After lurking on Flickr for at least a year, never having any photos of my own but favoriting hundreds of them, raising all kinds of suspicions... My family has finally bought me a camera! So I'm having a great time playing, trying to take pictures as beautiful as some I've seen here.

If I favorited one of yours, it's because I think you're an artist and you took a wonderful picture and I want to be able to find it again.

What I really am is a writer, and your work inspires me, and helps me to write better. I promise, I will never post your image to my blog or anyplace else without permission.

Meanwhile, I'd be delighted to have you stop in at Beholding, my photoblog. Or my other blog, Reading, Writing, and What Else is There?

If you'd like to know about my two novels, To Dance in the Desert and The Feast of Saint Bertie, I tell all about them on my website.