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I am the owner and site administrator of Forward Motion a writers' community of over 11,000 members -- which runs remarkably well, thanks to a wonderful staff of moderators and tech people. For the last seven years, I've produced Vision: A Resource for Writers. This is a nonfiction ezine with articles on different aspects of writing, as well as interviews with authors. I am also the head of a fantasy imprint for a small press/ebook publisher.

Photography has always been an important part of my world, and the advent of digital images has allowed me to share more of them than ever before, including my Picture a day blog. I also have a blog where I post pictures from the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska. This blog has won the attention of many teachers and some magazines. Several of the pictures now also appear on the University of Michigan's Animal Diversity Web Site. In the last two years, I've also become interested in digital art, using programs like Daz Studio, Bryce and Carrara.

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I love the colors on days like this! ]]> photo Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:22:32 -0700 http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+24.jpg.html http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+24.jpg.html
I'll close with a final picture of the pond with ducks, geese and coots settling in for the night. It was difficult to pick a mere twenty-four pictures out the several hundred that I took today. I hope you enjoyed them! (By the way, I use a Sony DSC-H1 digital camera. I'm always interested in what others are using, so I thought I would add information about my own!).]]> photo Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:51:25 -0700 http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+23.jpg.html http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+23.jpg.html
Finally a quick stop at the pond where we started, where I caught a little more of the sunset. This is one of the best reasons to live in this area. We have beautiful weather, at least for photography. I could have stood it a little warmer today, but it's better than it could have been -- the forecast is for snow on Tuesday!]]> photo Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:50:54 -0700 http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+22.jpg.html http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+22.jpg.html
So we drove off to the western edge of town so I could get some sunset pictures. We do this quite often -- it's one of the great joys of living in a small town. During the summer we sometimes watch thunderstorms moving in from here, and there's almost always a spectacular sunset!]]> photo Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:21:38 -0700 http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+21.jpg.html http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+21.jpg.html
I headed into my office to get some work done. The picture on my computer is Tea with Mr. Mouse, a piece I did with computer graphic programs. This is more like my regular day, which would have been horribly boring for anyone watching in from the outside. Writing, even in the age of Internet, is a solitary profession, and since most of the exciting stuff goes on inside the writer's head. I write every single day -- mostly because I love it. Tonight I made some progress on my new novel, looked over the writer's site I run (fmwriters.com), checked on my art gallery at ArtZone, read comments on a story I have up just for fun (http://zettestorybook.blogspot.com/) -- and noticed it was already getting dark!]]> photo Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:21:38 -0700 http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+20.jpg.html http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+20.jpg.html
This is a collage of all the kitty guys, who are really an important part of my life. There's always at least a couple of them in the office when I work, and a couple of them even sleep with us, especially in the cold winter. All of these cats, except the oldest (Lady Jane) were strays -- though Lady Jane was born to a stray we had taken in. The ones in the boxes are Lady Jane and Willow, the two girls. The pretend Siamese is Wind, the black and white in the middle is Pip and then 'the boys' at the bottom -- Edmond Black Kitty on the left and Zaphod's Just a Cat on the right. These two were abandoned kittens, barely a couple days old when we took them in. You can see pictures of them growing up here.]]> photo Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:21:38 -0700 http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+19.jpg.html http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+19.jpg.html
As you can tell, some of the kitty-guys were just overwhelmed with joy that we're home. This is Lady Jane Pudge'ums, the mackerel tabby, who is sixteen years old, and Edmond Black Kitty, who will be a year old in about ten days. ]]> photo Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:21:38 -0700 http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+18.jpg.html http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+18.jpg.html
And finally it's back over the Missouri River and into Nebraska once again, and heading home. We only live a few more blocks away. We live on the Nebraska side, but both Iowa and South Dakota are just over the river.]]> photo Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:21:37 -0700 http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+17.jpg.html http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+17.jpg.html
We drove back home and took a quick run over to Sioux City again to take this picture. It's a statue of Lewis and Clark and Seaman, the dog that traveled with them across country and back. It's a great statue, but every time I see it -- I can't help myself -- I think of it as Elvis, Napoleon, and Lewis and Clark's dog.]]> photo Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:49:09 -0700 http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+15.jpg.html http://mydayinphotos.com/Lazette+Gifford/Lazette+Gifford+-+15.jpg.html
This is a lovely little spot called Bullhead Pond in the refuge. ]]> photo Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:21:36 -0700