by Marge Piercy Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh. Every day I will give you a color, like a new flower in a bud vase on your desk. Every day […]
For this to mean much you have to go back and skim this. *************** I drove to the Nissan dealer in Marlborough for a replacement part for my windshield wiper -Â the arm that connects the motor to the center pivot assembly – and paid twenty-nine dollars for a thin piece of aluminum with a […]
For this to mean much you have to go back and skim this. *************** I drove to the Nissan dealer in Marlborough for a replacement part for my windshield wiper -Â the arm that connects the motor to the center pivot assembly – and paid twenty-nine dollars for a thin piece of aluminum with a […]
Karen, at Shear Madness in Littleton, cuts my hair and came to our house and buzzed Diane’s head for nothing. She’s the best.
Maybe we are all mooned out, but here’s one of my brother’s shots from his deck in Cambridge. Nikon D 300 Shutter speed – 1/2 sec F – 5.6 Iso – 800
Maybe we are all mooned out, but here’s one of my brother’s shots from his deck in Cambridge. Nikon D 300 Shutter speed – 1/2 sec F – 5.6 Iso – 800
I queued up behind a phalanx of snow plows today hogging all three lanes of route 2. What is up with that? They can’t space themselves far enough apart so I, and like minded souls, can scoot by them? In spite of the snow, the road was reasonably safe at, say, 40, but the rolling […]
Michael, Some of us are still not jaded by good lunar eclipse pictures–see this one. Admittedly, it’s not a “purist’s” (no digital fiddling) picture, but few of them are these days. It’s a combination of a telescopic view (showing Jennifer’s stars) and a filtered camera shot. –rakkity *************** I’m tacking this photo onto rak’s post. […]
Last night was the highlight of the year, clearly. But, now that we’ve got the moon out of the way, I can go back to posting flower photos. Â
Mike, It was misty, but we could see the moon being eclipsed. The mists took away the color, so it looked grey to the eye, and even through binocs.In my picture from our front yard (attached) without any fiddling of the saturation of the digital data, the moon is clearly red . The moon is […]