Category Archives: Journal

Robin Defense, Hunter Hill, April 2013

Posted on May 1, 2013 by commart

In the seven years in which I’ve adjusted to living at Hunter Hill, an apartment complex just beyond the fringe of Hagerstown, Maryland, about six miles south, if that, from the Pennsylvania border, I have raised, by turns, doves, wrens, … Continue reading →

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One Half Pound of Pure Colombian Wow!

Posted on April 15, 2013 by commart

Across all the years I had a ready passport, I used it but once — and bravely drove across the border into Canada. With a another man’s wife. In an old pickup truck, kind of like “Bertha” (my HP B9180 … Continue reading →

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Such A Small World

Posted on April 1, 2013 by commart

Bass player Holly Brandon drives up to Hagerstown from the Washington area now and then to jam with friends I play with around here, and so we’re Facebook buddies. Checkin’ in on FB over coffee this morning, she had referenced … Continue reading →

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Old DVDs

Posted on March 26, 2013 by commart

Every new computer was “the last one!’ 🙂 I hope the rebuilt desktop will be that. Built in 2007 for “straight photography”, it has more capacity today (2.5-TB) and is a little more up to date with its software complement. … Continue reading →

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Fifth Day of Spring, Hunter Hill, March 25, 2013

Posted on March 25, 2013 by commart

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Notes

Posted on March 20, 2013 by commart

You like looking at pictures. I love being out and discovering them. It’s not like me, at least until the present, to make much of routines that end in standard forms, especially those titles: detail, object, city, state, month day, … Continue reading →

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Snapshot, Dusk, Hunter Hill, March 18, 2013

Posted on March 18, 2013 by commart

I had thought this an easy winter — few bitter days, not much snow: pleasant for sorting things. Instead: monstrous. Isolated. Going through certain motions, cycles, moods, adjustments. Waiting out the end of snow season.

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Tuesday Night Music Circle and Guests, Port City Java, Hagerstown, Maryland, Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Posted on March 13, 2013 by commart

It’s all over down at the coffee shop. Mea culpa. I myself have only shown up here and there over the winter to play with Joe Kuhna (pictured below facing the camera) and friends. Last night I hauled down with … Continue reading →

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Portrait of the Artist as an Old Board, Mumma Farm Outbuilding, Antietam National Battlefield Park, Sharpsburg, Maryland, March 10, 2013

Posted on March 11, 2013 by commart

Dean’s take.

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“Being a Daguerreotypist” — Reading, Balcony Garden, Hunter Hill, Hagerstown, July 26, 2007

Posted on March 11, 2013 by commart
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Three Windows, Mumma Farm Outbuilding, Antietam National Battlefield Park, Sharpsburg, Maryland, March 10, 2013

Posted on March 10, 2013 by commart

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I Have Done A Lot With A Little

Posted on March 8, 2013 by commart

And really cool gear, but I really would like to do a lot with a lot. Stay tuned. I do this on Facebook.  I may do it here as well: Shabbat Shalom! Arguing? Fighting? Struggling? If you have a traditional day … Continue reading →

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