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It’s the 15th day of July

Gary BoydJuly 15, 2022
It's Photo Friday This week's Challenge: 'Road'. Talimena National Scenic Byway, June 2010 It was June of 2010 and I had scored some semi-decent tickets to an Eagles concert with the Dixie Chicks opening for them as an early anniversary gift for Sherry... The downside of this was the concert…
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It’s the eighth day of July

Gary BoydJuly 8, 2022
It's Friday It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.-Claude Monet I haven't done a Photo Friday Challenge in years. This weeks Challenge is "Seashore". So I've dug into my archives for…
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Photo Friday: ‘Circular’

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Gary BoydApril 17, 2009April 17, 2017
Mill Wheel, Roan Mountain State Park, Tennessee
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Coffee Muses for Black Friday

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Gary BoydNovember 28, 2008January 3, 20172
Though coffee drinkers may be cutting back on the expensive drinks, they still are consuming as much as they did last year — an average 3.3 cups a day per person, according to a June study by the National Coffee Association of U.S.A. The study of the $39.5 billion industry…
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Photo Friday – Autumn

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Gary BoydNovember 14, 2008January 3, 20171
I have been out of the Photo Friday habit lately...It's time to jump back in... From Coffee Muses From the past weekend. On Saturday we drove south out of Fredericksburg along Highway 16. This has always been one of my favorite drives in Texas. Along the way we stopped at…
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Photo Friday: Electricity

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Gary BoydApril 25, 2008
This week's Challenge: 'Electricity'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not your website's main page. Read this for more info. Reminder: Submit only one link per challenge! When you…
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Photo Friday – “Misty”

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Gary BoydFebruary 1, 2008January 3, 2017
Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge Brazoria County, Texas Dec 2006 This week's challenge: 'Misty'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not your website's main page. Read this for more info.…
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Photo Friday – Mountain

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Gary BoydJanuary 11, 2008January 3, 2017
Shot outside of Las Vegas, Nevada as I killed time before flying home after a couple of weeks on a job. This week's challenge: 'Mountain'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge…
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Photo Friday: Passage of Time

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Gary BoydJanuary 4, 20082
Old Farmhouse, Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia, November 12, 2007   Passage of Time - Fri Jan 04, 2008 This week's challenge: 'Passage of Time'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image,…
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Ending the year in style…

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Gary BoydDecember 21, 2007January 3, 20171
Here it is early afternoon on Friday before Christmas. I should be out shopping for a few last minute gifts for my wife...Instead I'm sitting here in the kitchen with the double French Doors wide open, sun streaming in, listening to the wind chimes out back and the crows in…
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The difference in 24 hours…

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Gary BoydDecember 18, 20071
Yesterday morning at this time the temperature outside my door was 36°...Today it's 61. When the sun rose yesterday the ground was white with the second frost of the year. I'll be surprised if we see the sun this morning. I see this toasty weather outside my door isn't being…
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Photo Friday – Sunrise

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Gary BoydDecember 14, 20071
This week's challenge: 'Sunrise'. Sunrise from Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway Sunrise Sunrise Looks like morning in your eyes But the clock's held 9:15 for hours Sunrise Sunrise Couldn't tempt us if it tried Cuz the afternoon's already come and gone And I said Hooo, hooo, hooo To…
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Photo Friday – Travel

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Gary BoydNovember 16, 20071
This week's challenge: 'Travel'. Eight States, ten Days, 1750 miles, five hotel rooms, from heat to freezing to fall comfortable to snow to fall comfortable. That's Travel...And here's my Vacation Slideshow for proof... . Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to…
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Oops, missed a day…

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Gary BoydNovember 2, 2007January 3, 20172
The mapping software I ordered from DeLorme arrived late on Wednesday night so Thursday morning was spent installing booth programs and checking the GPS receiver during my regular blogging time. I must say that what little time I've had to play with the software and the GPS sure has me…
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Photo Friday: Silence

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Gary BoydOctober 26, 2007January 3, 20171
Where once there was laughter...Silence This week's challenge: 'Silence'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not your website's main page. Read this for more info. Reminder: Submit only one…
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It’s Friday so let’s play “Photo Friday”

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Gary BoydOctober 19, 2007January 3, 2017
This week's challenge: 'The City'. Houston on a beautiful winter day in February of this year. Taken while attending a National Geographic Photography Session at the U of H Downtown Campus. This week's challenge: 'The City'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must…
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Photo Friday – “Comfort”

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Gary BoydSeptember 28, 2007January 3, 2017
From Coffee Muses Babe in his mother's arms...That's comfort. This week's challenge: 'Comfort'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not your website's main page. Read this for more info.…
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Photo Friday – The Beach

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Gary BoydSeptember 21, 2007
Galveston, Texas as the sun comes up over the Gulf of Mexico on a fall Sunday morning... This week's challenge: 'The Beach'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not…
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Photo Friday: Fantasy

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Gary BoydSeptember 14, 2007
The fantasy of a fishing camp on a week day while working away at the office.....You don't even need a hook and bait. This week's challenge: 'Fantasy'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show…
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Photo Friday – “Purple”

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Gary BoydSeptember 7, 2007
The sky on an autumn morn as the sun comes over the horizon... This week's challenge: 'Purple'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not your website's main page. Read…
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Photo Friday – “Unfinished”

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Gary BoydAugust 24, 2007
Unfinished Grandson... This week's challenge: 'Unfinished'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not your website's main page. Read this for more info. Reminder: Submit only one link per challenge!…
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Photo Friday – Old

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Gary BoydAugust 17, 2007
Old Friends And old photo's of Old Friends... We still get together once and a while, me and my old friend from the 6th grade...It is over 40 years ago that I developed my first school boy crush on this old friend. She went on to be the steady of…
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Photo Friday – Oddity

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Gary BoydAugust 10, 20071
While most of the country encounters a Christmas Snow with a fair amount of regularity, this is the only known Christmas Day Snow in Brazoria County, Texas. I would think that would rate it as an "oddity". On Christmas Eve 2004 the snow began to fall at about 10pm. It…
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Photo Friday – Wet

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Gary BoydAugust 3, 2007
This is what my front yard has looked like on way too many days this summer. This week's challenge: 'Wet'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not your website's…
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Photo Friday – “Vacation”

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Gary BoydJuly 20, 2007January 3, 2017
From Coffee Muses This week's challenge: 'Vacation'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not your website's main page. Read this for more info. Reminder: Submit only one link per…
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Photo Friday

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Gary BoydJuly 13, 2007January 3, 2017
This week's challenge: 'Barren' Taken in January 2005 on my last trip to Vegas... PHOTO FRIDAY Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not your website's main page. Read this…
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Photo Friday – Gray

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Gary BoydJune 29, 2007January 3, 20172
Gray Day on Galveston Bay
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Photo Friday – Dream

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Gary BoydJune 22, 20071
What it is I dream of...
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