Not as good as I wanted. This is a learning project, after all.

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The monthly challenge this time: The 7 Deadly Sins.

My first entry (of 4, actually) is this, Envy. I'll let the picture tell the story.

But I'll also add that, in fact, I neither live in a house like this nor covet one. My tastes run along different lines.

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Me.

On a sewer.

Before the rain.

In a field.

Under clouds.

At dusk.

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The website and/or my e-mail have been down this past week, seemingly at random, so while I can access the site I better catch up on some of my self portraits. Here's Day 199:

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Hey, the website's up again. Only took them three whole days to fix whatever broke there. {sigh} I'll catch up the photos (which have still been ongoing and can, if you wish, be found on my flickr account) tomorrow.

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For those of you counting, I've almost reached 200.

A filter arrived in the mail today. It fits the camera. It just didn't fit the day.

In other news, there is no other news. But stay tuned to this space and be the first to hear when the news breaks.

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You want to know why? Start here.

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First, I was pointed to this, which calls Necropolis "a solid, haunting story that is worth reading", but at the same time decides the cemetery is in New Orleans. For the record: it is not in New Orleans.

There's also this, slightly longer, which calls Necropolis "an extended prose poem masquerading as a horror novella" and calls me "extremely gifted," which makes me smile.

I'm waiting for someone to tell me the whole thing makes no sense and I should surrender my literary license...

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...you must leave your shoes behind.

Today is the last of the Shoes shot for the June challenge. (Yes, I know it's July, but it goes by the Tuesdays of the month. I don't know why.) So I thought it appropriate to leave the shoes behind...

Today is also the Fourth of July, Independence Day in the U.S., the day this country set out on an adventure of its own.

Therefore, I challenge you to take off your shoes and embark upon a new adventure. Shed whatever you must shed, and discover something.

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There are no true seasons in Florida, so we'll never actually see this. It's just green, green, green, and summer, summer, summer, with a week or two of brisk and even cold to prep us for the next Florida summer.

Anyhow, some of those are evergreens.

Yeah, I'm fairly sure I did something wrong somehow... {wicked grin}

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The tree was about 80 feet tall. The roots, outside now, are taller than I am. I couldn't put my arms around the trunk in the foreground.

It's a co-worker's house. The tree destroyed it. About a dozen of us joined her and her family tonight in packing what could be salvaged and moving it into a POD temporarily. At this point, she doesn't know what's going to happen; she's waiting on word from the insurance company.

It was hard work. We had to get things out before the storms came. And storms did come, though not over her home: whilst I was helping here, a tornado (or not a tornado, depending on who you talk to) tore through my neighborhood. I didn't know until I reached all the swirling police lights. It apparently put a tree through someone's home. It did not come far enough down the road to reach me.

I'm tired.

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Free!

Open to the public!

No RSVP required!

No jacket required!

(Shirt and shoes required only for service!)

June's DarkFluidity Live went so well, we're gonna do it again! Bring your friends. Bring your neighbors. Bring a sense of humor and an open mind. Bring a corkscrew.

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See it larger.

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I'm looking at you.

I'm pointing.

I know, it's rude. It must mean something.

So...do you dare? Do you take me up on the challenge? Do you dare take up the challenge without details? Do you trust me?

Should you trust me?

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D - Dreaming of Down Under

Several things I attempted to do here which succeeded. Several things did not. Proof I have much more to learn.

Clockwise from 9pm: Tasmania, Kata Tjuta, the Harbour Bridge, Sydney (and section of Opera House) from ferry, and Uluru.

The original version had each side of the Opera House reflected in one of my eyes. It didn't work, and I removed it entirely.

I will, of course, be pursuing the things I couldn't get to work the way I wanted. Blending, primarily. I'm only 190 days into this project; another 175 to go.

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The creek runs swiftly.

There's mud all around.

You slip beneath the bridge

but still hear the sound

of whatever it is advancing

coming after you.

Get off the travelled path.

There's nothing else to do.

(Okay, as far as poetry goes, it's not particularly good; I don't think it even qualifies as decent. But it rhymes!)

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