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#AprilPhotoChallenge: 16-30

It  has been a great month for photography.  And I think that my photo skills are growing. My most frequent limitations have been when I have great ideas for a shot, but my time is limited or the weather is uncooperative. #16. Glass Mid-April brought 80 degree weather and blue skies to the peninsula.  Burgers and brews…

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Happy 400th, Will!

In honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, it’s time to raise a glass to The Bard. The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell. “Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used.”  Iago, Othello the Moor of Venice (II. iii) “O thou invisible spirit…

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#AprilPhotoChallenge: 1-15

My friend and I continue the challenge with a new list and posting it on FB. This month’s challenge is Fat Mum Slim’s Photo a Day Challenge.   I have become a big fan of her page.  I recommend checking it out. #1. Yellow It was a windy and chilly day at the Toledo Botanical Garden with…

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Wine Quotes

  Wine and Age “Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.” — Anonymous “A man not old, but mellow, like good wine.” — Stephen Phillips, Ulysses, III. ii “What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.” — Thomas Moore, National Airs, Spring and Autumn “Alonso of…

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Making of a Burley Klingon

  “Heels and red lipstick will put the fear of God into people.” — Dita Von Teese, on what she’s learned being a burlesque star But then add forehead ridges and bat’leth.  You’ll be thanking the stars that you were there. In January, I traveled to Austin to watch my sister perform with the Austin Burlesque Alliance’s…

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Paulo Coelho on Love

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” Paulo Coelho (via quotemadness)