‘Beginning to Become” Thursday afternoons are my favorite time of the week. I am done teaching for the week at 3:00. I can leave school and don’t have to be concerned about anything having to be done this evening. It is an awesome feeling after worrying on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights about making sure that I fully prepared for the following day. I do spend Friday’s preparing for the next week, but for now, I am free! Teaching…
‘Teachers Have Homework Too! The truth is that I have stacks of assignments to be graded and assigned to my students, but I couldn’t bear to photograph another stack of papers. Been there, done that this week. Also, Wednesdays are such a terrible day in terms of time, I needed a subject that I could photograph easily. Enter my beloved husband…he is such a good sport. I got a very quick, last minute of the day shot of him with…
“Paper Chase” And week two of the semesters begins…Despite having the day off yesterday, the work week got off to a rough start today. The alarm was set for 5:50. We got up at 6:44. Neither of us remembers the alarm going off all. The scary thing is that if it went off at all, it went off six times. We have never slept through the alarm once, let alone six times! Surely Weber didn’t hot the snooze button six…
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“Got Milk” Weber’s dad worked for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad. We still have quite a bit of railroad paraphernalia around the house. For some reason, one of my favorite things is this small glass milk bottle. It is what milk was served in on the trains.
“Flower Mandala” For over six years I have used the practice of drawing mandalas as a form of meditation. This discipline helped me to keep my head and my heart in the right place during what was a pretty rough period in my life. When I look back at my drawings from those years, I am transported right back to the time and place in which they were drawn. When I began drawing mandalas I had no idea that doing…
“Behind the Scenes” These tiny flowers have remained bright and cheerful though the hot summer and a bit of neglect. I’m not sure what they are, but I have grown quite fond of them this summer. For this image, I decided to take a look at the stems rather than the blooms. The “furry” green stems are really quite beautiful especially with the late evening sun illuminating them.
‘A Cooler Backpack” I should learn to read ahead. Since I used a photo of my own backpack earlier in the week for another prompt, I was stuck today when the prompt actually was “a backpack.” Throughout my day at school, I snapped several photos around campus with my phone, most of the people I did not know so I was a little leery of posting those photos. As it turns out, that didn’t matter; my favorite photo of the…
“Hermits Unite!” The “Hermits Unite!” motto has been ours since we got married. Though we laugh at it now, it represents some difficult choices that we made five years ago. I am happy to say that I have never doubted those choices.
“Planning for Class” I have completed my first week of the semester – one down, fifteen to go. I shouldn’t say it like that because it makes it sound like I only looking to the end and that is not the case at all. I have great students. Everyone seems so excited to be in class, looking forward to what the semester has to offer, and what they will accomplish. Even my 7:30 am class has been full of energy….