nature

even the highways are lovely

20 January 2012
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Took this on the way to the Pittsburgh airport.  My dad was driving and I was trying to drink in all the east coast loveliness of Pennsylvania.  This photo, at this size, doesn’t do it justice, but believe me when I say that even the freeways are pretty in PA. Rolling hills, ancient trees, acres [...]

the vine

14 January 2012
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look here

7 January 2012
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When the leaves turn color in California it makes me home sick for the east coast.  When I saw these beauties on a morning walk I ran back to get my camera, and played around with the focus to make sure that you would see what I saw.

morning light

25 December 2011
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When I was growing up we took a lot of road trips, and I spent hours looking out the window at the sky and rolling hills of Pennsylvania. I also spent a fair amount time arguing with my brother for doing incredibly annoying things like breathing on my side of the back seat. But that’s [...]

daisy

15 December 2011
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Having fun with my new iPhone’s camera… how great is the clarity in this picture?!

snow or sand?

23 September 2011
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I saw this from the plane in August, and it looked a lot like snow. But since I wasn’t, you know, flying over the Andes, I’m guessing it must be sand.

clouds

20 September 2011
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I still remember the disappointment I felt when I learned that clouds were not, in fact, big fluffy cotton balls in the sky. I feel a shade of that disappointment when I’m on a plane that flies through cloud cover… nothing but dark gray and turbulence. On my most recent flight, however, I had cloud [...]

at sunset

14 September 2011
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I was playing cards with my family on the patio, and they patiently waited while I grabbed a few shots in the evening light.

on the vine

8 September 2011
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After you’ve had a tomato that was actually ripened on the vine, and then picked by you, and eaten while still warm from the sun, it’s hard to really enjoy tomatoes you find in the grocery store. These are growing in my mom’s garden, and when I look at the shot I can remember the [...]

end of summer

1 September 2011
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I visited my parents in PA a few weeks ago and had been looking forward to picking berries from their blueberry bushes. Blueberries cost a fortune where I live, and they’re never quite as good as the ones my mom grows. So you can imagine my dismay when my mom announced she was going to [...]