The House With Nobody In It - The Inside Written by Joyce Kilmer, Published in 1914 Another excerpt: But a house that has done what a house should do, a house that has sheltered life, That has put its loving wooden arms around a man and his wife, A house that has echoed a baby's laugh and hel
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01/29/2010
The House With Nobody In It Written by Joyce Kilmer, Published in 1914 An excerpt: Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie trackI go by a poor old farmhouse with its shingles broken and black.I suppose I've passed it a hundred times, but I always stop for a minuteAnd look at the house, the tr
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01/27/2010
FontPage - Font Viewer - Cool Tool! Now and then I run across something online that looks and sounds like something that might be useful. I create alot of slideshows, and use different fonts in them. If you're like me, you are probably spending more time than you like trying to figure out whi
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01/26/2010
Our Love Affair With Flowers The subject of poems, paintings, mythology, religion, music, and photography, the beauty of flowers have held humans in thrall for centuries.There are nearly 300,000 documented species of flowers, and flowering plant fossils have been found that date back as far as
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01/24/2010
Photography In a Public Place - What is the Law? Comments in a recent post got me curious about this question. So I did what I always do when I want to know something - I went online to research it. Interestingly, there is a ton of information online on the subject. It is hard to wade through wh
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01/21/2010
The Naked Trees of Winter When we think of beautiful trees, we usually think of them fully dressed, that is, with leaves. But I've come to appreciate the beauty of naked trees in winter :) This photo was tonemapped using 3 exposures, (+3, 0, -3), in Photomatix high dynamic range processing s
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01/20/2010
Homeless in America Part 2 - My Musings Yesterday I wrote and posted photos of a story about the Homeless In America. As I sit in the comfort of my home, what I saw, and what I felt as I was moving around the city taking these photographs continues to haunt me. I became aware of the feeling
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01/19/2010
Homeless In America"There but for the grace of God, go I" - attributed to John Bradford, 16th CenturyIn any given night in America, 700,000 to 2 million people have no home to go to. Staggering statistic? Yes. And these numbers were from 1996. In Colorado Springs, Fountain Creek runs parallel t
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01/18/2010
The Miraculous Staircase of The Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe, NM A few days ago I started reading a book by Jeannette Walls called "Half Broke Horses". It's the true story of a girl, (Ms. Wall's grandmother), born in the Hondo Valley of New Mexico, who in 1914, at the age of 13, was sent to boardin
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01/17/2010
Do You Format Your Camera's Memory Cards? You Should! Formatting your memory cards is much the same thing as formatting your computer. To avoid problems with your cards due to 'bad sectors', and improve the card's performance, you should format them regularly. This is not the same thing as 'e
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01/15/2010
