The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than in things. Thomas S. Monson
The Traveler’s Lament Why oh why did I leave the beach? Only to travel through six states to arrive in the land of snow. Perhaps it was to truly feel the Christmas spirit as it’s only two weeks away. A magical snow land where anything is possible.
It was quite the surprise to wake up to six inches of snow that fell last night. After all, wasn’t there a spring like weekend? However did Old Man Winter managed to sneak, back in here? Actually, this snow was a pretty snow, and even though it’s been […]
Snow, snow and more snow. That is what today was all about. This past weekend was a mini vacation for me, and would you believe that I didn’t take any pictures? I have no idea why I didn’t as I had three different cameras on hand. Guess it […]
This morning I headed out to a local park The Patapsco Valley State Park. A perennial favorite for my friend and I to hike. Arriving a little early so that I could explore, I stopped by “Lost Lake” and managed to capture four different birds in one image. The […]
The past weekend was nothing less than an evil tease of spring. Two beautiful balmy and warm days made me believe that winter was fading away. Alas, on February 2, 2014 the world famous ground hog, Punxsutawney Phil poked his little head out of his hole and said […]
It’s been so cold that even the sheep have an extra coat.
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. […]
Being snowed in yesterday, I took the opportunity to continue working on merging my multiple hard drives into one main working drive. Finally getting all of my backed up images onto one 3 Terabyte drive, I imported them into Lightroom. Total image count? 111,236. Yep..over one hundred thousand […]
When I think of the beach, I think of blue skies, balmy breezes, green sea oats and soft sand under my bare feet. I do not think of gray skies, frigid winds, dried sea grasses and frozen ice and snow on the beach. One day perhaps summer […]
Emily Carter ~ Nature as Art 