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The Magic of Filters and Editing
With The Handmade Market just around the corner, I placed my first order of prints for a look-book, and for some display frames to hang on the table. I’ve never sold photography at a show before, so I decided to have the 4×6 prints with a thin white trim for demo and let people place an order for larger prints if they desire. I’d still like to have some 5×7 prints available, but I don’t know which ones to print.…
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Turtle Hole Eno River
We spend far too many Saturdays around here without a plan. The morning fades into noon and the day goes by without our really sucking the marrow out of it. We sometimes lament that we can’t afford fancy travel or fun toys like motor boats and waltz back to life on Monday with ridiculous sunglasses and sandal tans and windblown hair. We let things like money, the ages of our boys, and that mid-morning punch of drowsiness relegate us to…
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In Honor of Earth Day
In all honesty, I wasn’t aware that yesterday was Earth Day until after I’d taken the boys out to shop for plants (specifically irises), but I must have been getting good earthy vibes since we finally got rain after a two week dry spell. In fact, we’ve received nearly two inches of rain since Saturday. The sprinkler never quite generates the same growth in the veggie garden as a good rainstorm does. We visited the plant sale at J.C. Raulston…
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White Deer Park Rainwater Cisterns
After several posts on my home water cistern, I thought it would be fun to share what White Deer Park in Gardner is doing with rainwater. White Deer Park was built on land with its roots in agriculture, so they chose to have their cisterns resemble silos and built structures with lean-to roofs. Their picnic shelters all have cisterns to capture runoff. I’m not sure what most of them are used for, but one of these feeds into a hand…
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Mobile Portraits of Fall
Yesterday the boys and I went to Laurel Hills Park. The fall leaves made me a little giddy. It doesn’t get much better than time with my kids in perfect weather in the middle of my most favorite season of the year.
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Herb Garden Inspiration
Albeit I haven’t seen many herb gardens, one of my favorite places to visit is the herb garden at the Historic Oak View County Park. Dedicating a space solely for the growing of culinary herbs is quite divine. I have an herb garden that wraps halfway around my back deck, and slowly this space is expanding to other parts of the garden as I find new cultivars that I *must* grow. Yesterday, the Oak View garden was past its peak…