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Monthly Archives: December 2017

Spider Gets Christmas Eve Dinner

December 26, 2017by tompostpile 2 Comments

We were visiting, making some stops onChristmas Eve afternoon. We’d taken some gifts to friends, and were sitting in their living room. A flutter of motion under a bookcase caught […]

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2017, Nature, photograph

Christmas Parade Scenes: The Waiting

December 24, 2017by tompostpile Leave a comment

Every year, Falmouth, Massachusetts has a Christmas Parade. This parade has become one of my favorite Falmouth events. The community comes out in force, both in participating in the parade […]

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2017, Christmas, photograph

Coquina “Sits” For Pictures

December 23, 2017by tompostpile 1 Comment

Coquina’s doing splendidly. Here are a set of portraits from this morning. The strong puppy is getting stronger. She can’t leap buildings in a single bound, but she can do […]

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2017, Coquina, photograph

In the Old Field at Sunset.

December 22, 2017by tompostpile Leave a comment

At sunset on the first day of winterI took a walk in an old field. It’s a fine old field. It’s been kept mowed, but has not been plowed in […]

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2017, Color, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, West Tisbury

Fallen, Drifted, and Stranded

December 21, 2017by tompostpile Leave a comment

A few years ago, a big maple tree somewhere lost a very big branch. The branch somehow made it to the ocean. And in a storm, the branch somehow made […]

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Quansoo at Day’s End

December 20, 2017by tompostpile 1 Comment

“It’s fifty degrees and calm at four o’clock in the afternoon, so it will be nice and pleasant down at the beach…” That’s what I thought when I got in […]

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2017, Birds, Color, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, Quansoo

The Dog Did An Interesting Thing

December 18, 2017by tompostpile 1 Comment

We had been to the beach, dog and I. The light was still strong but was soon to fade. The sun was falling toward the horizon. Shadows were lengthening. When […]

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2017, Coquina, Martha's Vineyard, photograph, Quansoo

Flowers from 9 Degrees

December 17, 2017by tompostpile Leave a comment

Nine degrees. That’s not far north of the equator. While it’s not nine degrees on Martha’s Vineyard right now, it did get close to that the other night, out on […]

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2017, Color, Costa Rica, Flowers, Nature, photograph, Travel

Mining the Archives

December 16, 2017by tompostpile 1 Comment

Some of my photographs have been “packed away” in backup, and after a period in limbo, are now accessible to me again. I’ve been poking through these thousands of images. […]

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2017, Art, Color, Nature, photograph

Three Experiments

December 15, 2017by tompostpile Leave a comment

Three experiments. One. Two. Three.

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2017, Abstracts, Color, Light Painting, photograph, Uncategorized

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