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    Saturday afternoon in the backyard….

    Headaches have been plaguing me in the mornings. I rarely get them…lately more often than normal. Could be from all the weather fronts moving through…high pressure….low pressure….and of course, work pressure. Throw in a cup of family illness…stir and bake overnight. A relatively easy day today….Saturday afternoon in the backyard…  

  • Free Stuff

    Free January 2012 Desktop Calendar

    I was able to get past my mental block with resizing these free January 2012 desktop calendars and get them finished this evening.  There are two selections this month ~ both taken during the first sunset of the new year: To download a zip file of this calendar, click here.  There are six high resolution images available so you can select the one that best fits your screen.  For directions on how to unzip and apply to your desktop, see the end of this post. To download a zip file of this calendar, click here.  Again, there are six high resolution images available so you can select the one that…

  • Photography

    New Years Day

    I was beginning to work on Outside My Window but wasn’t feeling it today at all.   I decided to post some shots of the first sunset of the new year instead.  Outside My Window will be here tomorrow.

  • Photography

    What I See

    Yesterday was quite foggy in Hampton Roads….when I left my house it was really dense….almost too dense. The fog lightened up quite a bit the closer I got to Williamsburg and I got an idea.  I travel down the Colonial Parkway during the last leg of my drive to work.  It is always a beautiful drive but one of the things I love about the parkway is the fact there are no traffic lights and I can count on one hand the number of cars I see on my way to work each morning.  I carry my point and shoot camera with me so I decided to take a couple…

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    Scenes from Lake Matoaka

    While I was out and about the other day taking the photograph of Lake Matoaka for my desktop calendar, I took a few extras… The Lake Matoaka Amphitheater…the sky is totally blown out on this image, but I like it… ….and a view from the stage…

  • Free Stuff

    Another November 2011 Free Desktop Calendar

    I wanted to offer an option to the free desktop calendar I posted yesterday.  This is the Crim Dell Bridge, located on the campus of William and Mary. Select a link below, right click on the image and select “set as desktop background”.  Sizes are approximate and may take a few minutes to open: 900 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 1600 x 900 Fingers crossed these links work without a problem…. 🙂

  • Free Stuff

    November 2011 Free Desktop Calendar

    {Update} I was really unhappy with this image when I got to work today and checked them out on my monitors.  I don’t know what I did when I re-sized this but they didn’t pass.  I  have removed the texture and replaced the links. I also decided that while I like the image, I wanted something different for fall so I created one using the Crim Dell bridge.  I’m not sure if it is too busy for a desktop….but click here if you want to download that image.  I suppose there will always be a kink or two  until I get use to doing these calendars.  🙂    Lake Matoaka, College…

  • Friday Flashback

    Friday Flashback

    We came from Colorado…. ….a few came from Philadelphia…. ….to see the ones that were already there… ….and we got together where it all started. We met in Virginia Beach all those years ago….early twenties. And life was good. Taken in our hotel room the summer we visited  Virginia Beach, Virginia. The way we were….. I wish I had dated this photograph….but I didn’t…late 1970/early 1980’s I would say. ** Update On The Date ~ I found the negatives for this ~ July 1983 **