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Finnegan
A few weeks ago, before Thanksgiving Day came and went, I was thinking of the years with Finnegan. As the afternoon you slept through...
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Mid-Summer at Magnolia Vineyards & Winery
200 mm 1/320 sec f/5.6 ISO 100 As the hot, sticky, way-too-rainy summer of 2018 rolled along here in Virginia, I recently had the...
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For Ashley and Madeline
55 mm 1/30 sec f/6.3 ISO 800 Maybe Ashley and Madeline hanging out with me on an otherwise boring Thursday at the end of May, instead...
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Doing What Comes Naturally
20 mm 1/15 sec f/6.3 ISO 2200 The sun is out, has been all day, and lately this is too rare a sight. My little wren, who was recently...
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Dogwoods at Dawn
Sunrise 200 mm 1/40 sec f/5.6 ISO 2200 When strangers want to commiserate with you about the weather, you know the weather is being a...
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Time for Tulips
200 mm 1/500 sec f/5.6 ISO 140 The mid-April sun greeted the tulips this morning with gentle encouragement. The miniature daffodils...
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Sweet April
March finally closed in on itself, gathered up its late-snow and bluster, and allowed itself on its final day to embrace some sunshine...
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A Change of Scenery
82 mm 1/5000 sec f/4.2 ISO 71 The March winds blew Madeline down from the north this past weekend. A last minute four day...
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Spring Has Sprung?
200 mm 1/400 sec f/5.6 ISO 140 Oh, March, how difficult it is to be your most ardent supporter. I try, I really do. It's spring, I say...
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The Bees Know How to Find the Thyme
200 mm 1/320 sec f/5.3 ISO 200 A persistent late-February thaw is upon my flower beds, and the mud is all-consuming. The...
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