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What I see when I look over my shoulder.

June 19, 2013  •  Leave a Comment
My father became a more brilliant story-teller as he got older and his memory made gaps which he was free to fill in as he wished. I hated it. I wanted facts, true history, documentary evidence. I'm older now. The past is a place half recognizable, half not. "A foreign country," novelist L.P. Hartley called it. To me, it seems like a fairy tale. Dr...
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Summer Kitchen is a Book

June 12, 2013  •  Leave a Comment
My photo series, Summer Kitchen, is now a book with a (slightly) expanded text and some additional photos. It is also available as an i-pad edition. Scroll very far down and see most of it here. Or even purchase a copy!
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Why Green?

May 11, 2013  •  Leave a Comment
The wall to the garage that faces the garden is gray. Gray all over, blue-gray, except for a white patch left from some repair work. You can't see that patch here. Coming out, a sunny day, oh my. The whole wall has turned a new color. A green I would have loved to invent but didn't have to. Research reveals Richard's bicycle jacket, fluorescent y...
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Just published: In Xanadu: A Little Book of Poppies

December 16, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
In Xanadu by Ariel Swartley | Make Your Own Book An e-book version for the i-pad is also available. (Attractively priced, though a different typeface--such is the way of e-publishing.) It can be viewed here: http://store.blurb.com/ebooks/361108-in-xanadu
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You Had to Be There

February 29, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
It was an extraordinarily lovely shot. They'd nearly frozen, the photographer said, getting up to shoot the lake that early. Oh, he said as an afterthought, "I added the clouds." They were extraordinarily lovely, too--high, thin streaky. But my heart fell. Something I thought the picture was telling me--about wind and weather and water at one mome...
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