Author: Laurie

  • Sandy and I and Anne, a new co-worker, went on a short hike on the Reedy Fork Trail, one of Greensboro’s many trails around our reservoir lakes. Love this running cedar. Either we took a wrong turn or the trail vanished. It was in need of maintenance. We ended up crossing a power line right-of-way,…

  • Lucy is quite camera shy for some reason. I usually turn off the flash so I don’t know why. Pablocito (here) and Diego get very excited when I change the sheets on the bed. Lucy was actually interacting with Pablo, who was under the sheets rolling around. This is a good sign. This is going…

  • Playing with a photo app on my Kindle, thinking about weaving tapestry again.

  • Love this texture. Snow plow with a message.

  • Today is the first full day I’ve gotten off because of snow in a long time! I can walk to work and I don’t have children, so usually I end up going in. But the university was closed today. Yay! So I fired up the wood stove and played with weaving some denim strips. I…

  • We had snow today. This is from when it was first beginning. We spotted our local red-tailed hawk in a fir tree outside my office window, right in the middle of this photo. He stayed there grooming for a long time. The second is a zoom photo. I’ve seen him up close before – he…

  • A pair of doves raises a family close by every year. I wonder what birds do when the temps change so drastically within 24 hours. It must be hard to adjust. Theo always looks traumatized whether he is or not. But in this photo, he really is. Pablo is the top bully in the house,…

  • This is what you get for action photos of the kittens until I get the good camera fixed. Blue and orange has become my favorite color combination.

  • Every now and then I like to search for “slowly she turned” and blog the short descriptions from the search page. Usually the hits are from fan fiction or torrid romances. Here are ten. “Slowly she turned to face the door just as Graham came through at full stride. At the sight of him a…