Painfully Hopeful

Oh Slush!

This past week the Northeast was supposed to suffer from a Pi-Day Blizzard. Much of the Northeast did, indeed, experience a Pi-Day Blizzard. We got slush. I’m not a fan of snow. I like it once during the Winter so I can take some pictures and enjoy its beauty, but after that I’m fine if…

Unpacking Moving South

This was a shorter scene this week, but I spent time mapping out the rest of the story so I’m feeling accomplished anyway. Let’s unpack. Angry Sills Sills has good cause to be angry. One of the reason’s she’s Nobody’s handler is to make certain he doesn’t say anything like, “We’re all doomed.” Saying it…

Fiction Tuesday – Moving South

Today’s blog continues my long-neglected satirical fantasy, In The Land of the Penny Gnomes Will didn’t really know how to read Sills. Granted he’d not known her all that long, but in his eyes she appeared to be an unflappable professional. She had a job to do, and she would do it, personal feelings be…

Sparking the Roaring 20’s

This weekend I managed to attended two presentations of my eldest’s school play, Thoroughly Modern Millie. It’s been my practice to take photos of the show and share them with the cast and family, and this year was no exception. This year I decided to do more than simply share a Flickr Album 1. I…

Drama Photography

My daughter is in a lot of drama 1. This means I get called upon to take photos of her various performances, and often end up feeling inadequate. I’ve found shooting drama performances an interesting challenge, because you can’t really “cheat” and manage take a decent image of the stage. I almost always shoot in…

A Minor Reservation

Most of the properties along the river have pretty blunt “private property” signs along the riverbank. These are probably posted strictly for insurance purposes, because I’ve never seen anyone chasing people away from the banks in my fourteen years here in Palmyra. One property, however, takes a slightly different route. They have a comfy bench,…