“On the Right Track” I hit the jackpot today as far as photography goes – my favorite subject, wearing his awesome hat, on the railroad tracks and from behind. As I read that last sentence the description starts to sound like an “adult” version of the game Clue. I had a whole lot more fun taking pictures than I would have playing a game of Clue, trust me! And no matter how much Weber may dislike being my subject yet…
“Good for the Sole” My funky striped hand-knit socks are the first things that come to my mind when I think about stripes. I don’t have much of a personal style except for my socks. They are like a smile on my feet. How can you not be happy when you are wearing brightly colored hand-knit socks? I am always surprised by the fact that my students notice my socks and ask about them. Over the years, I have…
“The Hand” This is not at all the picture I had in mind for today. I snapped several random shots this evening hoping for something that was even remotely on the mysterious side. When I saw this image, the Emerson quote came to mind. There is nothing really mysterious about this. Truthfully, there was nothing mysterious about any of the photos I took tonight. I had to abandon the daily prompt and go with the muse. Emerson is right…
“Weber’s Black Hat” The hat definitely looks best atop Weber’s head but he gets stuck so many days being the subject of the daily photo that I felt like I needed to accomplish this one all by myself. This almost looks like a silhouette, but it is just the hat hanging on one of our black dining room chairs. The image was taken in very low light to further address the “dark” prompt. All that said, below is probably my…
“Blade of Grass” I had a hard time with today’s prompt. The idea was to get those dancing bokeh circles atop blades of grass. That really needs to be photographed first thing in the morning when there is dew on the grass and beautiful morning light. That was not happening around here today. Let me tell you about our morning. First of all, the alarm went off way too early. All I could think of when it started beeping at…
“Playing With Mrs. Pota….Pumpkin Head” I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. – Henry David Thoreau – I love this man! How can you not when he speaks such wisdom? I guess this means that he would not have been interested in sharing that 10×10 cabin in the woods with me.
‘A Golden Day at the Fair” It was a beautiful fall day (finally!) and we went to the state fair. I didn’t take as many pictures as I would have liked and very few of the ones I did take had anything golden in them. The truth is, most of the things at the State Fair of Texas that come anywhere near being golden are that way as the result of being deep fried. I am happy to say that…
“Technical Patience” I have patience with a lot of things, but technology is not one of them. I want my phone, the technology at school and my computer at home to work how I want it all how I want it to work and when I need it to work. When technology does not perform as I expect it should, I become frustrated very quickly. Weber is just the opposite. He will spend hours trying to find out exactly what…
“Ode to the Laundry Basket” My brain is fried – I’ve had way too many things pulling me in way too many different directions lately. You know you are in trouble when you wonder what it would be like to live at the bottom of the laundry basket, where people are constantly tossing their dirty clothes at you. You know its time to call a professional when you are determined to figure it out! You know you are curious…
“Corner Store” As is always the case on Wednesdays, my time for accomplishing the daily photo is very limited. The thing that came to mind (and that was convenient because it is on the way to choir rehearsal) was this empty corner store. It sits on a fairly busy corner, but it houses no businesses. The more I thought about the notion of the building being forgotten, I realized that this corner store is symbolic of something much bigger that…