The Third Act

it's that time again...

Happy Flickrversary to me!  Nineteen years.  Nineteen years??  The little montage below is from my first account on the platform.  Those were the initial images uploaded.  At that time, however, I didn't understand that Flickr was actually a photo sharing social network kind of site.  The only reason I uploaded photos was to be able to put them on my old blog (which became unusable, as in I couldn't access control of it, even though it's clearly still hanging out there!!).  When I started getting views on Flickr I was amazed and thought, "oh, how cool is this?".  And the rest, as they say, is history.

Now, almost two decades later I'm still there, still posting away.  This blog too has seen its progression to the current state.  A lot has transpired in nineteen years.  But I'm still here, kickin' (although those kicks can carry more aches and pains than they used to!!).  I'm grateful for my life, my family and friends.  I'm grateful for the record and art of my photography.  Still learning, experimenting, and some days just putting one foot in front of the other.

 

 

 

And here I am today...fatter and grayer than I was all those years ago (and I'm okay with that....)

leaves (and other stuff)

Every year I have a goal to not throw out any leaves with the trash.  Every year I seem to have a different tactic to do this.  And every year I come mighty close to my goal!  This year I'm blowing anything that falls out back or onto the driveway, out under the trees in back.  What falls on the "lawns" I've been shredding up while mowing whatever green has happened to grow...this goes into the leaf bins.  Today was my second go at this...several more still in store before it's all said and done.  I probably spent three hours this afternoon working on this.

In the morning, I added some new listings to Etsy.  I'm happy to be getting more artwork up, as well as continuing to list vintage items.

It's been a well balanced day.

 

 

 

 

Monday

It was a gorgeous autumn day.  I'm so glad for cool weather...finally.  

Miscellaneous Instax Mini pics below...

 

 

 

 

 

a beautiful November day...

Nothing to tell here...just enjoying the cool air, sunshine and changing leaves on this Sunday afternoon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday

There was an open invite from a friend who is staying at the river house of friends of hers.  So, although we weren't spending the night, Avery and I took a day trip out to the Rappahannock river.  It was cool to see some different countryside in Virginia again.  I want to do more of that kind of exploring.  Avery had a great time smelling all kinds of new smells...but she's still not a super fan of the car.

 

 

 

 

feels like November...finally

After too many days of far too warm temps, today finally feels like November.  A cold front is sweeping down, it's gray and breezy (although, unfortunately, we're not getting much much needed rain).  I had thought to work on leaves and in the garden again today, but it's a little futile while the trees are still shedding heavily.  They're not going anywhere (neither am I), so that'll be put on hold.

Yesterday was a productive day, photographing and listing more vintage items in Baba Yaga's Hermitage Etsy shop.  More photographic artwork will also be going up.  I've been perusing my lumen sets to list.  Two pieces of that kind of work have recently sold, so I'm emboldened to offer more.  

I continue to mull over the idea of publishing a quarterly 'zine, but have yet to get to that project.  It took some digging, but I finally found the one I made on Blurb some years ago.  It was fun perusing it again...and inspiring to go for another.  But I've got...SO...MANY...PROJECTS!  One thing at a time.

 

 

 

 

 

randomness

Today I'm  jumping back into the long list of tasks I need to address.  Said tasks cover all range of things...from art, to garden (clean up), to Etsy listings, and more that are far too boring to address.  In the mean time I like to keep up this blog/Flickr, even if it's just a few images posted.  My brain only rarely offers substantive writing direction, especially when I'm sussing out the "to do"s. 

Anyway...here are few more of the monochrome Instax mini pics.  I rather enjoy the tonal qualities of this film.

 

 

leftover Halloween candy...please, someone, come take these away!

 

Ginter Botanical garden sculpture

 

another sculpture at Ginter

busy

It's been a busy few days.  Friends have been visiting and we've been playing Richmond tourists.  VMFA, Poe Museum, Candela Gallery and Ginter botanical gardens.  In between I've actually made some Etsy sales, which is encouraging...I even sold a piece of artwork!  In the next few days I'll be listing more vintage items and original artwork (in time for the holidays?).  If you're interested, please check out my Etsy shop.

I've been using multiple cameras over the past couple days as well (adding to my collection of film to process!).  Here are a couple Instax mini images from the Poe Museum and one from Ginter botanical garden...

 

 

 

 

miscellaneous

Delaware through the Holga.  Wyoming through the Zeroimage.

 

 

 

 

Colonial Williamsburg...

Here are a few Holga images from a little trip to Colonial Williamsburg, a few weeks ago.  I went with my friend and neighbor and we had a lovely day.  Perhaps color film would have been more suited to the day, but I'm liking these black and white photos.