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Blue Bokeh

Bymichelle March 2, 2011July 27, 2022

Not the greatest picture mankind has taken, but I just loved the blue-green colors and thought they needed to be out there, floating around on the internet.   It makes me happy…

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garden | photography | thinking out loud

Dark Garden

Bymichelle March 2, 2011July 27, 2022

Some more evening pictures in my yard.  Lately, I think my neighbors are used to the sound of our screen door slamming and the sight of me, just before the…

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garden | knitting | photography | stuff | thinking out loud

Ripped

Bymichelle March 1, 2011July 27, 2022

Weeded, spread, and planted all by myself.  My kids thought they would melt in the sprinkling mist- still waiting for them to catch the “garden bug.”  But that’s okay because…

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garden | photography | thinking out loud

Evening Light, Straight Out of the Camera

Bymichelle February 26, 2011July 27, 2022

…at least I think it’s straight out of  the camera.  After reading a rather heated debate on Flickr groups about what is SOOC and what isn’t, I’m wondering if I’ll…

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garden | lensbaby | my home | photography | thinking out loud

Wherever You Can Find It

Bymichelle February 11, 2011July 27, 2022

Oh, winter is bleak where I live.  Not bleak as in picturesque, snow- blanketed farm houses.  Not even a dramatic Siberia- bleak.  It’s just like summer when the grass is…

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garden | lensbaby | photography | thinking out loud

Positive Affirmation

Bymichelle February 2, 2011July 27, 2022

This is a visual positive affirmation:  (day 28) (green things on Flickr)  There is life out there that isn’t covered in an old, tattered sheet, blowing in the wind, and…

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family | garden | photography

Ancient Chinese Secret

Bymichelle January 10, 2011July 27, 2022

This is one of those things that people either grow well by accident or with some ancient chinese hoodoo: I never see these in anyone my age’s home.  I never…

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garden | photography

Some Blues, Some Greens

Bymichelle November 16, 2010July 27, 2022

I’m enjoying these faded colors.   (365 Day 310) late peppers

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garden | photography | thinking out loud

Hangers On

Bymichelle November 13, 2010July 27, 2022

This is one of the last flowers I’ll have in the yard until next Spring.   (365 Day 306) These roses shouldn’t even have survived all these years.  Their tenacity surprised…

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books | Christianity | garden | knitting | parenting | photography | thinking out loud

A Few More Days

Bymichelle November 3, 2010July 27, 2022

Don’t have much to accompany these photos- I think October fried my brain.   When I wasn’t posing in front of a dirty window or over a dirty river, I…

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