In many ways, artists and writers are never off the clock, Maria and I understand one another. Our blogs are living, organic things. I see my blog as my living memoir, a new kind of daily book, a new kind of journal. Maria’s blog is different, more focused on her life and art. But the creative spark is never far from her consciousness and when we go out to do the morning chores, each one of us pulls out a camera or an Iphone and starts capturing the images of the day.

If we were different people, or if we didn’t both do it, it might drive one or the other of us mad, but as it happens, we both understand and respect the impulse. Yesterday, when the light was so beautiful, Deb came over to Maria and she pulled out her Iphone and had a quiet and intimate photo shoot with one of the sheep. I was off to the right taking pictures of Red and Fate herding the sheep.

But I have learned to be quick with my camera out there, and I captured an image I like.

Good blogs are hungry creatures, they need to be fed regularly.  Don’t get one if you don’t want to take care of it. We live in just the right place to do it. There is always – always an image worth sharing out there in the morning. I have never left the pasture without one.