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Southern Alabama

July 14, 2009

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Having just about completed my move to Fairhope Alabama, I am celebrating today and all the great days along the Mobile Bay!!

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Changing

I have a flower box sitting on the steps of my front porch. It was planted with pansies early in the spring this year. They have survived the hot dry summer and now in the cooler weather of fall they are again producing abundant blooms. As I walked onto the porch with my camera the other day I noticed that the three largest blooms were lined up ... so photogenic... and atypical for a pot of flowers to behave this way. They didn't stay lined up very long, so this is a 'moment' in our changing Universe.

Cast Net Fishing

Late afternoon on the banks of the Ohio River in Madison Indiana offered a surprise for me. There was a man using a cast net to fish. It was a surprise for me because as long as I have lived near the Ohio and Kentucky Rivers I have never seen anyone use a cast net. When I lived on the Gulf Coast in Alabama, it was a daily event for me to watch the cast net fishermen carefully gather the net in a very specific way and heave the large round net over their heads...releasing it at just the perfect moment to fall in the water in a wide circle of a net over whatever is swimming below in the water. It is a wonderful thing to watch the precision and timing involved. So to see it unexpectedly on the banks of the Ohio River was a real treat. If you look in the lower right corner of the river scene below the bridge you will see the cast net fisherman with the net in mid-air. Wonderful surprises await us every day, just keep your eyes open.

what is real....

One of the things that always amazed me was that nature could give you a picture of something that if you tried to make it up you just couldn't. When I painted using watercolor I usually 'made' up my landscapes and skyscapes, some of them were truly imaginative, and in the realm of seeming impossible. So now as I spend time behind the lens I take pictures and think that if I made that up it wouldn't seem possible. Just remember to keep your imagination alive and creating because Mother Nature offers you an example a minute of creativity and reality. Being Real...Light-Feather.

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