by Melinda VanLone | Jan 9, 2013 | Photos, Thoughts |
Santa was very, very nice to me this year. He brought me a new camera! It’s a lot more complicated than my previous camera, and I was immediately struck by how much I needed to learn and how much fun I’d have finding out what it could do. And then I...
by Melinda VanLone | Aug 27, 2012 | Photos, Thoughts |
… might stink to high heaven. For the last year, I’ve been giving birth. Not exactly of the human variety, but it’s felt like it. I’ve written a novel. There, I said it. I am a writer, and I’ve written a novel. The labor was over a...
by Melinda VanLone | Jun 17, 2012 | Photos, Thoughts |
I love taking photos of flowers. They don’t whine when you take multiple shots, they stand still (unless the wind is blowing) and they don’t fret over whether their hair looks good. They are the perfect thing to learn on when you take up photography as a...
by Melinda VanLone | Apr 24, 2012 | Photos, Thoughts |
A bit of magic happened this weekend. I was on a wildflower and winery do-it-yourself tour of the Texas Hill Country, and found myself surrounded by butterflies. Thousands, maybe millions, of them. They coated the roads, the flowers, the air and my imagination....
by Melinda VanLone | Mar 2, 2012 | Photos, Thoughts |
Spring is springing, birds are singing, I am sneezing! Spring is my favorite time of year, even with the stuffy nose. Since I know it’s still snowing in some parts of the country and Spring is probably a distant dream for some of you, I thought I’d share...