Why We Dodge Writing Those Difficult Scenes

I might have posted this pic before, but I recently put my screensaver on slide show and I saw this one from a couple of years ago go by. Kind of fun to see your own photograph and think it’s cool. It’s appropriate, too, because we had a rainy weekend. Very unusual for us, especially given the severe drought in…

Playing with the New Toys

  One of the best parts of Christmas as a kid was playing with the new toys. It didn’t really matter what you got or how much. It was the thrill of a new thing and the free time to play with it. I remember riding my bike around the cul-de-sac one particularly sunny Denver Christmas. Or spending the day…

One Great Novel

This is actually the same sunset that I posted on the blog November 3, but with a different camera and settings. In case any of you are as geeky as I am and like to compare. Come on, you like it, you know you do. I don’t typically read a lot of writing craft books these days. I have my…

Seeing Through the Fog

Overnight, all those overcast skies that have haunted us dropped down into the valley. I think this is a better photograph, more dramatic. I used the telephoto lens to show you how really neat it looks. But that perspective is a bit misleading. Here’s how it looks with my other lens, that I usually use for landscapes. Now it looks…

Road Trip!

We went on a road trip on Sunday. Headed for parts unknown, but desertish. One has to be careful with those unknown desertish parts, because here there be dinosaurs.And something that I first thought to be the Easter Bunny, influenced perhaps by the Easter Sunday stuff all over the car radio. On second thought…. no, I’m not really sure what…