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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Neighborhood friends.
Matt & Karen, Chris & Don, Sue & Gary.
Chris...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }The Sangamon County complex of buildings on 9th street between Adams to the North...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Gray, White or is it Silver
My hair, that is.
I like to think of it as silver.
M...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }The dense clouds creating rays of light and shadow on the downtown skyline.
The 3...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Just when I thought I could not get sillier…..
I noticed this hula girl fig...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Teresa - at camera right - recently retired after 35 years of service. Teresa doe...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }On Father’s Day, after saying goodby to our son and his bride Jennie, the a...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }As I was walking to my car tonight, I looked up.
Very nice cloud patterns against...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Taking advantage of the bay window in front of the house, I sat down for a portra...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }From Joni Mitchell’s song “Both Sides Now.” I almost titled it ...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Back to one at the Courts building on Monroe Street diagonal to the State Capitol...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Instinct.
Go with your gut feeling.
I had taken some great photos and was at home...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }The Man In The Mirror.
I do a daily look see at my face in the mirror after wakin...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }I saw the clouds, heavy with more rain, and thought of this grain storage facilit...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Coming to my car the other night, I saw the clouds, and the deep blue sky. No nee...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }The poem by Scotsman Robert Burns came to mind when I was taking this.
My neighbo...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }At the end of our birthday dinner with Chris & Jennie.
Chris actually celebr...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Originally called the Forum 30, this is the Hilton hotel in my home town.
It̵...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }I walked into the lower level of my home from the garage and saw the light.
I put...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 months ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }My blushing bride.
She still blushes, 30 years after saying “I do!”
T...
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