Food: Salad

Barren: I-91

Barren: winter dogwood

Barren: Winter Sun

Barren: Mist on the Reservoir

Warm air + ice = fog.  On our way to church, we couldn't see the reservoir at all; on the way back, plumes of mist were blowing over the ice.

Camera: Canon EOS T3, Lensbaby Comoser

Communication: Video

Not much of an audience for a video on Acadia National Park at the Hartford RV Show.

Camera: iPhone5

Communication: Touch

Touch is a potent form of communication.

Communication: Keyboard

My daughter's fingers fly over the keyboard.

Communication: Newspaper

Newspapers are being replaced by TV and the Internet, but they are an important form of communication about what’s going on in the world around us.

Camera: iPhone5

Communication: Cell Phone

These days communication=cell phone.

Camera: iPhone5

City: Tourists

To me, New York is the greatest city in the world. I loved watching these tourists documenting their experience here.

Camera: iPhone5

City

Some of NYC's iconc skyscrapers.

Camera: iPhone5m Hipstamatic

City

Conversations in the Concourse, Rockefeller Center

Camera: iPhone5, Hipstamatic

City

NYC from 70 stories up.

Camera: iPhone5  Processing: PSE

City

A couple chats at a cafe on Third Avenue in NYC

Camera: iPhone5  Processing: Hipstamatic app

Endings and beginnings

John and I would like to extend to all of you our hope that the new year will bring you blessing and joy, beauty and fulfillment.

On another note, I wish to inform all of the kind people who have followed this blog that I am moving my digital home.  I do this with great reluctance, since I've maintained this blog since January 1, 2008.  Unfortunately, there have been unresolved issues with Blogspot not allowing people to post comments.  Because of this, I've started a new blog: BFCPhotos.wordpress.com. Please come visit me there!  I'll maintain this blog for a transition period; but if all goes well, I will probably end up closing this and moving permanently to Wordpress. 

As my parting shot, literally and figuratively, here is the video from last night's New Years celebration at my friends' home.  Be patient--it took a little while for the cannon to go off.

Parts

Parts of our stir-fry tonight.
Camera: iPhone5 Processing: Etchings

My little secret

OK--here it goes: poinsettias creep me out.  It's those little eye things in the middle.  Maybe it's because they remind me of the evil prong-shooting plants in the original Star Trek series episode, "The Apple," I don't know...but there it is.  Using the Lensbaby with the star disc softens them to a non-threatening almost abstract.

Camera: Canon EOS T3, Lensbaby Muse    Processing: PSE

Peace

I don't know that Peace was a theme; if it was, I've used to already.  But I feel right now, on this Christmas Eve when we have been soaked in tragedy, a desperate need for peace.  So I would like to offer as a Christmas blessing, yet one more vision of Paper Goods Pond, that peaceful place, as it reflects Heaven.  I wish you all a blessed and a peaceful Christmas.

Photo: iPhone5    Processing: PSE

Candy

Granddude Craig tastes his first candy cane.

Camera: iPhone5 Processing: TiltShift Generator, Etchings, PhotoToaster