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Year: 2011

  • family | homemaking | parenting | photography | thinking out loud | ttv photo

    Dragon Pictures

    Bymichelle April 17, 2011July 27, 2022

    Our refrigerator used to be covered with drawings of cats.  The last few years it’s been all dragons and knights and such.  For now anyway.  I’ve had someone’s drawings on…

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  • garden | lensbaby | photography

    Ramblings, Grasshoppers, and “The Summer of George”

    Bymichelle April 15, 2011July 27, 2022

    About to catch up on posting 365 shots.  I’m surprised I’ve eked out the time to post at all lately.  Maybe I’m slightly more efficient at photo taking, editing, and…

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  • craft | homemaking | lensbaby | parenting | thinking out loud

    To Work or Not to Work

    Bymichelle April 14, 2011July 27, 2022

    I have been a stay at home mom for 17 years now but lately I have been conflicted about it.  I wonder if it’s about time to start working to…

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  • books | Christianity | photography | thinking out loud

    Scattered Light

    Bymichelle April 13, 2011July 27, 2022

    Since I started taking a photograph every day of my life, I will never take light for granted. The more I learn to work with it, the more in awe…

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  • animals | photography | ttv photo

    Yin Yang

    Bymichelle April 9, 2011July 27, 2022

    No real content here except this ttvptych of Spotticus. (yin yang, ttv52 week 13) He’s all at once yielding and aggressive, passive and focused, slow and fast.  Of course, one…

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  • camping | Christianity | photography | thinking out loud

    All You Need is Love

    Bymichelle April 9, 2011July 27, 2022

    Is it?   Maybe, if that love is more than warm fuzzies.  It would take a much larger concept of love than what many of us learned as children from…

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  • music | photography

    One of My Favorite Songs

    Bymichelle April 8, 2011July 27, 2022

    My family liked the top image most, but I really liked the bottom.    Same thing, just different tones and shadows.  I thought that was sort of revealing. (flea market…

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  • cheap stuff | running | stuff

    Stepping Down

    Bymichelle April 7, 2011July 27, 2022

    I’m taking another step down in my move to a more minimal running shoe with these Addidas.  It’s not at all as bare bones as the Feelmax, but there’s almost…

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  • garden | photography | thinking out loud

    I Love Windy Spring Days

    Bymichelle April 5, 2011July 27, 2022

    Really. (day 93)     

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  • garden | photography

    Pruning

    Bymichelle April 5, 2011July 27, 2022

    There’s no allusion here, no biblical message about discipline making us stronger here.  It’s really just about pruning. I think I messed up, because I don’t prune things enough.  I’m…

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