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About JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

Professional real estate appraiser Amateur photographer

Seasons

I’m wearing dark clothes today. The weekly photo challenge from Jen Hooks asked for a representation of a season or a season of life. If you look at my post from earlier this week you will see a good representation … Continue reading

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Life Imitates Art

Coming a little late to the game today I’m combining art and work. Cheri Lucas Rowlands challenged the WordPress community to focus on life imitating art for the weekly photo challenge. In my work I sometimes find art in statistics … Continue reading

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Photo Challenge: Time

My high school Latin teacher would walk around the room during a test and whisper “tempus fugit” to remind us that time is fleeing or time flies. Time: it’s the one thing you can’t get more of. Life is motion. … Continue reading

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Photo Challenge: Vibrant

It’s a gloomy day outside. Winter in California is the rainy season and, so far, it’s been a normal rainy/gloomy winter. Jen H. challenged the WordPress community to get vibrant! Here are a few winter samples of vibrant from the … Continue reading

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet

Another Friday another photo challenge… Michelle Weber laid down the gauntlet and said “Alphabet.” So I said:

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight(less)

Another week gone by but this one is different! Welcome to the first week of 2016. It’s the week where you keep writing 2015 as the date. The week where you most frequently practice crossing out and initialing your mistakes! … Continue reading

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Sunsets of a Different Color

Our 365th sunset for 2015 approaches and oh what a year it has been. Just pulled down median home price data for the San Francisco Bay Area from CoreLogic. See November 2015 prices here. The San Francisco Bay Area median … Continue reading

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San Francisco Bay Area Jobs in Winter Freeze

November 2015 employment figures from the California Employment Development Department (EDD) paint a winter scene with jobs stuck in the frozen ground like boundary marker poles on the ski slopes at Lake Tahoe this year. (See Nov. 2015 summary here … Continue reading

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Photo Challenge: Now

It’s the day before Christmas and not a camera was stirring… although earlier this week I did a selfie. It was in response to another photo challenge on another website. The idea was a headshot. I thought of Edward Weston’s … Continue reading

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Photo Challenge: Gathering

Winter in Northern California. It’s been a normal winter so far here in NorCal. That means we find rain in the rain gauge instead of dust. As I sit at my desk and look out my window I see clouds … Continue reading

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