young buck

i see deer almost everyday while walking the dog in rock creek park...but not this close! we startled this young buck, but once we made eye contact, he just stood there chewing on stuff while i took multiple shots.

new wall art work

i have really put off producing art work for the virginia house: it's sooo white...and clean...no chatkes=no dusting. but, after doing a photo session to submit to the apartment therapy "small..cool" competition earlier this year, i realized this place looked boring, visually boring. so, i am fast-forwarding project artwork: i have taken over 1,000 photos and collected lots of found stuff since i discovered the northern neck, yet nothing has appeared on any of my walls. time to get busy. i finally mounted and hung a naturally shed baby-deer horn i found in a field while walking the dog next to a box turtle's shell: not sure what happened here or who ate it...the turtle and i had met before, and then one day, the shell showed up alone...in plain view...bone white...dead, yet fantastic...so, we start with the art:(