Category: Photography

It has been far to long since I have taken part in one of Paula’s challenges. I have for the last two nights tried once again to dress up the pig my site. As it is with any project i am on, well things are not going as planned. So instead of kicking the computer can down the road I took a break to do, well anything. Part of that is taking part in this challenge.

This is a pic I took back in December of 2012. It is of my Mom’s dog Lil’ Bit as she moved from my Mom’s side in her last days, to my dad’s side. It was originally in color but felt it would look good in B&W. I revisited this photo an interviewer asked me of all the photos I took which was my favorite photo. Like a parent with a hundred kids it is hard to say which is your favorite but this is in the top 3.

 

It has been a long road that My Bride and I have been on for the last four odd years. As she has worked through one challenge, and one revelation after the another in her pursuit of a nursing degree, she has been an inspiration to me and others as well.  A couple of night past ,as we talked before drifting into the sweet embrace of sleep, she said something to me that let me see her in a new light, even after a couple of decades plus of being her friend: ” Don’t dream it, be it!” Good advise to a dreamer like me.

As I try to figure out the look and feel of my site, and growing weary and frustrated with lack of real-world computer skills, life still goes on. There is my normal work schedule plus my new gig as the photographer for our local theater & playhouse. Oh, and my Brother’s handy man on a project at his house, 50-ish mile away as well as being the photographer for my work’s Volunteer Fashion Show as I mentioned in my last post this past Friday. Lot on my plate but good stuff all in all.

Several weeks back we got to dog-sit a very wonderful but fiercely independent Pomeranian for a friend of ours. The plan was to go to her house and me and my Bride would rotate evenings for me, and mornings for her. On my first rotation I opened the door and the house was greeted by a blast of hot air. Her A/C had died. Packing him up I headed home to what I thought would be a long week of little Guy against my tiny herd of animals. There was no need to worry all worked out well for all concern.  Well with the inside pack all was well but Butterfly my outside huntress simply tolerated Guy’s presence with hisses and the Evil- Eye.

My hope is to have this site ready to educated folks on Pollinators and our place in their world by the end of the month.Truthfully, I will need  to call in outside help with this site because as cool as this looks it is not user friendly as I want it to be.Till the next time here is a photo of Guy and Butterfly on their best behavior and one of a Chicory bloom from this raining morning.

 

 

Friday evening a Lady approached me an ask me “Do you remember me?” I looked at her and saw a hint of a face I remembered but only in her eyes. I looked again and said ” I should” but truthfully past the eyes I could not. She told me her name, which I did recognize, because in my last job I supplied her with O2 tanks and serviced her O2 concentrator. Since then she was the recipient of a successful lung transplant and looked beautiful to my eyes.

Here is a pic of her dog that matches my feelings of good news in ugly times.Embrace the day!