Tag Archives: Photography

Wordless Wednesday: Found Turtle

Posted on April 24, 2013 by dearrosie

“A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out.” – Korean Proverb   This post is part of Cee’s Wordless Wednesday    

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Why this love of tattoos?

Posted on April 20, 2013 by dearrosie

I wept when I looked at the close-up photo of a number tattooed on a woman’s arm at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. When I stepped back to blow my nose and allow a group of teenagers … Continue reading →

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a walk in my neighborhood

Posted on March 9, 2013 by dearrosie

Condition your body to get up every day and go for a walk. Before I walked on the Camino I learned to make walking my state of being, something I integrated into my life, not an exercise or a chore … Continue reading →

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lost in the details…

Posted on March 1, 2013 by dearrosie

This post is part of “WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge” Lost in the details  According to my car thermometer it was 87 degrees F at 2:30pm today. On warm spring days like today I could almost do a Baryshnikov-type ballet leap … Continue reading →

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the Kiss …

Posted on February 15, 2013 by dearrosie

WordPress Photo Challenge this week is Kiss. I photographed this mural in downtown Los Angeles – near Mac Arthur park. President Obama keep your promise and bring our young men and women home! For other WP posts on this week’s … Continue reading →

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home = snowshoes or walk on the beach?

Posted on February 13, 2013 by dearrosie

Last Saturday night Monty Carlo woke us up at 4 a.m when he heard someone banging on our neighbor’s door. I heard a man say, “It’s Jason, I’m looking for my wife. Where’s Stephanie?” I didn’t hear the answer. Mr … Continue reading →

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I lived with a barbed-wire fence in my mouth

Posted on January 30, 2013 by dearrosie

That day so many years ago when my dentist requested a meeting with my mother I already knew it wasn’t going to be good news, because he usually ended our visits repeating the same old story about brushing our teeth … Continue reading →

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Līgo Weekly 220w Challenge – España

Posted on January 22, 2013 by dearrosie

I was going to show you the early signs of spring in my neighborhood in this post – there are blossoms on the flowering cherry trees – but when I saw that this week’s theme at Līgo Weekly 220w challenge … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

Posted on December 29, 2012 by dearrosie

WordPress photo challenge this week is My 2012 in pictures. 2012 was an exciting, eventful, wonderful year for me.  I fulfilled a long-time personal challenge to walk along the Camino to Santiago de Compostela, my beautiful daughter got married in … Continue reading →

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Museum Musings: call the manager

Posted on December 24, 2012 by dearrosie

Happy Holidays y’all.  Every Christmas Eve since 1984 – from dusk to eleven pm, rain or shine – The Magical Christmas Caroling Truck, a sixty-two foot eighteen-wheeler flatbed truck decorated with Christmas scenes, thousands of lights, and a powerful sound … Continue reading →

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