Week 36 Porter Family

Really, I do not like shooting people pics.  Shooting people is tough no matter how great the people are to work with and these guys were awesome!  I always worry that I just will not be able to execute a good photo.  Somehow, I stuffed four people on this bench I made Mike buy at a yard sale and made it magic.  LOL  My how Miles has grown. It's odd to say the "Porter" since to me Marisa is still a itty bitty blonde haired blued eyes baby and now she is all grown up with her own cloned children!

 

Week 35 Fall Has Fell

Fall has fell! Literally, fell right off the trees.  Fall is here and as I predicted it would not be a spectacular fall but no one ever listens to me.  I said, the leaves are just falling off the trees they are not really turning any deep rich color but no one listened to me.  When it rained at just the right time and then we had a couple of windy days I said, this all came at a bad time the leaves are being beaten off the trees but no one listened.  Now the evidence is undeniable they are just turning loose from the trees.  The color from a distance is still beautiful and I had been watching this spot for awhile now and the morning I saw clouds and a little color in the sky and hoped in the car.  The light could not have been better but still not what I have hoped for in the light.

Week 34 Things I have Learned or Maybe Knew and Denied During Illness

1.  I can drink a beverage with more or less than 3 cubes of ice.  If someone brings it to me. 

2.  I did not die of boredom even though I was sure I would.

3.  I can sit though movie without falling asleep.  I proved that 3 times.

4.  I still enjoy surgery drugs.

5.  I am not as tough as used to be once the drugs wore off and they quit prescribing the good stuff,     I was over it.

6.  I am always doing something when I could not do anything I realized how much I do unknowingly. 

7.  You do not need a shower everyday, well may I do need a shower daily, but it is not a deal breaker. 

8.  A shower will improve your mood.  Enough said.

9.  If you sit in the recliner or bed long enough you will freeze in that position. 

10.  A shower will improve you mood. Really!

11.  Your family drama is way more tolerable under the influence of drugs.  I can see how people get hooked. 

12.  Maybe I don't "need" a shower every day but thinking I can't have one makes me "need" one!

13.  I am not good at "resting" physically or mentally.

14.  I have so many issues they started to wear me out.

15.  I really need to have the option to shower every day.

Week 33 Nashville Here I Come

For whatever reason, I had been so looking forward to Nashville since I first found out about it.  I felt if I could get out of town and get some distance even if only a couple hundred miles I could find myself again.  I could forget about family drama, work drama, personal drama and that is exactly what happened.  I didn't spend money at the nice mall, go to exotic museums or meet the famous people, that were alive.  I grabbed my camera and plotted my course for the nearest and dearest cemetery and thought about nothing but photography. If only for a few days I chose to forget and spend time thinking about good things. 

Since I had never been to this cemetery and I was not expecting it to be this great I decided to only photograph things I had never seen before.  This is one of the most moving and saddest monuments I have ever seen.  The expressions and movements of the children are so lifelike it was scarily touching.  This was on the stone below.
John Burch 09-03-1881 - 09-22-1886
Leslie Jr.  10-17-1885 - 01-09-1886
Maria Burch 12-12-1886 - 03-22-1887
The gardner asked, "who plucked these flower?" The answer was, "the master."  And the gardner held his peace.

Week 32 Keeping my Grove

I love my window.  OK, I love looking out my window, all year, I love looking at my window.  You just never know what you'll see.  Plus, I watch this tree all year long and admire how faithful the tree it to give me great pleasure in watching the leaves turn in the fall and and the buds form in the spring.  I consider it to be amazing! 

Week 31 - How Donna Got Her Groove Back

 

I have sort of been in funk, rut, stressed, depressed bottomless hole lately.  Not exactly sure why or what or if there really is a good reason.  I been there before on occasion, I know it is temporary and if  I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, in time it passes. This seemed a little longer a little darker and I think I loose sight of the good things, the positive things, the joy in life.  The bad things seem bigger and worse when in reality they're nothing but distractions from what is important.  When surrounded by great beauty it's hard not to snap out of it!  I love a good sunset and sitting there trying to figure out how many colors are in sky.  I don't have to answer the phones ringing, the texts flying, emails rolling and pings going on faster than I get get to them or deal with anyone else's drama.  Just stare and the sky and count the colors. 

Week 30 - Gone With The Wind

This is a double week on the same day post but since I'm always behind I'm counting it as two posts for two weeks.  It's my blog so I can do that you know.  Sometimes I eat junk food before and for dinner.  Being a grown up occasionally has it perks.   On this date 63 years ago a southern great, Margaret Mitchell, died after being hit by a cab while crossing the road.  She put the south on the map for something other than loosing the war.  She proved that even though we had accents we were intelligent.  Gone With The Wind may have happened by accident and in haste but it was a turning point for the south.  We had culture and intellect and were more than slavery.  When we knew better we did better.