I haven’t been to the fitness center (it had gotten to the point where getting there and back was taking up too much of the day and I can exercise other ways) and anyway we used to go a different way when I went regularly. Jill has kept going »
Archive of journal entries by colin
I feel like we never see mist locally. It might just be that I grew up with real, dense fogs. Or that I’m not normally one for getting out of bed early, and so the mist has always gone already by the time I look out the »
I get out of the house most afternoons, typically mid to late afternoon, but this day being extra late collided with the short days after the winter solstice. And although I went for a walk into town, I had my camera with me, and on the »
The jury for the The Guild of Artists & Artisans has accepted one of my greeting card sets for their 2023 Holiday Artist Market, which runs November 24 – December 23.
I’ve taken four of the photographs I made of flowers in our back garden and put them together into a new boxed set which I am calling “Flora For”. As ever, the cards and envelopes are made from recycled paper materials and I have found a new box which, »
One of the things I like about my camera is that almost all the controls/settings, certainly the ones I use most, are all external knobs and dials rather than being buried in menus. Before heading home from Burr Oak State Park we went for another hike, the opposite direction »
We were in S Ohio to visit the sister of one of Jill’s college friends and her husband and staying at the lodge in the Burr Oak State Park. We had gone for a short walk after we arrived and the next morning I went to see if the »
My friend Lynda Cole is a member at the WSG gallery here in Ann Arbor. Through July 8, they are have a ‘Member and Special Guests’ exhibition, and Lynda very kindly invited me to be her guest. I was able to use my new, custom »
Another week, another Wednesday, another warming, and another walk. We decided to stop at the Dexter-Huron Metropark. The trails had not been cleared of snow, but it was walkable, although it meant it was a a little slower for Jill.
For the most part, the trail was not »