blessingx
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A couple more at Filoli with the same gear
Christmas in B&W
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dave lackey
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That’s cool!!!😎😎😎
dave lackey
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This is really cool! Straight out of something I remember in the past!🙂🙂🙂
Taipei-metro
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December,
Arcadia, Los Angeles County, USA
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Pentax APSC KS-1,
Ricoh Pentax 18-55
Arcadia, Los Angeles County, USA
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Pentax APSC KS-1,
Ricoh Pentax 18-55
Retro-Grouch
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Not sure if I posted this previously; if so, my apologies.
There's a ratty little pine tree in our yard that gets transformed for three weeks of each year into a thing of light and beauty. This is my partner showing off his handiwork...
There's a ratty little pine tree in our yard that gets transformed for three weeks of each year into a thing of light and beauty. This is my partner showing off his handiwork...
gb hill
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Looks really great. A lovely 3 weeks.
airfrogusmc
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Vince Lupo
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Taipei-metro
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December,
Arcadia, Los Angeles County, USA
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Pentax APSC KS-1,
Ricoh Pentax 18-55
Arcadia, Los Angeles County, USA
Img by Taipei-metro
Pentax APSC KS-1,
Ricoh Pentax 18-55
airfrogusmc
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rhl-oregon
Cameras Guitars Wonders
12/13/23: Highway 88 on North Fork of the New River, Creston, North Carolina—driving home after visiting an old friend I’d not seen since summer 2016 in Oregon.
I’ve known Jefferson Boyer since the late 70s when he was finishing his cultural anthropology thesis on agrarianism in Chapel Hill. My girlfriend was his colleague; he was the only married graduate student in that cohort.
He’s now retired from UNC-Boone (Appalachian State), and I now live 10 miles south in Todd NC. We are widowers, and we are happily remarried. I last saw him in Eugene, Oregon when he came to say goodbye to Sandra Morgen, my wife, his old friend. In the photograph above his wife Helen Blevins is retrieving a 1973 photograph of the grad students they were, he and Sandi and the rest.
Jeff grew up in Oregon; I grew up in North Carolina. Now we are neighbors in the same Blue Ridge county—not far from Tennessee, not far from Virginia. He sings tenor in St. Luke’s Episcopal in Boone; I sing tenor in St. Mary’s Episcopal in West Jefferson. We’re planning to meet up again soon, during the 12 days of Christmas maybe, this time with Linn and Helen. All four of us had earlier lives and loves, mistakes and miracles. There’s more to talk about.
This reunion was a sunny day after the first snow; it’s snowing again as I write, and the trucks are clearing Highway 194 before sunrise. How many reunions remain?
The New River flows north to Virginia, the old and perpetually renewed Jesus sign stands between it and the rocky hillside on a long curve. You don’t have to agree with it to know you need to take care, watch out for your neighbors, cherish the moments we have. Be safe on the solstice and eve of 2024. Your loved ones are waiting.
I’ve known Jefferson Boyer since the late 70s when he was finishing his cultural anthropology thesis on agrarianism in Chapel Hill. My girlfriend was his colleague; he was the only married graduate student in that cohort.
He’s now retired from UNC-Boone (Appalachian State), and I now live 10 miles south in Todd NC. We are widowers, and we are happily remarried. I last saw him in Eugene, Oregon when he came to say goodbye to Sandra Morgen, my wife, his old friend. In the photograph above his wife Helen Blevins is retrieving a 1973 photograph of the grad students they were, he and Sandi and the rest.
Jeff grew up in Oregon; I grew up in North Carolina. Now we are neighbors in the same Blue Ridge county—not far from Tennessee, not far from Virginia. He sings tenor in St. Luke’s Episcopal in Boone; I sing tenor in St. Mary’s Episcopal in West Jefferson. We’re planning to meet up again soon, during the 12 days of Christmas maybe, this time with Linn and Helen. All four of us had earlier lives and loves, mistakes and miracles. There’s more to talk about.
This reunion was a sunny day after the first snow; it’s snowing again as I write, and the trucks are clearing Highway 194 before sunrise. How many reunions remain?
The New River flows north to Virginia, the old and perpetually renewed Jesus sign stands between it and the rocky hillside on a long curve. You don’t have to agree with it to know you need to take care, watch out for your neighbors, cherish the moments we have. Be safe on the solstice and eve of 2024. Your loved ones are waiting.
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sojournerphoto
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These are lovely words as well as pictures RHL-Oregon. Thank you for sharing.
My mother, now 86, is visiting us this week. She is delighted to have coincided her visit with my daughters’ return from college for Christmas - they are now 21 and 18, time flies by.
I collected her last Saturday and on Sunday her day was made up when our niece, aged 28, also arrived to visit. Our daughters knew she was coming but we hadn’t been advised🙂 Then, on Monday, my youngest had a college friend arrive for a couple of days. It’s been lovely to have them all feel free to visit and to stay.
Next Saturday, I will drive her back to my brother’s house, where she now lives, and she will be visiting another brother and his family (I have 3!) for Christmas Day. After that she may return for New Year as she will otherwise be alone in a large and cold house.
This afternoon she is catching up ion Netflix and knitting🙂
My mother, now 86, is visiting us this week. She is delighted to have coincided her visit with my daughters’ return from college for Christmas - they are now 21 and 18, time flies by.
I collected her last Saturday and on Sunday her day was made up when our niece, aged 28, also arrived to visit. Our daughters knew she was coming but we hadn’t been advised🙂 Then, on Monday, my youngest had a college friend arrive for a couple of days. It’s been lovely to have them all feel free to visit and to stay.
Next Saturday, I will drive her back to my brother’s house, where she now lives, and she will be visiting another brother and his family (I have 3!) for Christmas Day. After that she may return for New Year as she will otherwise be alone in a large and cold house.
This afternoon she is catching up ion Netflix and knitting🙂
Vince Lupo
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In our family no Christmas was complete without the Queen's Christmas message.
L1001421 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
L1001421 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Taipei-metro
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Joseph (?), Mary and an Electric deer,
Arcadia, Los Angeles County, USA
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Pentax 20MP APSC KS-1,
Ricoh SMC Pentax 18-55
Arcadia, Los Angeles County, USA
Img by Taipei-metro
Pentax 20MP APSC KS-1,
Ricoh SMC Pentax 18-55
vitaly66
slightly tilted
a broker's christmas...
Pentax K-3, K24mm/2.8
Pentax K-3, K24mm/2.8
gb hill
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Blessings to you Robert. So good to read you are doing well. I’ve been thinking about you. So I see you are now a mountain man. Good for you. Hope that your Christmas is wonderful & keep posting.
gb hill
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Christmas is upon us but keep posting your B&W treasure’s.
Bill Blackwell
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markjwyatt
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neal3k
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Great Wall Foma 100 004 by Neal Wellons, on FlickrGreat Wall DF-4 120 format SLR, Great Wall 90mm f/3.5 lens and Foma 100 film. Hampton, Georgia
We're Ready - Holga 120Pan by Neal Wellons, on FlickrHolga 120Pan with Foma 400 film.
Henry County, Georgia
