Category: Photography
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Memoir Continued – Taken In
Taken In By Paternal Grandparents We were taken in by my paternal grandparents (William and Dora). They converted their large chicken coop into a small cottage, where we lived for our first couple of years in Ohio. My grandparent’s place was located out on Antrim Road, technically in Elyria, but just south of the Lorain…
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Memoir Continued – The Move
The Move From Boston to Lorain At the tender age of 6 weeks, I was bundled up and packed into Dad’s flashy, vintage 1917 rag-top Buick Roadster; and we set out across the mountains of Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania, on what was called, the Old Mohawk Trail, and finally into Ohio several days later,…
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Dubious Ties – Memoir Continued
Dubious Ties? From shortly after their marriage, and until mid ’47, Mary and Ted ran a dry cleaning store in Dorchester, a suburb of Boston. One of the stories from that time is that there were ‘numbers’ run out of the basement or back room of the business by the local chapter of “the mob,”…
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The Colors Spell of Life
The Colors Spell of Life emotions color thewhole-cloth of our livesis love white, pink, perhapsblood-red… loveone degree north of hate is averice the greenof envy or does green indicate a love of nature all fauna yet anotherdegree of love anger may be crimsonor perhaps ultravioletrage just low energy segments of the color spectrum woven in so we sing the…
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Kent State – Remember
May 4th, 1970, The Ohio National Guard murdered four students at Kent State, and I snapped. I joined the marches… It was my rage over all the murders and the helpless futility I felt at the deaths of Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, and others. They were called O.D.s, but what is death by overdose? The use…
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S.O.S.
Concieved while working on my Memoir – Family History: During WWII, my dad was a radio operator on a Merchant Marine Tanker supplying the US Navy’s War Machine in the south Pacific. During wartime, the Merchant Marine becomes an Auxilary of the Navy. Dad received his training to become a radio operator at Great Lake…
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Introduction to My Memoir
Introduction It’s been an interesting adventure, _ _ years to date. While much of this journey has been difficult, there have been some very good times along the way. I’ve been looking over my journals, trying to decide what to share and what should be left shrouded in the mists of time. As a practical…
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Writing a Memoir for My Family
Writing A Memoir For My Family I’m writing a memoir/family history (from my personal journals, memories, and family stories I heard while growing up) for my children and theirs. I wish my parents and grandparents had done this for my generation. It is an explanation of the paths I chose or, for whatever reason, was…
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Watercolor Rorschach-like Test in Burnt Umber
Rorschach-Like Test In Burnt Umber Homemade Watercolor Paint powdered iron oxidemediums and bindersproduces quality shadesthe earthy brownsof Burnt Umber water makes it flowinteresting shapesand textures when dryon hot or cold pressrag paper and yupo meditating on thetextured shapesrevealed from dryingtime variances findunconscious designs –LE What do you see in it? Some say it’s a buffalo……
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Making Watercolor Paints
I attended a watercolor paint making seminar last weekend. Here’s the result. Making Watercolors mixing pigmentswith mediums andbinders – Gum Aribichoney – GlycerinThyme Oil pigments – powderedLapis Lazuli forPersian Blue whilered Jasper powdermakes red earthy hues yellows and ocresneed poweredTurmeric for sunbathed desertand beach views a primary color palettewatercolor painting the simple secret known for…
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