Bad, Bold, and Bodacious!

There's been a little exercise circulating in the blogosphere recently - you get assigned a letter of the alphabet and you have to pick ten words starting with that letter and get creative with it. I read Kim's "K" contribution on mouse medicine and was duly impressed, and since she volunteered to hand out further letters, I raised my hand. I got "B", so here we go!

Of course, living in a summer ocean resort, my first word is

B E A C H !

Easton's Beach in Newport, RI, also known as First Beach, also known as Newport Beach. This is a shot of the beach in January, but even in Winter it's a great place to hang out.

"Bridge" is a good "B" word. This is the Claiborne Pell/Newport Bridge, links Newport on Aquidneck Island with Jamestown on Conanicut Island.













Another apropos "B" word for Newport is "boat". I saw this beautiful schooner hull-down in a stiff breeze off Brenton Point last July.












A "B" word that I have a lot of fun photographing is "building". This is a shot of downtown Providence, RI, taken from Waterplace Park last May. I have a fascination with black & white shots of urban buildings both old and new, and Providence offers a rich treasure of old and new side by side.









Well look at this - now we get two "B" words in one picture: "bowl" and "block". And here we have a beautiful Dansk™ fruit bowl on a bamboo chopping block. I worked for Dansk™ for 11 years, so naturally most of my kitchen and dining table is stocked with stuff I got at work.










The next "B" word is "bottle". This was part of a photo shoot I did to illustrate the four elements, this being a shot for the element Water (you can see the final result of the shoot here). The bottle (yes, there's really only one; it was sitting in front of one mirror and sitting on another) is an antique medicine vial I found in a shop, and it holds water from Gooseneck Cove and sits on my personal altar to symbolize Water.












Of course, considering who I am and what I photograph most, one of my more important "B" words is "bird". You've seen this gorgeous little White-throated Sparrow before, but I thought I'd bring him back for this article anyhow.










Another important "B" word for me is "Buddha". I found this hand-carved Olivewood Laughing Buddha in a booth at the 2005 Newport Folk Festival, and I just had to have it. He now sits in one of my bookshelves. And that's the perfect segue to...












My last and probably my most important "B" word - "books". Here's that same Buddha sitting in his special spot on one of my bookshelves among a collection of books on various world religions. He looks very comfortable there, doesn't he?








And that's my collection of ten words beginning with "B"!

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