“Beware” Anything having to do with a garden at our house this year requires a vivid imagination! I came up way short of creativity with today’s prompt. A trip to Target, ostensibly for throat lozenges to address the fall cold that I feel coming on, yielded this cute little Lego figure…and pumpkin spice M&Ms. This was the best I could do today. No garden, no creativity, no energy and a sore throat all make for blah a photo.
“Remember” It is hard for me to believe that this is the thirteenth anniversary of the horrific attacks on this country on September 11, 2001. The sounds, images, and emotions of that day are still as vivid as if they were yesterday. As I talked with my freshman college students yesterday, I realized that most of them were in kindergarten on this day in 2001; most of them were sheltered and protected from the intense grief and sorrow that blanketed…
‘Friends Don’t Let Friends Drink Alone”
“With My Favorite Somebody” Because my photo from Saturday was “off-prompt”, I got a little turned around with the daily prompts. This photo is actually yesterday’s self portrait that was supposed to be taken with someone else in the frame with me. I am committed to the monthly self portraits so I decided to forego today’s prompt of atmosphere or ambiance. Or maybe this works for both prompts and I can kill two birds with one stone. Whichever, I have…
“Paper Chase” And week two of the semesters begins…Despite having the day off yesterday, the work week got off to a rough start today. The alarm was set for 5:50. We got up at 6:44. Neither of us remembers the alarm going off all. The scary thing is that if it went off at all, it went off six times. We have never slept through the alarm once, let alone six times! Surely Weber didn’t hot the snooze button six…
“Got Milk” Weber’s dad worked for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad. We still have quite a bit of railroad paraphernalia around the house. For some reason, one of my favorite things is this small glass milk bottle. It is what milk was served in on the trains.
“Dad’s Cactus” My pictures and prompts for the last few days are all jumbled up. I love the cactus picture that I took yesterday so I am using it here for my response to today’s “green” prompt, despite the fact that it has a n abundance of blue. I probably should have swapped yesterday’s and today’s images, but I don’t look ahead at the prompts so I didn’t realize the proximity of these two. I did, however, take a “green”…
“Life and Beyond” My head has been in a hundred different places today and none of them was serene. I spent the morning reconstructing the document that I lost yesterday because of a hard drive issue and I had a series of phone calls to make and take that consumed this afternoon. Honestly, I was not the least bit inspired, but after my disappointment with yesterday’s photo, I managed a slight attitude adjustment and began looking for serenity in…
“One Short” Yesterday was not a good day. The hard drive on my computer decided that it was done…no more work for it. Unfortunately for me, this happened in the midst of saving a huge document that I was working on for school. On the positive side, Weber was able to retrieve most of the document and the rest I was able to reconstruct fairly easily today. I also had another course added to my load. I am denying that…
“No Grazing” Now that I have grazed myself through summer, it is time to get rid of the unnecessary and unwanted pounds that I acquired during the past few months. It is always easier for me to lose weight during the school year because my days are much more structured. We’ll see if I can reach my fall semester goal…just in time for Christmas cookies! “Missing?” This Picasso quote was the first thing that came to mind when I…