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Lens-Artists Challenge #167: Colors of Autumn

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and rust, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies. Sharon Kay Penman This adventure just happened — as many of our adventures do. We were driving home from Lexington, Kentucky, and noted what looked to be a farm selling pumpkins […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rounded

Maine’s got curves and rounds, so we’re sharing a few for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Rounded. A stack of pumpkins at the front door of Newcastle Inn in Newcastle, Maine A bright orange life preserver at Searsport harborA potter rounds the bottom of a vase at Mainely Pottery on Route 1. And who doesn’t love […]

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Different yet familiar: Peninsula Fall Festival, Blue Hill

On our resumes, we just may have to list “festivalgoer” on the space reserved for non-paying occupations. After all, we’ve peeled crustaceans at the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival in Louisiana and sampled pimento cheese biscuits at Knoxville’s International Biscuit Festival with party stops in between. And even it it’s trite to say: we truly have […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Local color at Oakes Farm

It’s our guess that all across America this time of year farmers are busy. (Well, aren’t they always?) It’s just that instead of being consumed by harvest chores and all, they’re leading folks through corn mazes, selling apple cider, and putting kids on tractors “to get their picture took!” At least that’s how it is […]

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Fabulous Fall at Bellagio — It’s Vegas, Baby!

Call me old. Call me silly. Call me small-town girl gaping at the site of big-city Vegas. And you’d be justified. It was my inaugural visit to Sin City, and I was wowed. Not by the casinos, the shows, and the glittering night life, but by the beauty. And at least one unexpected site: the […]