M is for Metaphors.

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source Much is happening in the coming year. For the past year, I’ve been defining myself and my work, considering who my “perfect people” are – those who most connect with my work – and what I might offer of value.
And so I offer my first online workshop.

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N is for National Parks.

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I have a deep and lengthy love affair with the National Parks and Monuments.
https://www.mreavoice.org/wzbbls7 I visited many National Parks on family vacations in the 1960s. Sherpa and I spent our honeymoon at a national park. When our children were of a long distance traveling age, we assembled our family of five and took three-week long, cross-country trips, exploring and camping at National Parks and Monuments whenever we could. Sherpa and I still travel to National Park destinations. And when I travel alone, once again, I map my travels so I can visit the National Parks.
https://www.marineetstamp.com/pzw12i7ol At the end of each year, I note the parks I’ve visited in the past 12 months. They are easy to recall, because I record each visit in a National Park Passport. Whenever I visit a park, I stamp my book. It’s a ritual I’ve been doing since 1997, and I’m currently stamping my third passport book.
Parks I visited in 2013.
On day trips or weekend camping trips in Arizona:
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While traveling on my Circle Tour of Arizona in April, long distance practice for my solo cross-country trip:
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While on my cross-country trek from the Southwest to the Midwest:
https://paradiseperformingartscenter.com/5gohehhlh0 Petrified Forest NP, Mesa Verde NP, Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP, Scotts Bluff NM, Agate Fossil Beds NM, Mount Rushmore NM, Wind Cave NP, Jewel Cave NM, Badlands NP. No wonder it took me so long to get home, zigzagging to visit out-of-the-way parks!
When traveling with family:
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Twenty in all. Wow!
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O is for Oceans.

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https://alldayelectrician.com/lamevzs Some of my most memorable times of this year I spent standing on ocean shores, mesmerized with the infinite waves. I never tired of studying the constant, yet ever-changing waves.
Staring out into the ocean triggers my imagination.
https://penielenv.com/8475s8gqr There is nothing but the relentless pounding surf, and yet an entire world exists in its depths. Even though my feet are solidly upon the sandy or rocky shore, I feel a resonance with the deep beyond, a connection I can only imagine.
Relentless. Changing. Hidden depth. And a connection, strong and intangible.
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P is for Place.

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I am intensely devoted to place.
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I see the sacred in all places.
https://guelph-real-estate.ca/8h26zpe11c There are rare times when I want only to be one with the place, experience it with only with my senses, unencumbered by camera or journal. But I feel most in synch with place when, after I have absorbed the space in quiet, I then reinforce my memory with my photography or journal practice.
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One of my joys, when I contemplate a place, is to take a set of deliberate photographs.
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follow link To collect a set of place photos, I take photographs that may include: a panoramic view, a landscape, perhaps a portrait or an intimate landscape (a photo of a subject in the context of the landscape), and a close up photo.
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When I combine photographs with a few words, I create a photo-journal of place – a contemplative portrait documented in my art.
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