December 31 Picture a Day

December 31
Self – Portrait: Sunset chasers
Off the Arthur E. Ravenel Bridge
Charleston (Harbor), S.C.
Ending 20-10 with a beautiful sunset & a beautiful friendship.
Happy New Year 20-11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
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December 30 Picture a Day

December 30
Self – Portrait: Anchoring down 20-10
Patriots Point, Mt Pleasant, S.C.

“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.”
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December 29 Picture a Day

December 29
Self – Portrait: Waiting…
National Harbor, MD
(I know, I go here a lot – has the best sunsets)

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite.
Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance.
Everyone is just waiting.
~Dr. Seuss
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December 28 Picture a Day

December 28
Self – Portrait: Icy sunset
National Harbor, MD – Potomac River

“All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
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December 27 Picture a Day

December 27
Self – Portrait of a Nut (cracker)
Old Ebbitt Grill, D.C.

"Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few:
Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you."
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December 26 Picture a Day

December 26
Self – Portrait: 27 degrees for a bear hug?
The falling snow made me look like a bunny… Hmm…

I will not play at tug o' war
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs....
~Shel Silverstein
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December 25 Picture a Day

December 25
Self – Portrait: Peace on Christmas Day
President’s Park
I originally was going to have the White House Christmas Tree as my *POD* until I met “Start.Loving” – part of “24 Hrs a Day Anti-Nuclear.Peace.Vigil”, since 1981.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc_LPyKXNNY
They were here when I moved away from D.C. and still here when I moved back.
I listened to ‘Start Loving’ & heard his passion for ‘peace’ – it’s a quite a twist from the norm of a Christmas Day… Listen & learn.
Since 1981. That’s passion.
Merry Christmas & Peace on Earth. Thank you “Start Loving”.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ~Henry David Thoreau
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December 24 Picture a Day

December 24
Self – Portrait: So it’s Christmas Eve…
National Harbor, MD

“Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.”
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December 23 Picture a Day

December 23
Self – Portrait: Yoga on the brain
Potomac River - West Potomac Park

“Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.”
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December 22 Picture a Day

December 22
Self – Portrait: My Chucks & Me
Columbia Island, D.C.

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.”
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December 21 Picture a Day

December 21
Self – Portrait on the 1st Day of Winter
View of the frozen Potomac River

"Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts."
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December 20 Picture a Day

December 20
‘Tis the Season…
Downtown Holiday Market, Chinatown

“Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...”
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December 19 Picture a Day

December 19
A Self – Portrait of Happiness
West Potomac Park

“A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.”
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December 18 Picture a Day

December 18
A Self – Portrait: Patriot II
National Harbor, MD

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
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December 17 Picture a Day

December 17
A Self – Portrait: Snow pose
National Capitol Columns

“Whenever I feel like exercise, I sit down until the feeling passes.”
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December 16 Picture a Day

December 16
A Self – Portrait: 1st Snow in D.C.
Lincoln Memorial

“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
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December 15 Picture a Day

December 15
Welcome to the World of Columbia Heights!

“The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep”
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December 14 Picture a Day

December 14
Self – Portrait: Woman Eating 1971
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Donald E. Reynolds Center for Art & Portraiture

“One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.”
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December 13 Picture a Day

December 13
Self – Portrait: Photo opp
Georgetown Waterfront

“Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.”
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December 12 Picture a Day

December 12
Self – Portrait:
Gaylord National Resort Christmas Tree

“The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!”
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December 11 Picture a Day

December 11
Self – Portrait: Girl Interrupted
Constitution Avenue, NW, D.C. – Monument(al)

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
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December 10 Picture a Day

December 10
Self – Portrait: Ghost
Arlington Memorial Bridge

“Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.”
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December 9 Picture a Day

December 9
View of I-395 from L’Enfant Plaza
Washington D.C. – typical downtown rush

“It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.”
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December 8 Picture a Day

December 8
Taken off the Rosslyn Key Bridge
Long exposure captures…

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
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December 7 Picture a Day

December 7
Self – Portrait: Optimist
U.S. Capitol – Tree Lighting ceremony

“Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.”
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December 6 Picture a Day

December 6
Self – Portrait + 2 seconds, 10 shots + 25 years = FRIENDSHIP
Bodega, Georgetown

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
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December 5 Picture a Day

December 5
A Self – Portrait in Emotion
National Harbor, MD

“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.”
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December 4 Picture a Day

December 4
A Self – Portrait: No Trespass?
Historic Ellicott City, MD

“My karma ran over your dogma.”
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December 3 Picture a Day

December 3
A Self – Portrait in the cold
National Harbor, MD

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
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December 2 Picture a Day

December 2
Self – Portrait: Discovery
Randall Recreation Center – S.W., D.C.

“My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.”
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December 1 Picture a Day

December 1
Self – Portrait: Big Head
National Gallery of Art – East

“Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown”
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