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It's here it's here!

My contributor's copy arrived today! The
Small Beer Press Working Writer's Day Planner is an awesome resource for writers, including information about grants, submission deadlines, markets, writing prompts, and interviews. That's my photo "Bug Season" in the middle left of the cover pictured above; this photo, and two others of mine, are included inside the planner.
My first photographic work in print! I'm proud that any work of mine has been published by Small Beer Press; that's the dream, kids, that's the dream. At the moment I don't have any writing that's worthy of submitting to them; maybe someday. In the meantime, this.
Labels: publication, Small Beer Press, writing
Tea and a good book

Day 272 of 365.
Labels: 365, everyday life, home, reflection, YIP
Come away, human child

Day 271 of 365.
Labels: 365, nature, shadows, whimsy, YIP
Scarecrow

Day 270 of 365.
Not very scary, I know.
Labels: 365, autumn, color, light, YIP
Shriek

Day 269 of 365.
Another ent. I'm collecting them.
Labels: 365, ents, nature, trees, whimsy, YIP
Cracked

Day 268 of 365.
So my gargoyle's had a broken nose, so what? You wanna make something of it?
Labels: 365, home, light, sepia, statuary, YIP
Sepia dog

Day 267 of 365.
Labels: 365, blixa, family, home, sepia, YIP
Taken by trees

Day 266 of 365.
Labels: 365, color, light, nature, trees, YIP
Evening in South Charleston

Day 265 of 365.
Labels: 365, clouds, light, nature, sky, South Charleston, urban, WV, YIP
Life and death

Day 265 of 365.
Labels: 365, bokeh, cemeteries, Charleston, flora, light, macro, nature, WV, YIP
Always an angel who cares

Day 263 of 365.
Labels: 365, cemeteries, statuary Charleston, WV, YIP
Culture under glass

Day 262 of 365.
Labels: 365, buildings, Charleston, nature, reflection, urban, WV, YIP
DON'T cross the streams

aka "Morning contrails at the house of the dead"
Day 261 of 365.
Labels: 365, architecture, buildings, cemeteries, light, nature, sky, YIP
My old friend

Day 260 of 365.
Labels: 365, cemeteries, Charleston, nature, statuary, WV, YIP
Our lips are sealed

Day 259 of 365.
As seen on a tree in our yard
Labels: 365, color, fungus, light, nature, YIP
Unseen power of the picket fence

Day 258 of 365.
Labels: 365, light, macro, nature, urban, YIP
All we ever look for

Day 257 of 365.
Two of my favorite things, one frame: wet leaves, wet grates.
Labels: 365, leaves, macro, nature, rain, urban, water, YIP
A hurricane triggered by butterfly wings

Day 256 of 365.
Labels: 365, color, macro, nature, YIP
View from a hill

Day 255 of 365.
Labels: 365, bokeh, flora, light, macro, nature, sky, trees, YIP
Koi frenzy

Day 254 of 365.
Labels: 365, abstract, fauna, koi, light, YIP
the downward spiral

Day 252 of 365.
Labels: 365, bokeh, flora, macro, nature, YIP
rushing

Day 251 of 365.
Labels: 365, clouds, nature, sculpture, sky, YIP
not to put too fine a point on it

Day 250 of 365.
"Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul"
--- They Might Be Giants, "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
Labels: 365, home, light, nature, they might be giants, YIP
everything old is new again

Day 249 of 365.
A modern-ish day friendship bracelet - a wrist cuff made for me by my super-talented friend over at
Yarnberd . It's made of an old sweater, and old buttons. Thanks, M!
Labels: 365, crafty, friends, macro, YIP
same thing, different day

Day 248 of 365.
After this I'll leave telephone and electric poles alone for a while, I promise.
Labels: 365, clouds, nature, sky, urban, YIP
Old Greybeard

Day 247 of 365.
My friend Blixa, in a (rare) quiet moment.
Labels: 365, blixa, family, home, macro, YIP
underwater

Day 246 of 365.
More reflection.
Labels: 365, Charleston, reflection, urban, water, WV, YIP
yamaha world

Day 245 of 365.
I am a magpie, of a sort. I like shiny things that reflect. I can't stay away from them.
Labels: 365, Charleston, reflection, urban, WV, YIP
azure ray

Day 244 of 365. Same thing, different day.
Labels: 365, clouds, light, nature, sky, urban, YIP
storm front

Day 243 of 365.
Labels: 365, bokeh, clouds, macro, nature, sky, storms, YIP
Stalking the frog prince

Day 242 of 365.
Labels: 365, Charleston, nature, statuary, whimsy, WV, YIP
everything in it's right place

Day 241 of 365.
Labels: 365, decay, urban, WV, YIP
find a city, find myself a city to live in

It is as the Talking Heads say it is. In the meantime, until I find that city, enjoy a view of Charleston from down by the river (where I do not live in a van).
Labels: 365, buildings, Charleston, urban, WV, YIP