Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: home

Better home life on lockdown

When we all return to our new normal after the pandemic, I will miss the better home life we have during it.

8 May 2020
Christmas calls you home

A meditation this Christmas: the birth of Christ calls you home.

25 December 2019
On the corner of Erskine and Woodside, 1976-1985

Posting about my childhood neighborhood the other day led me to look through my photo archive for good images around my house when I lived there in the 1970s and 1980s.

27 October 2017
single frame: Along the north wall

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21 September 2017
single frame: Kitchen window, redux

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22 August 2017
Do any of your photographs hang in your home?

Do any of your photographs hang in your home? How did you choose them? How did you frame and display them? Six of my photos hang in my home; I share them.

2 August 2017
Consumed with home projects

I’m so busy with home projects I don’t really have time to blog. So I’m writing about my home projects.

12 July 2017
single frame: Salvation Army donation

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27 June 2017
single frame: Garrett, bored

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15 June 2017
single frame: Garrett, down the hall

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13 June 2017
Captured: Delicious evening light over the deck

One evening in May the setting sun cast a warm, brown light into my neighborhood. I grabbed my Canon PowerShot S95 and tried to capture it. I wish all of my cameras had a “capture this just like it is” setting. Frustratingly, the S95 kept wanting to auto-white-balance the light back to normal. I ended up…

26 June 2015
An expensive little bug

I have enough experience with small engines to know that the sounds my push mower was making were terminal. I lack enough experience with small engines to know exactly what was wrong. It didn’t matter: the engine made a sudden, sickly “hwangggg!” sound and lurched to its final rest. Thankfully, I also have a tractor, so…

4 May 2015