MG Holiday Party at Liriodendron

Ashland, NH

Kaela's is on the upper left, Grace's is on the lower right.

December Challenge Day 18: Card

Most photos of christmas trees are dishonest at representing the experience of actually looking at the depicted christmas tree in person, and this one is too. The orange and white traffic barrels were there, and a fog was upon the Michigan State Capitol dome, but the christmas tree looked significantly different from this in real life.

It was possibly the showiest extravagance ever displayed in Lansing Michigan!, but this is not what it looked like.

This spectacular monster is a spruce from Alpena County.

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In downtown Lansing, Michigan, on December 14th, 2018, at the intersection of Capitol Avenue and West Michigan Avenue, at the Michigan State Capitol.

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National Express West Midlands 4148 in BBC wrap livery.

7artisans 35mm f1.2

Looking east at FULL COLD MOON from Mount Vernon Place Plaza at North Charles and West Monument Street in Baltimore MD on Saturday evening, 22 December 2018 by Elvert Barnes Photography

IN SEARCH OF THE FULL COLD MOON / WINTER SOLSTICE WALK

Elvert Barnes BALTIMORE MD 2018 docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/Bmore2018

7artisans 35mm f1.2

"If you like to get into the d'n'a you'd better hope I don't send you down to the D'n'A testing center," I tell my employees and I enjoy their worried looks.

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In downtown Flint, Michigan, on December 9th, 2018, a building on the north side of West Court Street (Michigan Highway M-21) between South Saginaw Street and Buckham Alley.

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Artwork for THE NEW HORIZONS Uplifting Trance Mix

Trance Head End of Year / Winter Solstice Series

EXB Mix 2018.21

Length: 2:21:45

Mount Vernon, Baltimore MD

Released: 21 December 2018

MIXCLOUD at www.mixcloud.com/ElvertBarnes/the-new-horizons-uplifting-...

Track list at docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSPPUMTRn8hWW2eG2TcfT...

Elvert Barnes MIXOLOGY

elvertbarnes.com/Mixology

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Photo Credit:

Thomas Cizauskas, Atlanta GA, 3 December 2017

Super Cold Moon rises (03)

A hazy and mostly cloudy sky interfered with viewing the Cold Moon Super Moon, as it rose, after sunset, over ... Atlanta, Georgia.

3 December 2017

Original photo at www.flickr.com/photos/cizauskas/27052699629/

At Rogue Space in Chelsea.

At Rogue Space in Chelsea.

At Rogue Space in Chelsea.

This is for slump-shouldered cigarette smokers.

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In downtown Flint, Michigan, on December 9th, 2018, outside the AT&T Building on the east side of Beach Street, south of West 1st Street.

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MG Holiday Party at Liriodendron

December Challenge Day 23: Together

OK, I know what you are thinking. Me and a harmonica represents together? Let me explain.

My mom, wise soul that she is, knew I was struggling in college, struggling how to bleed off stress. In grade school or high school, she could tell when I was destressing by how I played the piano. I wasn't aware that I would change how I played but she could tell. My piano didn't fit well in my dorm room (go figure), so I lost that stress relief. At Christmas of my sophomore year, she got me a harmonica. For much of the eight years that followed, my harmonica and I were together constantly. I didn't stop carrying it around until Ginger came into my life. It wasn't a conscious decision on my part. Only later did I realize that I didn't need to feel its constant presence in my pocket, to have the ability to take the harmonica out when I needed it. I still own three harmonicas and I do play them from time to time.