:::NOW CLOSED::: GIVEAWAY — Let ‘er buck!

Thanks to you all for your WONDERFUL contributions to this giveaway.  I’ll be pulling reading recommendations from this comment section for months to come, you should too.  I wish I could have offered 217 of these horse prints to give away but the one print I have to give has been won by Barb Stellmach — original comment #42.

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Thanks to you all for being here, as always.

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IMG_5492elk goodIMG_3756IMG_3775 IMG_3782 IMG_3752I thought you kiddos could use a little pick-me-up this week so I’m doing a giveaway here.  I shot one of my favorite photographs of 2013 while I was out pheasant hunting with Robert in autumn.  It’s a shot of five horses loping away from where I was standing with my camera in a ditch on an Idaho backroad that took us to somewhere beautiful; the buckskin in the middle of the frame is frozen, mid-buck.  Sweet!   It’s not a technically perfect photograph, in fact, it’s a bit front focused for my liking, but I like it for the feel of it, for the freedom of it, for the symbolism, for the memory of that day when I was out with my man and our dogs, fall was fading into winter, the wind was bitter cold and we were having a delightful time gunning for dinner.

I loved that day.

I love this picture.

I’ve had it printed up on the highest quality metallic Kodak paper and mounted on a gorgeous wooden block — it has a lovely shimmer to it that you are going to seriously appreciate.  Minimal.  Classy.  Dare I say…modern?  It’s lovely and it is TINY.  It looks great on its own and wonderful if you have a cluster wall somewhere in your home.  This print measures about 2.5×3.5 inches and comes equipped to hang (there’s a hole on the flip side that makes things real easy).

As always, I do giveaways because I appreciate you being here.  There’s no need to tweet, pin, FB, insta or WHATEVER you crazy social networkers get up to on a regular basis!  All you need to do to enter is leave a comment on the end of this blog post with your email address.  Say whatever you want.  Come to think of it, I need some new reading material, give me a title or two if you can think of one.  If you win, I’ll hunt you down (in an un-creepy way).  Also, I should mention that this giveaway is mainly for this wee horse print but I always send out a bevy of goodies in my winner packages so prepare for some of my homemade organic Methow Valley peach lavender jam,  maybe some earrings and some other goodies, to boot.  If you fear entering this giveaway may be a waste of your precious time because you live in Zimbabwe, fear not, I will be glad to ship this magnificent prize anywhere in the world.

I’ll leave this post open for a few days before I draw a name.

Toodaloo!

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Dark and Rich

IMG_1701elk good IMG_1855elk good IMG_1863elk goodThree dark ones, rich with slivers of robust color and a dash of mysterious warmth…

Rounding Up The Strays

Twenty four stray images from the past month that never made it to the blog!  Proof of the hard work I’ve been doing with my camera.  I love each and every one for a host of reasons.  Which do you love most?

Well, it’s really over, my friends, summer, fire, lonesomeness, frustration, elation, the north cascades, our stint in the Methow Valley…it’s come and gone.  It’s always bittersweet.  I love it here.  I miss Idaho.  My heart is continually ping-ponging between all the places I have ever loved.  And in between all the bouncing and boinging, I continually pine for Saskatchewan.  I know too many homes.  It’s torture.  It’s bliss.

 I have a thousand things to tell you about our raft, about rivers and boats as modes as transportation, but I am hanging onto (hoarding) those details for a personal essay I have been crafting, word by word.  It will be worth the wait.  I promise.

We watched Out of Africa the other night, one of my all time favorite movies, it’s beautiful, wild and Meryl Streep is just…so…exquisite.  I want to be half the woman she is in that movie.  Half the woman.  I want to face a hungry lion with nothing but my pyjamas and a bull whip to keep me safe.  Gosh.  How about this:

It’s an odd feeling, farewell…there is some envy in it.  Men go off to be tested for courage and if we’re tested at all, it’s for patience, or doing without, or for how well we can endure loneliness.

Doggone it.  That movie is so beautiful.

We’ll be rolling by Wednesday, headed for wild Idaho.  The Noisy Plume will be mostly shut down until the end of October due to adventuring and some big project deadlines I need to meet head on — which I cannot wait to tell you about, when the time comes.  I’ll be capturing life, as best as I can, between now and then.  Thank you all for being here, these past six months.  For your kind comments, for your support, for your presence in my Etsy shop, for your letters in my mailbox and your sweet emails.  Sometimes I falter.  Don’t we all?  It seems like you are always there to catch me with your thousands of hands and gentle hearts.  I appreciate you more than I could ever say.

See you on the other side of this transition, dear hearts.

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The color around here is so staunch and burly lately…one of the blessings of winter is when robust chroma presses up against white.

I have so many things to tell you, so many things to say, but the words come on as ghosts, fragments, intangible wisps.  I am patient.

Look, my geranium is blooming!

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Quiet

Today: Just a handful of beautiful, quiet images, to buoy your sweet souls on this fine Monday.  I meant to find a moment to write, but I’m already out of time today!  More tomorrow.  Unless there’s fresh snow…