October 31 Picture a Day

October 31
Self – Portrait: No injury involved.
Green Ridge State Forest – Allegany County

“Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.”
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October 30 Picture a Day

October 30
Self – Portrait: Life
Feed House in West Union, W.VA
www.tillrowsend.com

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."
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October 29 Picture a Day

October 29
Self – Portrait: Discovery!
Park View Stories Mural Project – Parkview Recreation Center – NW, D.C.
Befriending the lead artist, Helina Metaferia

“One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.”
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October 28 Picture a Day

October 28
Self – Portrait: Timer + Group
Studio Light Class - Portraits

We must be our own before we can be another's.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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October 27 Picture a Day

October 27
A Self – Portrait: Standing around
Words, Beats & Life Inc. Edgewood mural

“Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
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October 26 Picture a Day

October 26
The Watcher
Words, Beat & Life mural

“No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.”
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October 25 Picture a Day

October 25
Self – Portrait: Reflection
Me Casa

“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.”
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October 24 Picture a Day

October 24
Self – Portrait
Robert Latham Owens Park

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. ~Sigmund Freud
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October 23 Picture a Day

October 23
Art Museum of the America’s

“Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motive”
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October 22 Picture a Day

October 22
Through the looking glass

“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”
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October 21 Picture a Day

October 21
Self – Portrait on Self Control
Claude Moore Colonial Farm
McLean, VA

“I have been my own disciple and my own master.
And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.”
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October 20 Picture a Day

October 20
Self – Portrait: Nostalgia
(I still have MY Pooh, Mom!)
Cox Farms, VA

“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne
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October 19 Picture a Day

October 18
Self – Portrait: Do not…
Cox Farms, VA

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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October 18 Picture a Day

October 18
Self – Portrait: Philosophical
Cox Farms, VA

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”
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October 17 Picture a Day

October 17
Self – Portrait: Bittersweet
Skyline Drive – Blue Ridge Mountains

“Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”
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October 16 Picture a Day

October 16
Self – Portrait
Random Edgewood mural – NE, D.C.

“The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.”
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October 15 Picture a Day

October 15
Self – Portrait: Shadow
"From Edgewood to the Edge of the World"

“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”
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October 14 Picture a Day

October 14
Self – Portrait: POSING
GW Masonic National Memorial

“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?”
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October 13 Picture a Day

October 13
Self - Portrait
“Untitled” Meridian Place/Columbia Heights mural

“The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.”
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October 12 Picture a Day

October 12
Self Portrait in Change:
Columbia Heights mural

“God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.”
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October 11 Picture a Day

October 11
Sunflower Power

“The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy”
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October 10 Picture a Day

October 10
Self – Portrait: Mirrors
Eastern Market – Capitol Hill

“Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves”
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October 9 Picture a Day

October 9
Self – Portrait: Hands
Hope Youth Corps – Worldwide Mid-Atlantic mural
Adams Morgan, D.C.

“The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.”
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October 8 Picture a Day

October 8
Self – Portrait: LIFERS
“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
The Global Refugee Mural – Silver Spring, MD

“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.”
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October 7 Picture a Day

October 7
Self – Portrait:
“Stop the Spread, Spread the Word” mural – Penn Ave SE, D.C.

“One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.”
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October 6 Picture a Day

October 6
Self – Portrait: Action
George Washington Masonic Memorial

“The vision must be followed by the venture.
It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.”
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October 5 Picture a Day

October 5
Self – Portrait: Gratitude for art
Words Beats & Life Inc mural –
Shaw District, D.C.

“If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.”
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October 4 Picture a Day

October 4
Self – Portrait

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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October 3 Picture a Day

October 3
Self – Portrait: CROTCH.ROT.USA.
Blair Rd, NW informal Metro mural

“No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”
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October 2 Picture a Day

October 2
Self – Portrait: My Culture, Mi Gente
Columbia Heights, Washington D.C.

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
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October 1 Picture a Day

October 1
COLLAGE – Murals & Graffiti
District of Columbia

“To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.”
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