac and you are airbourne, just inches from the ground, you shake your head at the thought of this huge metal can flying and off you go, into the clouds on a rainy day in Baltimore.   It's not raining above the clouds, the sun…