Month: September 2019

Today is the second to last picture for this project. I thought I would just take a picture of all the stuff I gathered as I worked on it over the last year. If you have been following the project you may recognize some of the stuff used in different pictures.

I folded this thing and I just wasn’t happy with the design of either side. So, I cut it in half and got this. I thought it was more interesting than either side alone. Isn’t that how life sometimes is? We fill it with routines or friends who are just like us and it isn’t until we do something different or meet someone new that we get out of our rut and see things in new and exciting ways?

I didn’t pay attention to some of the details, like some debris on my background and maybe a little something on the lens. I considered cleaning things up and retaking the picture, but then I thought how everything has imperfections. Except for people’s carefully composed social media feeds that resemble real life about as much as a hippopotamus resembles an apple pie. And I just decided to leave them in there today.

Just added a bit of that winter feel to the pine tree.

It’s late and I’m tired. Some days make you question whether to be grateful or whether to be annoyed. I could probably go either way today, but I think I’m going to choose to be grateful.

I knew going into it that today was going to be less than ideal. I had a car breakdown on Sunday that I had to deal with today. I suspected it would take a couple of hours, but it turned into a much larger production that ate up a bigger part of the day than I had anticipated.

But I had help from family and friends to get me where I needed to be and where I couldn’t get to because I was carless and fancy free. I hate having to call on people and inconvenience them when things happen, but it’s really nice to know that you have people like that in your life, especially when you haven’t got a car in the world.

And at the end of the day I got a nice little shot of some crocuses.

I decided to make another little wire tree. Enjoy!

This would probably be a better Halloween picture, but by then this project will be over.

But if Bob Ross ate this much candy before the show just imagine how entertaining that show would be.

Some days are like this. You just don’t quite know what it is you’re looking at, but there it is nevertheless.

It’s a simple word but can mean so many things. I’ll leave the interpretation up to you.

Is it odd that I find the old Sunny Delight commercials the closest thing ever to honest advertising. Not because of the flavor of Sunny Delight, however, but because of the description of the drink in the back of the fridge. Purple stuff.

Have you ever had a grape flavored — anything that tasted like grape? They have a similar flavor to each other and they claim to be grape flavored but no one who has ever eaten a grape would be deceived. They taste, well, purple.

In honor of the flavor purple I give you these purple blooms.

Only ten pictures left.

Today I found out another friend has cancer. That never makes for a great day. Even though there is good news in cancer research, it never ceases to be devastating news when someone you know gets the diagnosis.

So, this one goes out with love and a lot of hope of a successful treatment and full recovery.