<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[SwittersB &amp; Exploring]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://swittersb.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[SwittersB &#38; Exploring]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://swittersb.com/author/swittersb/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[3 Hard Things&#8230;.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#8216;A Diamond, Steel &amp; Knowing One&#8217;s Self &#8216;  (Benjamin Franklin)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>I just chuckled as I considered my recent photographic efforts. I review the most gloriously beautiful images of travelers here on WP. Exotic, historical, once in a life time moments they enjoy and share. The vibrance, textures, humanity of it all is so powerful. I admire those travelers and their photographic eye, their vision. Thank goodness it is shared.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Because of late, for assorted reasons, I am photographing only the immediate things out my back door or while running a quick errand to the hardware store&#8230;maybe I see something. No profoundly beautiful locations. That will change at some point, but for now bare with me (tsk, tsk) as I snap the immediate stuff and  try to finesse those images into something meaningful, hopeful, affirming or humorous.</strong></p>
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