Today through November 11th, bloggers are raising money for Soldier’s Angels’ Valour-IT OP! This competition raises money for technology that reconnects wounded warriors and supports their recovery. Project Valour-IT helps provide voice-controlled/adaptive laptop computers and other technology to support Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries. Items supplied include: [...]

An un-planted garden from the front yard. I’d gone out to take pictures of some purple flowers but couldn’t get a good shot of those… one reason might be the wind gusts, causing the things to bob about as if possessed. This was too close to the ground to run from me. Click for a [...]

Primordial Slack’s Joan identifies a problem and advances a solution in a wonderful essay. I admire her ability; it may be easy enough to see an obstacle preventing people from moving forward… or moving at all… yet very few can diagnose the underlying ailment and prescribe a cure in a dose large enough for the [...]

Love the sun radiating through leaves… and believe it or not, this is the effect I was trying to capture. How something so simple can be so wondrous… I call this one: “No, really. Some of it is in focus.”

Frankly, I couldn’t believe I got this shot. Just when I’m ready to toss that camera… I hate these little bastards. I named this one ‘Nancy Pelosi’.

I don’t know which I like better… it could be totally subjective.

A second Spring? A confused Crinum has decided to shoot some buds out! Right there next to the dying plumeria… how is it I have not seen this?