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I did not feel the earth move

April 18, 2008 by Lanora

Not this time.

I lived through my very first earthquake in 1987 or thereabouts. I was working late in my Rockford, Illinois, cubicle, alone in the office with my editing assignments. I felt my chair move suddenly and swung around to confront some prankster who had dared sneak up behind me.

That’s when I realized I had experienced a rare thrill for a girl who had not yet traveled farther west than Denver. Until then, the earthquake concept was entirely abstract to me, even if my house in Des Plaines did shake from time to time, in fact quite frequently. Each time a freight train passed on the tracks along Mannheim Road or a jet took off from nearby O’Hare, windows vibrated and the glassware in my cabinets tinkled merrily.

Now that my daughter lives in southern California, I visit the West Coast a lot. I guess I’m used to the shaking and rattling from mundane little temblors.

So this morning I slept right through the earthquake, until it was all over but the shouting. My husband’s shouting, that is, yelling "What the hell was that?"

I turned over and went back to sleep.

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Filed Under: Current Affairs, Travel Tagged With: earthquake, Illinois, midwest

Yellow tecolote ranunculus or Persian buttercup

April 17, 2008 by Lanora

Yellow ranunculus or Persian buttercup

Now blooming in Carlsbad, California . . . and on my midwestern front porch.

Wishing in vain you could visit the Carlsbad flower fields?

Do as I did, and pick up a pot or two of these beautiful ranunculus for your entryway.

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Filed Under: Flowers, Photography Tagged With: buttercup, California, Carlsbad, flower, flower fields, persian, ranunculus, spring, tecolote, yellow

Loving attention

April 12, 2008 by Lanora

In the present moment

This outdoor shot was set up by John Metcalfe at this past week’s PPA Super Monday workshop at Indigo Photographic here in Batavia IL. Any technical mistakes are all my own.

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Filed Under: Photography, Portraits Tagged With: African-American couple, batavia il, closeness, couple, embrace, existing light photography, john metcalfe, love, loving attention, natural lighting, photo lighting, photographer, photographs, portraiture, ppa

Eight ball

April 9, 2008 by Lanora

Eight ball

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Filed Under: Photography, Portraits Tagged With: brown eyes, eight ball, green, man, moustache, outdoors, pool player, portrait, tattoo, yellow

Time-worn cherub, Pisac church door, Peru

April 5, 2008 by Lanora

Cherub, Pisac Church door, Peru

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Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Photography, Travel Tagged With: blue, brass, cherub, church door, peru, Pisac, Pisac Peru

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