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This is the flag of Indonesia, and it is flying on our flagpole today. In my volunteer work for the Southern California Mountains Foundation I spent time at the Big Bear Visitor Center. The thing I enjoyed the most was meeting people from all over the world who had come up to see this section…

Twenty five years ago, when we were living in Littleton Colorado, my Mom gave us a high quality USA Flag. I decided that we should have a good, 25-30 flag pole right outside our front door. So, I installed one. That is how my hobby of flag study began. One day driving home I noticed…

I have never liked posed pictures. I think it started when my Mom nagged me into getting my Senior Picture done. True, in those days the photographer would doctor the shot so much it had a cadaver quality to it. On Instagram I follow a creative photographer, #colintemplephoto , who has a fantastic eye for…

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I see old photos I’ve taken pop up on screensavers and I have thought, that’s a nice shot. I especially like the color, I know I am a sucker for vivid colors. Then I enjoy how the shot played out. I rarely, if ever take a staged shot, so composition becomes the spontaneous ‘action’ of…

Valentines for only 49 years. Taken at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna.

We continue to explore Southern California with the idea that we would feel bad if we left and said, I wish we would have done that, or gone there.  The Los Angels Arboretum is a fantastic venue to see natural habitats from around the world, but mostly Southern California. Last year we saw advertisments for…

We decided to take a trip to see Haley at Dixie State University in St. George Utah.  It is a 6 hour drive from Big Bear.  We let Michael know that it would be a great time to visit family and oh, by the way, we could go to Zion National Park because it was…

The 2018 Gary & Denise Christmas Letter was such a success, we did not want to stop the trending, so here is the 2019 version.  This is our 5th Christmas in Big Bear.  2019 was full of adventures, travel and friends.  With all of the bovine defecation going on in our beloved homeland, I kept…

I read about a free ‘museum’ in LA a couple of years ago. It caught my eye because of its name ‘The Annenberg Space For Photography’. We have taken a diverse set of our friends to this special place. We have observed a number of different shows and have never been disappointed. Our guests have…