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A peaceful day on the bay, calm waters and blue skies. Nothing else needed.

The path…

We call it “someday” so we won’t have to feel pressure.

Beautiful red oak up the driveway in its autumn glory in Minnesota #LandscapePhotography #Nature #Autumn #ECK #Minnesota

Newlyweds

Who has the most fun at weddings? We do…

“The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind." - Carly Simon

My daughter showed me a new tool that recorks wine bottles. I don’t need one. 😜

Bought flour and sugar today. Still not sealed tight. None of us have ever cared.

The grey-headed canary-flycatcher 13cm Pakistan and the Himalayas through India, China, Southeast Asia, to Indonesia. insectivorous small gnats, mosquitoes, dipteran flies, beetles, wasps, moths, and other tiny invertebrates. flycatcher-like sallies from a perch to catch aerial insects

The newer kind of wind mills…

I’m just not feeling good about, well, anything.

Why do we treat the world like it was only for us? We constantly “take and use.”

Dr. Margaret Allen: the first woman to perform a heart transplant (Stanford, 1985). • 1985: Founded the first heart transplant program, U. of Washington Med Center & served as its director until 1996 • 1994: First woman president, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) #WomenInSTEM #MedSky

You can go home again…the Kansas prairie.

Quote skeet what you bring to interviews instead of iced coffee. Wrong answer only.

A reunion with my brothers after 15 years. 87,85, 80. We had a grand time! Bunch of old coots.

My phone reminded me that I took this picture ten years ago today. Quite possibly the single most beautiful day I’ve ever had in the Wasatch Mountains.

Sunflowers everywhere!

“Where’s Chris?” “I don’t know.” “You told him three o’clock?” “Like ten times.” “Fucking drummers.” “Should we wait a little longer?” “Screw him, take the picture.”

Turns out, you can go back again…

Get off your butts. Don’t sit for long periods.

Tell yourself to sit up straight and to throw your shoulders back when you are upright!

#Brittany #France À pleasure for all senses. #photography

Scary

Life never gets any easier so celebrate when you can

From the archives. Somewhere in France.

It feels good to put some passion in your life.

Another idol! I feel dangerously close…

It’s impossible to calculate how much of what I’ve been able to accomplish is because of women like Gloria Steinem. Rest in power. www.npr.org/2026/09/03/n...

My new painting with autumn flowers

Kayaking days

Spend more time with the folks you love.

Have a list of “Somewheres” to go when you don’t want to be where you are.

Dolly Parton was my idol.

grandpa and i planted a couple of matchbox cars in his yard when i was little and it was so gratifying to watch them grow as i got older