October 31, 2011

October 31, 2011
Self – Portrait: Travelocity Roaming Gnome
National Harbor, MD

“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror”
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October 30, 2011

October 30, 2011
Self – Portrait: Travelocity Roaming Gnome
Georgetown Waterfront overlooking the Potomac River, view of Rosslyn (VA) skyline

“Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.”
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October 29, 2011

October 29, 2011
Self – Portrait: My World
Lucketts Antique

“The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.”
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October 28, 2011

October 28, 2011
Self – Portrait: Millwheel
Travelocity Roaming Gnome at the Aldie Mill

"The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so."
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October 27, 2011

October 27, 2011
Self – Portrait: Backwards
In b/w the National Gallery of Art East & West Buildings

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
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October 26, 2011

October 26, 2011
Self – Portrait: Parlez-vous Francais?
Salon Dore at the Corcoran Gallery of Art

"Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home."
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October 25, 2011

October 25, 2011
Self – Portrait: Overlook (Potomac River)
George Washington Memorial Parkway

“It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”
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October 24, 2011

October 24, 2011
Self – Portrait: Rainbow
Great Falls of the Potomac River
Travelocity Roaming Gnome

“Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.”
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October 23, 2011

October 23, 2011
Self – Portrait: Travelocity Roaming Gnome
National Harbor sunset

“We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.”
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October 22, 2011

October 22, 2011
Self – Portrait: Unplanned
In front of Mosby’s Tavern, Middleburg, VA

With true friends… even water drunk together is sweet enough! ~Chinese Proverb
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October 21, 2011

October 21, 2011
Self – Portrait: Helmet Head
Hemlock Overlook – Zip Lining

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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October 20, 2011

October 20, 2011
Self – Portrait: Watching airplanes flying into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
Gravelly Point boat ramp

“The time I've lost in wooing, In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.”
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October 19, 2011

October 19, 2011
Self – Portrait: View of the Pride of Baltimore II ship docked
Gangplank Marina (Washington D.C.)

“The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.”
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October 18, 2011

October 18, 2011
Self – Portrait: Travelocity Roaming Gnome
Gravelly Point Park

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
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October 17, 2011

October 17, 2011
Self – Portrait: Time
Skyline Drive

“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.”
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October 16, 2011

October 16, 2011
Self – Portrait: Two-fold
Lucketts Store Antiques

“True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.”
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October 15, 2011

October 15, 2011
Self – Portrait: Travelocity gnome
Shenandoah National Park

“Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
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October 14, 2011

October 14, 2011
Self – Portrait: Table Reflection
Gallery, Baltimore Inner Harbor

“I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.”
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October 13, 2011

October 13, 2011
Self – Portrait: Silhouettes
30 – second, Shutter Priority mode.
Hirshhorn Museum, James Turrell’s Milk Run exhibit
(Pitch – black room w/ recessed lighting creating an eerie atmosphere).

“There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line.
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
the closer I am to fine.”
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October 12, 2011

October 12, 2011
Self – Portrait: “Landscape in mind”
Exhibit on the grounds of the JFK Center for the Performing Arts

“In uplifting, get underneath.”
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October 11, 2011

October 11, 2011
Self – Portrait: NADA
West Potomac Park

“Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.”
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October 10, 2011

October 10, 2011
Self – Portrait: Reflections
Washington D.C. Metro Area

“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”
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October 9, 2011

October 9, 2011
Self – Portrait: The Awakening
National Harbor, MD

“Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands, which are too small, your vision, which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.”
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October 8, 2011

October 8, 2011
Self – Portrait: Aaahh Nature …
Great Falls National Park

“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.”
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October 7, 2011

October 7, 2011
Self – Portrait: Self-Knowledge
Old Lucketts Store

“To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being, your own hidden being, you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.”
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October 6, 2011

October 6, 2011
Self – Portrait: Perception
Old Lucketts Store – antiques

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
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October 5, 2011

October 5, 2011
Self – Portrait: Philosophical
National Harbor, MD

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."
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October 4, 2011

October 4, 2011
Self – Portrait: Waterfront
West Potomac Park, Rosslyn skyline

“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.”
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October 3, 2011

October 3, 2011
Self – Portrait: Pink jacket
Gravelly Point Park

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
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October 2, 2011

October 2, 2011
Self – Portrait: 5 2 ½ and counting
Burke Lake Park

“Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.”
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October 1, 2011

October 1, 2011
Self – Portrait: Focal Point
If you focus on the starfish, he turns orange. *Wink*

“Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.”
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