I never gave the origins of the statement “cotton pickin’” or the definition much thought. It was a phrase I rarely heard, except maybe on Saturday morning cartoons with Bugs Bunny. Then it just seemed like a made up phrase. Today, as my husband picked a single piece of cotton from a cotton field in [...]
D31: Nothin' But a Number
Tomorrow is a big day. Ron Dawson turns …. oh, never mind the number. But it’s his birthday! Since I’ll be on a plane leaving town tomorrow, I decided to take him out for dinner and a movie. I’d already taken some images in the backyard of the tall trees and changing colors of the [...]
D26: Embracing My New Life
This is what my life has become. Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration. But maybe not. I am thinking, breathing, reading, writing, practicing, and talking about photography every single day. I see pictures everywhere I go and feel like my camera is attached at my hip. I never thought that taking on this challenge would so [...]






