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Author Archives: Touch2Touch
Weekly Photo Challenge: BROKEN
I kicked against the pricks on this one — I don’t like broken! I like whole, beautiful, pristine, functioning. All that good stuff. But as I went through the photos, it was borne in upon me how often I have … Continue reading
Posted in Museums
Tagged Art, Automobiles, Broken, Museums, Puzzles, weeklyphotochallenge2015
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Weekly Photo Challenge: ENVELOPED
I can’t help but read this challenge word as en-vel-oped, that is, all wrapped up in its paper container and ready to put in the U.S. mail. But of course that isn’t at all what the challenger means. Wrapped up, yes … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Nature, Photography, Spring
Tagged Flowering shrubs, New England, Spring
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Weekly Photo Challenge: AFLOAT
For most of our married life, we lived on Long Island, surrounded by water — even if I wasn’t much for swimming in it, or boating on top of it, or anything. But for the past 15 years we’ve lived inland. … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: BLUR
An interesting idea, interesting challenge: BLUR. Why might we keep a blurry photo, instead of tossing it?What might it express? Well, a number of things, actually. I’ll lead off with a conventional image, perhaps the most conventional of all. The blur here conveys … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: EPHEMERAL
Robert Frost, quintessential New Englander and poet of his region, taught here for a number of years at Amherst College. He made what to me is the definitive statement about ephemeral in his wonderful short poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay”: Nature’s first … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, Color, Nature, Photography, Poetry
Tagged Autumn, Ephemera, Gold, New England, Poetry, Robert Frost, weeklyphotochallenge2015
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Weekly Photo Challenge: FRESH
I could go out and point the camera at the fresh snow falling right now, but that would be altogether too discouraging. Spring has just sprung, at least by the calendar, and by golly! if the snow hasn’t caught up … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Nature, Photography, Plants, Winter
Tagged Flowers, Freshness, Pussy Willows, Spring, weeklyphotochallenge2015
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Weekly Photo Challenge: WALL
A mini-drama in the Mall: If ever there was a wall of dreams, here’s one: The enigmatic siren in the Sephora window offers the secrets and apparatus of beauty to every female passer-by. Come inside, her gaze hints, and learn all the … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Women
Tagged Female Beauty, Transformation, weeklyphotochallenge2015
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Weekly Photo Challenge: ORANGE
Who doesn’t love orange? I certainly do! It gives me joy, sparks my enthusiasm, makes me happy. What’s not to love? Surely one of the reasons for the worldwide popularity of Hallowe’en is — PUMPKINS! Which are orange-est of the oranges. Here’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, Color, Happiness, Photography
Tagged Autumn, Color, Hallowe'en, Happiness, Orange, Pumpkins, weeklyphotochallenge2015
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Weekly Photo Challenge: SCALE
A slam-dunk on this one — A visit to the Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures in Tucson, Arizona demands a metamorphosis on entry: How the Hub has scaled down! (The museum is a fascinating place, a paradise for anyone who ever … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Museums, Photography
Tagged Dollhouses, Miniatures, Museums, Scale, Tucson AZ, weeklyphotochallenge2015
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Weekly Photo Challenge: SERENITY
I love it! As my friends said on the rustic sign they hurriedly hung on a tree in the wooded entry drive to their new house: SERENITY NOW! My friends found — or attempted to create — their serenity in the Beautiful … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Nature, Photography, Plants
Tagged Asticou, Gardens, Japanese Gardens, Maine, Serenity
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