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Photographing Velvet


04 Jul

This soft painting is of one of the many beautiful flowers grown by my husband in our garden. He likes tall flowers, so we have lots of tall flowers.

Richard and I were finally able to see a movie today. M. Night Shyamala’s The Last Airbender. Not spectacular, but it was good and had a decent story.

With the eye-dazzling 3D I’m afraid that story is falling quickly to the wayside in favor of the “new” technology. 3D gives me a migraine like you wouldn’t believe! No pills help it. Only death, for a short time, alleviates that sort of migraine. I’m fine with 2D.

Richard and I like going to the movies, and for quite a long time there we were going once a week to the theatre. Now, it seems like the only stuff playing is live action stuff from comics, or games. The last movie that Richard and I saw, I think, was Half-Blood Prince and Richard fell asleep during it. I didn’t care for it, but Snape’s in it. That’s why I’ll be going to the last two movies in order to see him. I could care less about the kids, considering the fact that they aren’t kids, and aren’t precocious anymore.

Daniel Radcliffe is 21
Emma Watson is 20
Rupert Grint is 22
Tom Felton is 23

Please don’t anyone smek me. I just happen to prefer the first four books and when the kids were still kids (and Snape was still alive).

I best be quiet now or this whole post will turn into a rant on the last three books.

I think I’m rambling, now.

I’m trying to get back into blogging, but it’s difficult. I just don’t know what to write these days. It isn’t like I’m going to work and bludgeoning my boss, or running down pedestrians in my SUV, or choking on fast food, or any of that interesting stuff that’s called living.

My blog was turning into a rather painful reminder that I generally can’t leave my house without my husband. I don’t have any friends. We don’t drive. My existence is this house, my computer, two dogs, a cat, a husband, and photographing a dying tree and our gardens.

I didn’t want, and still don’t want, to step into my mind, self-analyse, and try to figure out what my problems are. Where I’d found contentment, I was then losing it.

Of course, I find it hard to read what others are doing, too. I would dearly love to meet some of the people I’ve met online, but as I cannot get on a plane, or travel by myself, that isn’t about to happen anytime soon.

Dangerous thoughts, these be. They lure me into dark corners that it is better off to avoid.

This sort of dark place is fine!

Mom’s 80th


18 Jun

My mother is 80 years old today. I tried to get us all together but financial situations and other life annoyances made that impossible. We’re hoping we can all get together in September/October of this year. Even if the brothers can’t make it, it will be good to see mom again.

A Difficult Day


16 Jan

I don’t like arguing with my husband, but you can’t live nearly every hour of everyday with a person and not have an argument now and then. At least this time I only stomped away once and I never cried. Usually I have a very difficult time of keeping my temper under control which means the point I wanted to make never really comes out quite right. This time I managed to make my point in a somewhat calm manner, and then it was all over.

It still wore me out, though, and my spirits are less than they should be. A small part of me still wants to cry, but a bigger part of me doesn’t want the tears. And that makes me tired, too.

That aside, I’ve been going through old photographs. I found some photos of Marcus when he was a puppy. I can’t believe he was ever that small. I think I’m going to start scanning all of them.

I have scanned two, so far. These were taken in the Monterey Cemetery. I like cemeteries. It’s silence. Hushed. Whispers.

I don’t like the newer cemeteries that don’t allow tombs and upright stones and statues. All they allow is an impersonal brass plaque. Might as well just assign all the dead a number and forget about who they were.

Here are the photos:

I found this beautiful statue watching over a group of babies that had been abandoned and found only after death. Someone put up this statue and put small stones over the tiny graves with the phrase carved into them, “Loved By God”.

I always liked this statue of Christ. He was beneath one of the eucalyptus trees and was always covered with dry leaves and other earthy detritus. There were always flowers at his feet whenever I visited. The old ones just dried until they crumbled away.

Tomorrow we’ll go to the movies unless the weather is really bad. We’ll go see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. That’s one we’ve been waiting for.

I Have Been Here Before

I am seeking a question.