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I love Autumn.  Cool days, chilly nights, and the freshest morning air of the year.  I like to go outdoors the first couple hours after dawn and take in the pure oxygen that was created overnight (before the rest of the world gets busy and dumps their junk into it). Deeply breathing-in the clean morning air not only feels healthful but also gives me a sense of connecting to nature as part of it. An especially lucky Autumn morning will be overcast. Clouds work, but fog is better.  With fog, dew drips from everything and distances fade into nothingness. This soft white backdrop that increases with distance focuses one's attention on only what'

Art is a refuge. What does it help you to escape? Or if not escape, what does it help you to explore more deeply toward understanding? If not exploration, what does it help you to express?  Variously, art helps me escape, explore or express stress, mystery or obsessions. Doing or viewing art helps me to escape the frustrating elements of life that I cannot change. Politics, economy, job, family, and so on. And when I say "viewing" art, I mean not only visual arts but also music (jazz records, live symphony concerts, rock on the radio), cartoons, movies, and so on. Every person has feelings in their heart and mind that remain mysteries to th

After years of being a member here, I've finally begun adding some of my photos to DeviantArt.  I do have my website (still deciding if I want to list it here), but it's nice to "audition" images here and see what response each receives.  Also, to create images for here has the added benefit of inspiring me actually TO create new images (whereas I am often lazy about doing so, otherwise). Onward...