Ominous

July 27, 2009

Changing pictures from color to monochrome seems to change their “tone” entirely. On a bright and beautiful day, my husband and I drove through the South Texas Hill Country near Luckenbach viewing these sights. They seemed cheerful in color. Once I changed the pictures to black and white, they seemed almost ominous to me. What [...]

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Tic Toc

July 20, 2009

Do y’all wake to an alarm clock in the morning? I don’t need an alarm clock, because I have alarm cats. They always decide they need to be fed while I am still sleeping, and will go to great lengths to waken their “mommy.” For the longest time, every morning when I opened my eyes [...]

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The Blues in Black And White

July 13, 2009

I listen to a lot of music during the summer, and most often I’m playing the blues. Because I’m listening to the blues today, I decided to enter this photo of a friend playing blues harmonica into the Monochrome Weekly Project. You can visit Aileni at the main site to find other photographers who love [...]

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Unexpected Maturity

June 29, 2009

This is my favorite photograph of my beloved spousal unit. It’s a self-portrait he made when he was a teenager. Don’t you just see the joy of youth in this? Fortunately, most of the time he is more like the above than this more solemn picture below. In fact, it was hard to make him [...]

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Child’s Play

June 22, 2009

If you had this clown coin bank — would you be inclined to save your money? I came around the corner in an antique store in Gainesville, Texas and saw this face leering at me. I was ready to jump out of my skin. Evidently, one was supposed to put a coin in its hand, [...]

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Jurassic Texas

June 15, 2009

Dinosaurs! I encountered a small exhibit of them at The Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney, Texas, which is right here in my neck of the woods. My children went through a period when they both loved anything to do with prehistoric reptiles. I delighted in this interest, because I had wanted [...]

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Supplication

June 8, 2009

It’s just that kind of day … the kind when I throw my hands in the air and pray. This is Monochrome Monday at Aileni’s blog. Visit some other photographers (ones who can actually shoot photographs!) who are smitten with black and white photos. If you want to show off your photographs in an album, [...]

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As Simple As Black and White

June 4, 2009

I dream of castles in the air. But, try to keep my feet firmly planted on the ground. Most days, I see the world in glorious hues … so dazzling that I’m blinded by them. But now and then I have to look at life through a different lens. Sometimes life is as simple as [...]

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