North Dakota Skies

We had beautiful clouds most of the day, today, and I got out several times to take photographs. I've made a short Flash slideshow using some of the unedited photos, which you can find here. A larger picture of my favorite can be found on my JPGMag.com page.

I also took a photo, late in the evening, of some of my last tulips: Evening Shadows.

Enjoy!

Flower Photos

At JPGMag.com (link above), I have been putting lots of close-up shots, lately, of spring flowers in the garden beds around my house. They seem to be coming in waves. First are lilies and some early tulips that catch the morning sun on the northeast side of the house. Then we get white violets there and blue violets in the front. Next come fancy tulips at the front of the house, and now the ones in the flowerbeds along the garage (southwest) are starting to bud. 

I have half of the windows cleaned along the west-southwest side of the gazebo. Today the winds are over 20 mph, and so I only have windows open on the lee side. Feels good!

Spring Flooding 2009

There is a new entry at my The Moments Between Blog, The Art of the Moment: Spring Flooding

Frost Series

I have been doing a series of Frost Patterns photographs that I rather like. They can be found on JPG Magazine and my Quiet Spaces Blog.

Quiet Spaces Blog and Facebook

I have been posting winter photographs on my blog at Quiet Spaces. Also, my brother Tim instigated a movement in my family to Facebook accounts; it's nice to hear about people I don't see from one year to the next.

Apex Book Company's Blog

Just a reminder that Apex Magazine (which has published several of my sister Christine W. Murphy's short stories in print issues) is now on-line at http://www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/

You can find their blog at http://www.apexbookcompany.com/blog/

Enjoy!

Photo a Day

Given that JPG Magazine is changing hands (and,or disappearing), I set up a Photography Blog at my QuietSpaces.net domain at powweb.com: http://quietspaces.net/blog/

In other news, I sold a poem to Star*Line that should be appearing in their July/August issue.