More Photos from Wildacres

Below is Chuck, a photographer and an astronomer I met at Wildacres Retreat. When I asked if anyone could help me learn to use Barry's Nikon Camera I was told to ask Chuck. All week Chuck wandered the area and photographed people, each one present that week, and also flowers, crafters in their studios, and other things. He patiently taught me some basic things about my camera, but I still took tons of photos that were blurry until he saw that I had the digital camera set on Manual. Once he corrected my settings, I was able to capture a few good photos like the ones below.

The resident standard poodle would not pose for me to capture her face, but in this one she had just come out on the patio and was enjoying the long mountain view that all the humans enjoyed as they relaxed in their rocking chairs.

ORCHARD HOUSE

This is Orchard House at John C. Campbell Folk School. Here, in the living room, in the middle part of the old farm house, I met Nancy Simpson thirteen years ago. That was a turning point in my life.
We sat in the large room with big windows across the back, framing a veiw of field and forest and mountains, and wrote poems all day for five days in a row.
Now added on the far end of the house, just last year, a combination photo and writing studio houses eight Mac computers and a printer/copier. Some students prefer paper and pen and that is fine with me. I create better on paper than on the keyboard, but I LOVE the computer for re-writing. And we all know we must not be afraid to write badly, to pour out our thoughts, because we will re-write several times before we have a piece perfected.