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Hot Air Balloons
We often see hot air balloons drifting over our neighborhood. Sometimes we can hear the faint whoosh of the burner flame when they are flying low. One morning a balloon unexpectedly landed in the...
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Week 27: Balloon Landing
Panel with under-painting of the balloon. In this week’s collage I tried to capture the odd occurrence of a hot air balloon landing in our neighborhood. This was an actual real life event, although the...
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Week 29: Vacation!
In a few days we will be departing suburbia! We’re flying to California for a much needed vacation visiting family and friends. I’ll get my big city fix in San Francisco, plus family time in the Bay...
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Week 34: Flashlight Tag
Flashlight tag is one of the great joys of summer for the neighborhood kids. Just last weekend, my son hosted a sleep-over with six of his buddies. As soon as the sun went down, flashlight tag was the...
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Week 35: Small Wonders
The Amazing Spider Web We have been observing some interesting happenings in the neighborhood. Spider webs the size of tractor tires are strung up between trees and lamp posts, with threads that...
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Week 36: Friendship
This collage is inspired by my 20+ year friendship with my dear college friend, J. P. I went to visit her recently in New York City, planning to help out after she underwent some major surgery. She is...
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Week 38: Holly’s Escape
Our corner of suburbia is perched on a high hill overlooking woods, farmland, grassy expanses, and a distant sliver of the Blue Ridge Mountains. On my daily walk with our dog, Holly, we enjoy this view...
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Week 40: Wild Geese
Every Autumn I hear the musical honking of the wild geese, as they pass through Virginia on their way south for the winter. The sound always stirs something in me, like the changing golden light of...
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Week 42: Out-of-Town Visitors
We recently had some out-of-town visitors in the neighborhood. They mostly kept to themselves, but the over-turned garbage cans and toppled bird feeders betrayed their presence. I personally have not...
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Week 52: Endings and Beginnings
I have reached the end of this journey, and my 52nd collage is complete. For this final work in the series, I decided to pull together some of my favorite imagery from throughout the year, and create...
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