The First Response: October Leaves — Jessica October means leaves. Beautiful red, orange and yellow leaves that light up like fire in the afternoon sun. October also means raking and removing those leaves from the lawn.

Second Call: October Leaves — Cheryl Autumn Attire It’s October: Keep your ghouls, ghosts and goblins; They don’t frighten me. Save your black, And just let me be. It’s October: That Halloween foolishness Is a distraction. Can’t you see The real attraction? It’s October: The best costumes are not seen Outside your front door. Just […]

First Call: Ghostly Graveyard — Cheryl Poem in October It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbor wood And the mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore The morning beckon With water praying and call of seagull and rook And the knock of sailing boats on the net […]

Second Response: Beauty and Power — Cheryl In every age the Church has called upon the arts to give expression to the beauty of her faith and to proclaim the Gospel message of the grandeur of God’s creation, the dignity of human beings made in his image and likeness, and the power of Christ’s death […]

First Response: Beauty at the End of Earthly Life — Cheryl In every age the Church has called upon the arts to give expression to the beauty of her faith and to proclaim the Gospel message of the grandeur of God’s creation, the dignity of human beings made in his image and likeness, and the […]

The Call: Sure Steps — Jessica In every age the Church has called upon the arts to give expression to the beauty of her faith and to proclaim the Gospel message of the grandeur of God’s creation, the dignity of human beings made in his image and likeness, and the power of Christ’s death and […]

Third Call: Colors of the Sun I love capturing color in lens flare.

The Third Response: Muted Morning — Jessica I do like my color warm as I said last post. But I also love it muted: muddy earth tones and washed-out pale pastels. Now is my favorite season of the year.

The Second Response: Patient — Jessica In theory I like to shoot at the blue hour. It makes for some really captivating photos since the ambient light is so cool that it contrasts so beautifully with the various artifical lights. And it’s moody. I say, in theory, because I’m actually pretty busy at that time […]

Warm vs. Cool Thoughts — Cheryl People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and its ends, but to me it’s quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spat blues. […]

The First Response: Airplane Overhead — Jessica Color is a great call. Even though I’m in a black and white mood currently (because of the other things that I’m trying to concentrate on), I know that color is something that I should study. Everything boils down to line, form and color, right? I feel like […]

First Call: Colorful Sartorialist — Cheryl Today I was led to a blog with a one-word, five-minute writing prompt published each Friday. It may be just what I need, and I think I’ll give it a go. Before diving in this coming Friday, I’ll practice a bit, on my own. Right here. Right now. I’m […]

First Response: A Can of the Real Thing and a Bottle of Red — Cheryl Friendships don’t have to be scripted or prescribed. They need not be micromanaged, arranged or engineered. Tastes may differ, ages can range widely and beliefs can be unshared. Friendships can be simple or complex, straightforward or nuanced. But they should […]

The Third Call: Little Boy Games/ Big Boy Games — Jessica What is it that Pooh says? Start at the beginning and go on until the end? Or something like that… So let’s start at the beginning. What is a metaphor? I spent a lot of time yesterday reading and browsing around, trying to come […]