Category Archives: My Fifty-Two

Early in my career as a photographer I worked for a local newspaper. One of my weekly challenges was capturing at least one photo that told a story about the community, school, or specials events. As a farmer’s daughter my favorite story to tell was at harvest time. In mid September I would start visiting farmers...

Every season of the year I make it a point to drive a few miles along country road not far from the farm. Pastures on one side and crop land on the other, a perfect picture of agriculture in the country. This year has been a bit different. As the crops in the adjacent fields are...

Watching the zookeeper at the National Zoo give an elephant a pedicure I realized I had never thought about elephant toes. Why had I never noticed that elephants have toes? Like an earworm song that sticks in your mind, and will not leave no matter how much you try, I couldn’t shake the thought that I...

This is a short version of a reading shared with a friend in our younger days. Our lives were busy we didn’t always have time to read the full version. When one of us was complaining about a challenge in our lives, the other would simply say,  “Live today, yesterday is done, and who knows what’s...