Farmer’s Market in Birmingham, Alabama

As a former Vermonter, i was used to Farmer’s Markets. My favorite thing to do on a Saturday Morning, in Burlington, Vermont, was to grab breakfast. Usually i bought a loaf of homemade bread & some cheese to go with it. i could eat it sitting on Church Street watching the people go by. The…

Burntisland, Scotland

These images were taken by a friend of mine who lives in Scotland. I saw Graeme’s images on facebook & then begged him to share. A wee bio of Graeme: “My name is Graeme & I’m an amateur photographer living in the small seaside town of Burntisland, on Scotland’s east coast. My favourite subjects are…

i put the cat food in the birdcage to keep the opossum…

…from eating the bowl clean. it worked for a few days, but the possum comes every night about midnight (like a werewolf) & he found the food after three days. sadly, i wake up to the sounds of the starving cats, weak from hunger, because they only have food in their bowl from 6am until 11ish…

you stand out

the mandolin with the different color is wrong…do you think the Maker designed that one odd-colored mandolin to be better or worse than all the others? i suppose the multitude can decide. i know it a reflection…just making a point. no matter how differently we look from one another, at least its nice to know…

color me red

The camera has a difficult capturing the color red. pumping up the photo with saturation makes red bleed like blood. however, if red isn’t matching what your eye saw when shooting it, then the best way to make it come to life is to add warmth instead of saturation. 

water bonds with itself

perfectly captured on my Hosta (well it was mine, but i’ve moved on, quite happily) me & water made the painting above

Birmingham, Alabama’s pagan god

Birmingham, Alabama, the so called “Bible Belt” has the god of Forage standing atop Red Mountain. He stands above & facing, the city of Birmingham…& behind him stands the small town of Homewood. The thing about men who worked in a forage is this, they worked with extreme heat. more often then not, they worked…