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“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies for instance.”
~ John Ruskin
TIME: 12:30 PM
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Lilies
I've always loved lilies, and they grow wild and untamed along the roadsides here in Podunk!
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TIME: 12:30 PM
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Skirt
“A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.”
~ Ronald Knox
I splurged this weekend and bought new (i.e. did NOT shop at Goodwill) work clothes, but I did stay on the clearance racks and got these two skirts, two tops and a cardigan for only $51.02 ... not bad!
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TIME: 8:00 PM
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Firefly
“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”
~ Crowfoot
Do you see it? That short, golden streak on the left side of the photo? Not only are there challenges with settings to capture fireflies on a point and shoot camera, but the dang critters don't hold still when they are flying!
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TIME: 5:30 PM
PLACE: Cubicle Hell Parking Lot
SUBJECT: Terrorist
“Johnny Appleseed was a fucking biological terrorist.”
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Odd title for this photo, don't you think? Here is the story ...
As I was leaving work Friday I was looking for a photo that would capture the storm we had. I don't usually consider what people will think when I'm taking photos, I mean, I have a camera - what else would I be doing?
Up drives the President of the company. Calling this guy an egocentric douchebag would be a compliment. He slows down as he approaches me. Honestly? This guy never even acknowledges me 98% of the time. As he slows down he rolls his window down and asks (quite sternly), "What are you doing?"
I've got a camera in my hand - I'm pointing it at things and snapping shots - what do you think I'm doing?? OK, I didn't say that, but instead responded with, "Don't mind me - I'm just taking a few shots trying to capture the storm."
To which he replied, "You aren't a terrorist are you?"
It would have been funny ... except he was serious ...
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TIME: 5:00 PM
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Construction
“The road to success is always under construction”
~ Lily Tomlin
Road construction is always a pain, but when you live in a small town where only ONE road goes over the railroad tracks, and it is under construction, the pain becomes somewhat debilitating. Our main street is being revamped and repaved (it needed it) but the only route around the construction adds 7 miles to my less than 2 mile commute.
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TIME: 1:00 PM
PLACE: Forest Preserve
SUBJECT: Twig 'n Berries
"Eww,their trouser snakes, their wedding tackle, their twig 'n berries! They turned gold!"
Austin Powers: Goldmember - 2002
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TIME: 6:00 PM
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Tea Pot
“Strange how a teapot
Can represent at the same time
The comforts of solitude
And the pleasures of company”
~ Zen Haiku
I realized that I had not given the proper respect to this teapot. You see, it came along with this friend - a friend who remembered that I collect teapots - a friend who probably didn't realize my teapots were left (temporarily) behind - and a friend who made the sometimes cold concrete slab walls of this apartment feel a little more like home!
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