Guitar (304/365)

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It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
~ Ziggy Marley

PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Guitar

Cam has a that in-born music thing. This was a gift he was given by (of all people) his middle school principal. He can't read a lick of guitar music, but he can play the hell out of this thing. It's amazing what he can teach himself with YouTube.

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X (303/365)

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Stumbling is not falling.
~ Malcolm X

PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: X

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Shot (302/365)

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
~ Michael Jordan

PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Shot

It was a hell of a week. I didn't miss a single shot tonight!

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Frost (301/365)

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“Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.”
~ Samuel Johnson

PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Frost

Do you suppose the same is true for a woman?

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Clips (300/365)

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"Paper clips are gregarious by nature, and solitary ones tend to look very, very depressed."
~ dwardu

PLACE: Cubicle Hell
SUBJECT: Clips

Why yes, I do separate my paper clips by size and type, but I also have one little section of my desk drawer organizer for all of those that don't belong anywhere else!

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Cat Food (299/365)

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"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"
~ Steven Wright

PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Cat Food

They wake me up every morning before the alarm clock goes off for this?

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Leaves (298/365)

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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
~ e. e. cummings

PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Leaves

Thought I had better snap one last photo before the impending storm blows them all away.

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Neon (297/365)

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“Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.”
~ Lenny Bruce

PLACE: Podunk v2
SUBJECT: Neon

I was doing laundry before the sun was up, and the neon next door was quite spectacular.

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Penguin (296/365)

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What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.
~ Dave Attell

PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Penguin

Cam's girlfriend made this for him in art class. Young love ...

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Hunter's Moon (295/365)

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The Hunter's Moon is so named because plenty of moonlight is ideal for hunters shooting migrating birds in Northern Europe. The name is also said to have been used by Native Americans as they tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winters ahead.

PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Hunter's Moon

I had never heard of a Hunter's Moon, but learned that it is the second full moon after the Harvest Moon. Who knew?

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Shred (294/365)

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
~ Brendan Gill

PLACE: Cubicle Hell
SUBJECT: Shred

I do a lot of this at work - a LOT!

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Wings (293/365)

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A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
~ Thomas Fuller

PLACE: Forest Preserve
SUBJECT: Wings

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Deere (292/365)

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"We're about John Wayne, Johnny Cash/ and John Deere way out here."
SOURCE: BBC News

PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Deere

Driving in Podunk offers many challenges in the spring and fall. You just might run into a Deere.

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South (291/365)

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“Don't be afraid to try again
Everyone goes south
Every now and then.”
~ Billy Joel

PLACE: Cubicle Hell Parking Lot
SUBJECT: South

They are off to visit Florida. Wish they'd get lost while on their winter break!

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Scramble (290/365)

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To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
~ Sydney Smith

PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Scramble

Sunday mornings I cook breakfast. One thing is always the same - cheesy garlic scrambled eggs.
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Red (289/365)

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A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol,
but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.
~ Denise Richards

PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Red

I think I'll get drunk on these red leaves instead. They never make me throw up!

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Theraputty (288/365)

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We are not bodies with silly putty, we are silly putty with bodies.
~ Kevin R. Bean

PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Theraputty

Aparently, this stuff is MAGIC! I received a phone call from Cam's school today telling me he has become an asset to the classroom and a real pleasure to be around. The difference? They gave him Theraputty this week. It seems to keep him far more focused in the classroom. Simple solutions - amazing!

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Statement (287/365)

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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
~ Ezra Pound

PLACE: Cubicle Hell
SUBJECT: Statement

I am one of those freaks who enjoys balancing a bank statement. This is my favorite task of each month!

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Straws (286/365)

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There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
~ Coleman Young

PLACE: Church
SUBJECT: Straw

You can't drink a slushie without a straw ... or so it seems. We must go through 300 straws on Wednesday nights.

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Purple Too (285/365)

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With daffodils mad footnotes for the spring,
And asters purple asterisks for autumn -
~Conrad Aiken, Preludes for Memnon, 1930

PLACE: Forest Preserve
SUBJECT: Purple

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Picnic Table (284/365)

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I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
~ Bess Truman

TIME: 12:30 PM
PLACE: Forest Preserve
SUBJECT: Picnic Table

It was a beautiful day to eat my lunch at the picnic table. Too bad I had no company.

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Gazebo (283/365)

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Chater: You insulted my wife in the gazebo yesterday evening!
Septimus: You are mistaken. I made love to your wife in the gazebo. She asked me to meet her there, I have her note somewhere, I dare say I could find it for you, and if someone is putting it about that I did not turn up, by God, sir, it is a slander.

TIME: 3:00 PM
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Gazebo

The tarp is off the gazebo, put away for the winter. Soon the leaves will be off the trees, put away for winter too!

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Car (282/365)

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Lightning McQueen: I'm a precision instrument of speed and aerodynamics.
Mater: You hurt your what?
Cars (2006)

TIME: 9:00 AM
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Car

This little micro car had been sitting on the bathroom floor for weeks. I'd see it every time I sat down to ... well ... you know. And every time I'd think I really should pick it up. It took scrubbing the bathroom floor to finally pick it up.

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Fall Harvest (281/365)

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And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.
~ Roy Bean

TIME: 6:00 PM
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Fall Harvest

The corn and the soybeans are gone. The soil has been turned for the winter.

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Outhouse (280/365)

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We are also having an outhouse parade and outhouse races.
~ Brenda Phalin

TIME: 3:30 PM
PLACE: Cubicle Hell
SUBJECT: Outhouse

There has been significant sewer/water work being done in Podunk - specifically the sewer/water supply to my work place. We've had several 2-3 hour water shut downs but had a full day shut down Thursday. Fortunately, my employer decided it was time to provide some temporary facilities!

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Floor (279/365)

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“You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.”
~ Joe E. Lewis

TIME: 8:00 PM
PLACE: Church
SUBJECT: Floor

Sometimes I want nothing more to get drunk and attempt to hold on to the floor on Wednesday nights. OK ... fine! I kind of like the middle schoolers ...

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Milkweed (278/365)

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The milkweed brings up to my very door
The theme of wanton waste in peace and war....
~ Robert Frost

TIME: 5:00 PM
PLACE: Forest Preserve
SUBJECT: Milkweed

Milkweed - and cool bugs - are in bloom!

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Watching (277/365)

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“It's a lot of watching.”
~ Amy Weinsheim

TIME: 8:00 PM
PLACE: Podunk v2
SUBJECT: Watching

It was really nice Monday evening, so while doing my laundry I decided I'd sit outside while waiting for the washer to finish. But these chairs were watching me, so I went back in ...

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Bubbles (276/365)

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“In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.”
~ John Webster

TIME: 6:00 PM
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Bubbles

You're never too old to enjoy blowing bubbles. And yes, he would kill me if he knew I had taken this photo!

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Dead (275/365)

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

TIME: 1:00 PM
PLACE: Forest Preserve
SUBJECT: Dead

Sometimes, what it past its prime is every bit as much as beautiful.

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Boo (274/365)

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I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.
~ Sergio Aragones

TIME: 5:00 PM
PLACE: Cubicle Hell
SUBJECT: Boo

The 1st of October all of the Halloween decorations begin adorning the tops of cubicles. This is my only decoration - the ghost who only looks scary because he resembles the Michelin Man on crack!

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