Author: Laci

2024 Top and Least Favorite Books

I read a stupid amount of books this year. I clearly did not review all of them and due to that fact I decided to my list my five least favorite and five favorite books. Note: these are books I read this year not necessarily books that were published this year. I was also busy

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Exploring DFW Christmas Lights

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Even if you don’t celebrate anything today, I hope it is still a beautiful day. While I relax from all the all the baking I’ve been doing, enjoy these photos of a selection of the lights around Dallas. Do you go look at Christmas lights? Let me know your favorite holiday

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Writing Group: Poetry: The Weather

The prompt this week was a story or poem in which the weather played a key role. I wanted to play on It was a dark and stormy night but in a way that wasn’t spooky. How do you think I did? Let me know in the comments! Wind whips, howling highBranches tremble, leaves fly Caught

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Happy Autumn Adventures

Winter is pretty much here but enjoy some of my autumn adventure and chaos with dogs and goats and mules. Sometimes I feel like my life can be a bit of a circus and then I remember that I’m the one who willing goes on said adventured looking for a bit of chaos. Also, I

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Writing Group: Short Story: Houses

This week we all drew different descriptions of houses, homes. Some were creepy, some were sad, some were normal. My Prompt: Red Brick – This home is made of sturdy red brick and has seen better days. It has several large trees sitting on the overgrown lawn. Who lives here? The tire swing swayed in

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Goatman’s Bridge on 35mm

This is the last in my Dubblefilm Jelly review. If you missed the first couple of posts this is a 35mm color film that is overlaid with various other colors causing each photo to come out with a unique color gradient overtop it. This film comes in 200iso and 400iso. These photos were shot in

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Writing Group: Short Story: Alien Planet

The writing prompt for this week was to write about an alien planet. This could be a real planet, a fictional planet, or one based off planets in media. Whatever we wanted. This started out as a Firefly reference and turned into something that kind of Avatar-ish with some To Sleep in a Sea of

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Pilot Knoll Trail on 35mm

In a continuation of the Dubblefilm Jelly experiment I took my camera on the Pilot Knoll Trail. There are some good examples here about how sometimes there is a ton of added color and sometimes the pictures come out with almost no extra color. I really love the pictures of the trails – especially the

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Independent Bookstore: Arts & Letters

I was in Granbury, TX recently and while exploring the Granbury square realized they had a bookstore that I hadn’t been too yet. Arts & Letters is an adorable independent bookstore that I could have explored a whole lot longer if I had had the time. Nerd moment, this shop had all the normal book

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Fort Worth Nature Center on 35mm

I decided to test out some specialty kind of 35mm film. This is not an ad, just me being curious. The film I shot is called Dubblefilm Jelly 200ios. Dubblefilm makes color film that then has a unique color wash over it and every photo comes out differently. Jelly has multiple different colors: red, yellow,

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