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Photo Challenge: Resilient

This out-flat prairie, sun burned and wind-scraped, spends winter draped in the dull range of color called earth tones; upscale...
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Photo Challenge: Path

when it all looks obscure she leads not lost not found but traveling beyond the map so follow close your...
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Photo Challenge: Anticipation

Long shadows at noon, cramped days slip to bitter nights this dark solstice. Waiting for new light a minute at a time....
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Photo Challenge: New Horizon

inconvenience be damned the next improbable howl of resilience is just beyond the word yes so just yes ... Anna...
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Photo Challenge: Relax

Memoir Babies not embraced turn into sullen kids not good enough, graduating to insecure young adults, lost in bad decisions...
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Photo Challenge: It’s Not This Time of Year Without…

  bucking tradition: when seasonal words don't fit when obligation overwhelms desire when some mourn or have none or do not when the...
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Photo Challenge: Tiny

Feel that tiny instant just after the thrust, the silence of soaring with hooves thundering down below. The push of...
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Photo Challenge: Chaos

There's a kind of grace in the slippery unbalance of chaos when I remember it's only the rear entrance of...
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Photo Challenge: Transmogrify

Time and shadow blurred our edges until we became each other in a shared breath never fully exhaled. Anna Blake...
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Photo Challenge: Local

As vast as mountains silhouetted and layered angled across the horizon. As close as whispers of breath, nostril to flank,...
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Photo Challenge: H2O

A thread flows affirming life with a humble reminder we’re only nests made of frail twigs, stray hairs, a cooled...
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Photo Challenge: Nostalgia

In a dark rosy blur of nostalgia, free of time and fear, images rise to tell the story of who we became, just a half-step...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Quest

Go the distance. Do it with grace or do it ugly, because some days that's what your best looks like. It...
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Weekly Photo Challenge:

Nothing. There isn't one this week. When a cloud has a thought cloud and even then, nothing to say. ......
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Edge

It's that time of day/ year/ life. Balanced close enough to the edge that gravity goes pastel light and the...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Mirror

There's a mirror flashing a signal, a code that lights my pond blue: I'll watch now. You rest. ... Anna...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame

Wear black and drink the gallery wine. Formulate an intellectual opinion. Consider your emotions. Or Show so much tooth your...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare

Such hopeful ease, confidence in the face of contrary possibility, is rare for man.   Anna Blake at Infinity Farm...
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