Yesterday was our 21st Wedding Anniversary and it was a great day. For the previous two nights The Bride and I had the privilege of watching one of our nieces. Yesterday after a causal breakfast and play time our day started like this:
After dropping the precious cargo at her Grands house we finished with this: 
The Boy is a great dog but he has to play second fiddle to our precious great-niece when she visits. So when she is here, well he gets sad eyes as is to say “What have you done?” Then he gets happy as she throws food on the floor and he gets to clean up after her…….stinking dog! Love that face.
I got a free download of Topaz Simple 4 with my purchase of PaintShop Pro X6. I did this a few months back but ran across it this evening and thought it would be cool to share. The bottom photo is the original pic.
The photo here is one I took Saturday night at a little art gallery/pub. I worked all day and met The Bride and some friends for dinner and after a little walkabout our hometown’s small downtown. After that we stopped by to cap off our night with some live music and coffee. The photo is unedited and I find it to have, like the music, a mellow vibe.
Around this time on this date last year I was heading back to see my Pops at the hospital. It would turn out the last time I would see him alive and I wouldn’t change it for anything. He was ready to go on living or to join Mom who died almost to the day one year before. Either way he was content for which I am grateful.
Daily I realize how blessed I was to have had my parents, first as Father and Mother, then and Mom and Pops, then as friends. I am also blessed to have had parents who loved me, and I them, and that we really liked each other. They are sorely missed by me and others. Yet through the hardship of it all, me and my best friend The Bride, have learned to live every day as well plan for the future all the while honoring the past. You can do it all I think but you must live every day because time is short. Life is about choices,choose daily that it is time to fly.
I tried to come up with a title for this post but I got nothing……..unlike the picture. Enjoy!
Not my typical style but I was inspired by Mike @ Mike’s Look at Life and the many looks and feels he reflects there. I find them to cool and awesome, two words that are neither cool or awesome to anyone under 30, and here is the result of that mind-set: Something different this way comes.
I first posted this shot as a B&W and was looking at it again today in its original form. I think I will have to go across that bridge soon and see where somewhere else is…….
Two years ago this weekend was the tipping point in my Moms health. I had talked to her about a performance I was in the following week, and though we had discussed this months in advance, I needed to know if she was still all right with it since it would mean me not being at her side when the “time came”. She was because she was a woman of her word. She also knew I would also follow through with my commitment as well. It was just a couple of days after the last performance I arrived at my folks house with The Bride to set with my Family as Mom finished this chapter of her Journey. The following is the Memorial haiku/short poem I wrote for our next chapter(s) and used one of my photos as the back drop.
Little did I know that in less than a year later my Pops would join her. Below is a photo I took of my mom’s dog Little Bit as she transferred her care to my Pops after my Mom passed. I think the photo it is a fitting conjuncture of the both of them as one, though one was not any more. As The Bride and I start a new chapter in our lives we look at the future with new eyes, ones with more wisdom I think, because of those who have come before. Yes they are gone, but they are not forgotten.
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Gone, But Not Forgotten.”
It is what it is and that is where I am at right now. Enjoy till the next time~ Peace.
Daffodil Hill Photography 