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Come Wander Along with Me...

I wander...it is simply what I do.  Since I was a young girl, my parent's tried everything to keep me close to home, going to such  measures as to buy me goats.  Though I loved my goats, my heart still  wandered.  

Growing up in rural New Jersey, I was surrounded by dense woods and long stretches of farm land to fuel my imagination.   I felt at home in the arms of the forest and spent many days laying upon the fragrant mossy soil staring up through the filter of leaves... watching the light dance.  It is these experiences that I work to remember.

In adulthood, I discovered the joy of capturing those precious moments, through my camera's lens.  Though the many years in between my youth and the present, I have enjoyed many wonderful adventures and am currently wandering in another people's land.  For the past 10 years I have had the pleasure of living in Europe and learning to look at life in a very different way.   

Through my images and my wanderings, I hope you will enjoy seeing the world around you... in a new way.

So...I invite you to "Come Wander Along with Me..."

Hey…It’s OK to Fake it!

Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 10:23am Posted in Around my Village, Germany, iPhoneography, Living in Europe, Local Color, The Netherlands, Travel

Last year at this time I was wandering the amazing blooming flower fields of Holland.  This year, unable to attend the fan fare that hails the arrival of these blooming “onions” I am forced to pretend in my local U-pick tulip patch.

OK so it may only be three small rows but they certainly are beautiful, and with the power of the imagination I can almost hear all the bicycles passing me by and smell the heady aroma of the hyacinths blooming in the endless Dutch fields.

Here, in my private village patch,  I don’t have to fight the bus loads of tourist vying for the perfect tulip shot.  I have the entire patch for an hour, completely to myself.  No one will look twice if I wish to lay on my belly in the middle of the patch to take a photo.

45 euro cents a piece….priceless for this little piece of paradise.

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by lthek

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April 22, 2010 - 18:03 catharine - I loved this slide show! Who needs Holland when you have this on your doorstep!

April 22, 2010 - 23:45 Ryukyu Mike - Love this, make it a regular series! Cheers, Mike

April 23, 2010 - 01:44 catharine - Love this! A real springtime treat!

April 23, 2010 - 01:47 catharine - Love it! A springtime treat!

April 23, 2010 - 02:03 Herman Vandecauter - This is realy very nice! "Breathtaking"

April 23, 2010 - 02:04 Herman Vandecauter - Breathtaking nice!

April 23, 2010 - 04:11 Yvonne Roberts - This is a beautiful capture and well seen. Photography is more about seeing the visual possibilities of a location rather than merely snapping the shot. So you go girl! Keep lying down in the middle of tulip patches to bring us photos of tulips every bit as lovely as Keukenhof Gardens.

April 23, 2010 - 04:15 Yvonne Roberts - Laura, This is beautiful capture and well seen. Photographys is so much more about seeing the possibilities in a location rather than merely snapping ths shot. So, you go girl...keep lying down in patches of tulips. Your photos are every bit as lovely as if they were taken at Keukenhof Gardens. Yvonne :-)

April 25, 2010 - 17:56 Phil Vaughn - Ah, color Laura's way. Nice. Very, very nice!

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