foto friday

Going back to the root goal of my photography - having my photos available to those who want them, I've decided to make Fridays a sharing day. I will provide a different photo each Friday that you can download and print for your personal use. The photo is in pdf form. You will need Adobe Reader to open the file. You can download Reader for free here. I'm new to this downloading stuff and am using dropbox to facilitate the transfer. If you have any problems downloading the photo, please let me know.

In B&W

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swimming upstream

Yesterday, Miss J and I took Grandma - who is visiting for the week - to the Oroville Fish Hatchery to check out the salmon. This is the time of year when the salmon are spawning. The Hatchery opens their ladder and you can watch the salmon swim in and up. There is even an underwater viewing area where you can get an up close view of the fish as they struggle upstream. The first time I went a few years ago and looked a salmon in the eye, I knew I would never eat salmon again. I can't. Bless her heart, Grandma said the same thing yesterday.

taken with my iPhone

cat saturday & foto friday

Sorry! I missed foto friday. Here's a kitty photo available to download.

Going back to the root goal of my photography - having my photos available to those who want them, I've decided to make Fridays a sharing day. I will provide a different photo each Friday that you can download and print for your personal use. The photo is in pdf form. You will need Adobe Reader to open the file. You can download Reader for free here. I'm new to this downloading stuff and am using dropbox to facilitate the transfer. If you have any problems downloading the photo, please let me know.

Graycee

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birds on the brain

I went to see Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds this afternoon. Fathom Events ran the movie in theaters around the states. It has been years since I've seen it. It is terrifying and magnificent. Still. From the idea of birds turning on humans to the blonde perfection of Tippi Hedren. It did make me feel a little homesick - okay, a lot. Beginning in San Francisco then set in Bodega Bay which is just a stone's throw away from "home." How I miss the ocean. Anyway...in honor of the crow in the below publicity shot of Ms. Hedren, I've gathered a few favorite crow pictures.

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pretty pretty paper

Sheets of handmade paper, taken at my sister's store - Petaluma Art & Earth - with my iPhone.

the bridge

I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, 

spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. 

Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, 

celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar.

For if we can't be happy now, 

we'll likely not be happy when.

Philip Gulley

Porch Talk

time enough to cry

As I was walking down the street one day
A man came up to me and asked me what
The time was that was on my watch, yeah...And I said

Does anybody really know what time it is
Does anybody really care
If so I can't imagine why
We've all got time enough to cry

And I was walking down the street one day
A pretty lady looked at me
And said her diamond watch had stopped cold dead...And I said

Does anybody really know what time it is
 Does anybody really care
If so I can't imagine why
We've all got time enough to cry

And I was walking down the street one day
Being pushed and shoved by people trying to
Beat the clock, oh, no I just don't know
I don't know, and I said, yes I said

People runnin' everywhere
Don't know where to go
Don't know where I am
Can't see past the next step
Don't have time to think past the last mile
Have no time to look around
Just run around, run around and think why

Does anybody really know what time it is
 Does anybody really care
If so I can't imagine why
We've all got time enough to die
Everybody's working I don't care
About time I don't care

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is

by Robert Lamm

no words

sunday sermon

Everybody is unique. 

 Do not compare yourself with anybody else 

lest you spoil God's curriculum.

Baal Shem Tov

cat saturday

Kaos

foto friday

Going back to the root goal of my photography - having my photos available to those who want them, I've decided to make Fridays a sharing day. I will provide a different photo each Friday that you can download and print for your personal use. The photo is in pdf form. You will need Adobe Reader to open the file. You can download Reader for free here. I'm new to this downloading stuff and am using dropbox to facilitate the transfer. If you have any problems downloading the photo, please let me know.

Marbles

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besom

For the last couple of days, I've been preparing a post about needing to cry and the cat who always made me cry when I was holding it back. She's been dead for years and I haven't done the post yet because I've been trying to find a particular photo of her in my archives. Life has a way of interrupting plans. This morning I opened the front gate and found a dead cat lying in the path. It was one of the strays I have been trying to win over so I could get him neutered. He was a tiny silver and grey tabby. I called him Besom. I noticed about a week ago, he stopped coming around. When I went looking and found him, I could tell he was sick. I tried wooing him. I tried trapping him. But I just couldn't catch him. He died outside my door sometime last night. I'm so grateful he came to me at the last. I was finally able to touch him and stroke him. I gave him a burial in my backyard. I have no pictures of him. He would never get close enough. I will never forget him. 

A feather, rock, and two hibiscus flowers

buried with Besom

along with a handful of food for the journey.

cat saturday

Ears