by Sally | Dec 16, 2025 | Holidays, Sally Buffington, Thinking |
I grew up with two fathers: one, my biological father and the other, Joannes Brahms, the composer whose music Daddy and I most loved. At times the two blend together in my mind, for whenever I hear the music of Brahms, I’m folded into a wordless embrace of intimacy...
by Sally | Nov 6, 2025 | Nature and Places, Sally Buffington, Seeing and Photography |
Hello, and thanks for stopping by. Just wanted to let you know that my blog will continue, also that this website will undergo some changes in the new year. Www.sallybuffington.com is growing up. If you’re already a faithful reader who wonders why blog posts have...
by Sally | Jun 30, 2025 | Cape Cod, Nature and Places, Places, Sally Buffington, Seeing and Photography |
Here’s my photo “Gifts of the Rain,” awarded Third Prize, Color Waterscapes, in the Exhibition of Photography at the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar. But there’s more to it than this single image, beyond my pleasure at having won a prize. You see the exhibit print...
by Sally | Jun 13, 2025 | On My Mind, Sally Buffington |
The detours life hands you. My photographic file for the month of May moves happily from scenes of church, to the beach, to blooming flowers in my neighborhood—and then to images like the one above. Then: a hospital room, albeit with a view; I spent two stays in...
by Sally | Apr 23, 2025 | Nature and Places, Sally Buffington, San Diego, Seeing and Photography |
I’m driving one of my favorite roads, the drive to Borrego Springs, and now I’m starting the stretch running seven miles from the mountain town of Julian through the hamlet of Banner, “the Banner Road.” Whoo boy! Lots of curves-–what great driving! This is not a road...
by Sally | Mar 14, 2025 | Places, Sally Buffington |
You’re reading the first in a series of posts about travel and places, this one occasioned by Andy’s and my upcoming annual trip to the Anza Borrego Desert in southern California, northeast of San Diego. Borrego’s two-and-a-half hours away; more than that, it is a...