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A Night of Romance

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Ah - romance! It's been a long time since I had a whole night of it. Now time for a nap...........

Nourish

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Nourish. 52 Photos Project     Wordless Wednesday

Sepia Saturday: Photochrome

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A little color, 1890s style, from around the world. Women of the Caucacus - Library of Congress Collection LC-DIG-ppmsc -03930 Traveling by Reindeer, Archangel, Russia - Library of Congress Collection - hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.03931 Distinguished Moorish Women, Algiers - Library of Congress Collection (LC-DIG-ppmsc-05553) Photochrome prints are  colorized  images produced from black and white photo negatives that are directly transferred onto lithographic printing plates. The process was invented in the 1880s by Hans Jakob Schmid (1856 - 1924). It was popular in the 1890s, when color photography was in existence but still commercially impractical. Sepia Saturday.

Weekend Reflection: Building Skin

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Weekend Reflections this one the skin of a Frank Gehry building EMP Experience Music Project in Seattle.

Theme Thursday: Television

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Theme Thursday The queen of talk.

Ruby Tuesday: Fun at the Beach

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Ruby Tuesday

Weekend Reflection: Before the Virus Laid Me Low

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Reflection from three weeks ago before I was ambushed by the world-class crud and reduced to a feverish, coughing, simpering mess . Weekend Reflections.

Wordless Wednesday: Spring Showoffs

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Ruby Tuesday: Amaryllis

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Ruby Tuesday

Sepia Saturday: Letsinger Brothers of Putnam County

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Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Liljenquist Family Collection LC-DIG- ppmsca-27248 ] This portrait shows brothers William and Phillip J. Letsinger of Company D, 14th Indiana Regiment, posing with rifles in front of Camp Michigan painted backdrop. They enlisted together on June 7, 1861 while living in Putnam County, Indiana. They both were inducted at the rank of private. William was discharged as a private on October 29, 1862.  His brother Phillip, who had been promoted to Corporal, was one of 3252 men killed at Antietam on September 17, 1862. Antietam,  also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, was the first Civil War battle fought on northern territory.  Sepia Saturday.

Theme Thursday: Face

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Today's theme on Theme Thursday  is FACE. Or more accurately FACES. . . .

Share the Joy Thursday

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Mosaic Monday: Idea Seedling

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Oh me oh my! An idea germinated in my head today - more like a command from Spirit. Images just keep popping into my mind like a big mosaic. I'm overwhelmed with possibilities but inspired to shine. Brightly. Bloom on! Mosaic Monday