Does this look like a dying woman to you? Me either. I just walked in from drinking iced coffee and smoking a cigarette on my porch where I’d been thinking about this blog. My watch said 12:30 AM. (I threw this out-of-focus one in to frustrate your sense of composition) I keep wanting to move the frame up! Chuckle… I am bored with all this talk of dying. I thought the Crematory… Read More
Category: Black & White Photographs, Blogs, Photographs Tags: Black and White photographs, Blogs, Death and Dying, Monochrome, Philosophy, self-portrait
I have a terminal illness. I am neither afraid of it nor unhappy about it. I am seventy-two years old. I have finished my work here. I will spend my remaining months doing whatever suits me. I have said pretty much what I thought in all of my posts here. So, I felt pretty silly titling the posts Last Hurrah #1, #2, etc. Why would anybody do that? It sounds coy to… Read More
Category: Adventures, Photographs, Photography Tags: Death and Dying, photographs, photography
She Kept A Parrot
Death of a Staghorn
We celebrate Birth and Life. We avert our eyes from Death and Dying. We see life in Kodachrome. We see Death in monochrome. After the recent freeze, I went into the garden on a mission to study death and dying in the plant life there. I made many photographs of what I saw. I want to share the death of the Staghorn here. After the frost, The Staghorn anchor leaves changed from tender green… Read More
Category: Bokeh, Photography, Photos by George, Plants and Trees Tags: Death, Death and Dying, Frost, Garden, Philosophy, photographs, photography, Photos, Plants, Seasons, Social Commentary, Staghorn Fern, Stories, Winter