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Camellia from the Plaza Principal in Nacogdoches, Texas
Made with a Leica M (type 240) / 135mm f/4 Tele-Elmar 1971
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Horticultural Delectables
Is there a beloved culinary recipe at your house that the whole family values but takes a significant investment of time and money to create? Yet, you make that investment year after year because, once achieved, the family rallies around it as an army rallies around a beloved general. Annually, each winter my…
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The White House Gardens
For obvious reasons I’ve been thinking about the White House, Presidents and Inaugurations. What will be the outcome of the next few years? Will there be catastrophic change, is the nation on the cusp of national renewal or will the nation slog on in a malaise? Each President attempts to make his stamp on…
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A Longleaf Pine and Wiregrass ecosystem just north of Apalachicola, Florida USA
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“War and Peace”… In Tolstoy’s house with Ab Abernethy
If you ever go to Russia, you will want to visit the home of Tolstoy and see the actual desk where he wrote so many great novels. It sends chills up your spine. …just finished finishing watching the new BBC mini-series of Leo Tolstoy’s timeless novel “War and Peace”. It was real binge…
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Harper Lee’s ‘other’ novel, by Leabeth Abt
July 14th saw the release of Harper Lee’s ‘other’ novel, and Go Set a Watchman has caused a flurry of activity in the literary world, especially among English Teachers, that iconic group who love to intersperse their daily conversations with quotes anywhere from Shakespeare to Stephen King (depending on their personal proclivities). I must…
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A Petanque Court in Nacogdoches, Texas
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Memorial Day
The American War Between the States claimed more lives than any conflict in U.S. history. Many of the nations first military cemeteries were establishment as a result, memorializing the fallen soldiers of the war, both Federal and Confederate. By the late 1860s Americans had begun holding springtime memorial services to the countless fallen soldiers.
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Spent!
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth….. LEICA M (Typ 240) Apo-Summicron-M 1:2/50 ASPH.