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once in a blue moon

Tonight there will be a blue moon, meaning a second full moon within a month’s time. Since it is also New Year’s Eve, some friends and I took a little woodland hike during the afternoon, instead of this evening when we’ll all be toasty warm by the firesides with our families.

My knowledge of local flora is woefully inadequate, so I will just call this what we’ve always called this type of plant: a foxtail.

Here’s a close view of a little stream we encountered. (The water is so clear and and still, you might miss it!)

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iced dogwood


For those of you reading from more tropical climes, here’s a little taste of what it looks like here in the Midwest.

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daughter of a friend

Today was quite nice because I had uninterrupted time to work on my primary focus this year–aside from enjoying momhood. Although the photos were taken a couple of weeks ago, I am just now getting around to selecting, cropping, etc. My friend Rachel is also dancing “la Mom-ba” with her daughter, the subject in these pictures. Here is this morning’s output:





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my dance partner (1st post)

For ten years my identity has been closely tied to my career as a high school English teacher; however, I am taking this year off in order to enjoy my son’s senior year in high school. In order to chronicle this year, I purchased a new camera and have been quite busy getting my money’s worth. This is the first picture that I took of my dance partner with the Nikon D50. It was taken this summer in the courtyard of Willard Residence Hall on the campus of Northwestern University.

In addition to taking senior pictures of my first (and only) born, I plan to share some of the other activities that I choose to do while he is at school for eight hours a day.