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We still have a couple of months remaining of summer, and I hope we all get to enjoy all the wonderful things summer offers.

Summer has arrived, and with it have come the blooms of wildflowers, reminding us just how restorative time spent in nature can be.

There have been plenty of blooming life happening this past month. More than a person has time to photograph for sure.

What if we took some advice from trees on living better? What can we learn from trees? Could they, or other forms of life, provide positive insights into our own lives?

The month of March is one of those border months. With weather that can straddle both winter and spring. That was the case for much of the Midwest.

On one early February morning, I had the idea of taking a picture of many of these bird boxes with the thought of making a photo project with them. That is the basis of my Sepia Textured Bird Boxes.

Living Wide Rather Than Living Long It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Living has yet to be [...]

The Golden Age Looking to today and beyond. Most of us will not achieve everything in life we ever had hoped for. It's probably fair to say, we all will have unrealized hopes, [...]

Time to get caught up on summer photos. Lots have been taken. There have been a large number of photos taken from nearby hiking trails. Most of which will be gone through shortly. I would think a good handful will make it into some of the galleries here as well as offered as prints.

The journey through autumn this year seems to have been a fast one. I dreamt of cooler temps and colorful landscapes that only autumn can provide.

Living a fulfilled life. Thoughts and ideas on contentment and happiness.

Historically, there has always been a "somewhat" blending of painting and photography. This is of course after the invention of photography. As time progressed it was not uncommon for an artist who painted in the traditional sense to use a photograph to base their painting off of.