7 posts tagged “clouds”
So... I will try this post again since I had to walk away in frustration yesterday.
Things are going great! I feel wonderful, this weird ass diet is working! No more headaches, yeah life is good. I am back to editing pics. Even got around to doing a fantasy piece again.
Edited some pics from the trip down south that made me realize that something was wrong with my belongings and not me!
So yeah this is not as good of a post as I had written up last night. Heck if anything it is minimalistic. But it's a start.
So I am off for a walk!
Namaste
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ~Bilbo Baggins
So, where to start.
It's only 10:00 a.m. and I have...
half of my laundry done already
vacuuming done
dishes done
living room done
beds stripped
Still need to do...
yard work (that will have to wait now.. too hot!)
counters wiped down
floors mopped
bathrooms cleaned
So basically I am half done with chores yay!
The best and worst of the deal... I now have an extra room of my own to do with as I please. The daughter moved back to Illinois, Arizona was too hard on her. 18, out of school, no friends... She moved back to her hometown. I can't blame her, it's hard to start all over in a new place when you know no one. At her age you need friends, it takes years to learn that you can amuse yourself right? Ok.. we always need friends who am I kidding!
So at first, I thought hey, I can get some stuff out of storage and go through it in there.. then I got it cleaned up and saw this little sign I had made for my last work out room and decided hell with storage space, I need my work out room back! So that will be my last chore of the day. Moving all my work out gear in there! One thing that is totally cool out here in AZ is that the weight bench can be left outside! Glad I don't have to bring that in. The nights and dawn are perfect for working out too, nice and cool.
Fall is almost here, I am looking forward to a nice warm (not hot) season. I have intermittent bouts of missing New England, but we have plans to drive up to the Flagstaff/Sedona area soon. That should be enough to remind me of how green the world is :)
I am also slowly getting back into editing mode. I have been scrounging around in my older albums and looking at alot of photos in a whole new light! It is such a good idea to never delete old photos, beauty that may not be here today, might show up tomorrow!
Hope everyones summer was great and not too wet!
And ooooh we have sooo much sunshine!
I am loving living in AZ, quite simply it has given me the love of my art back again.
I spent the day editing and talking to an old friend from my Star Wars Galaxies days. We reminisced and looked at old screenshots and sighed over the loss of what should have been one of the best games in the history of MMO's.
All in all, life is good! The hubby just got word from the boss that he is going to bumped up to Manager in about 2 weeks. This means guaranteed income now yay! But.. the best part is that means that he is going to be in charge of the store that will be opening up here in our neck of the woods.. double yay!
So yeah.. life is good, the sun is shining, the house is getting organized, the sun is shining, life is getting normal.. the sun is shining... :) Yeah, the sun is shining!
First is a lily of the valley macro that I took this past spring, I decided to look up a bit of the history about it while I was editing it and came up with almost a card look.
We felt like Pilgrims on our trek across the country. I couldn't think of anything to do with this pic other than the mundane.. which I can't do!
Saying farewell to the Ozarks.
My first incoming monsoon. I took this pic as the storm was deciding on if it wanted to grow or shrink!
Backing up to 2008 and our cruise on The Music Boat. Leaving port in Miami.
Another pic from The Music Boat Cruise. We took an off boat expedition to Tulum Mayan Temples. This piece of art pre-dates the 1600's!
A boat that someone had pulled ashore on the Tulum Mayan Temple shoreline.
I like to call it *Home*... Arizona baby, granted this is a bit farther north. Heading up towards Sedona. Such grandeur and beauty.
And with that title it kinda says it all!
I am still unpacking.. you know this ;)
I am still adjusting to Arizona.. you know this ;)
I am still using way to many emotes.. you know this :D
I don't have a whole lot to write, I haven't gotten a whole lot of chances to do any photography yet, monsoon season has been hiding, other than a couple little blowby storms, there just is not a whole heck of a lot going on in my life!
I did have time to edit a few of pics though, so I will at least share those to those of you who care lol.. So, back to unpacking and or.. editing more pics. My life is so redundant atm!
Yes, I sat down today and spent the day doing near nothing. Well besides waiting til almost noon to go to the storage shed when the weather warnings said not to do anything in the mid day due to the heat warnings.. So I am a newb to the desert... hang me out to dry with the rattlers ;)
As to the rest of my lazy day, well I actually got some editing done. My new header for instance. That moon is smiling over Texas. The first rest stop that we got to after entering that beautiful state we had to pull over so that I could photograph a monsoon cloud that we had been watching off to our right. Then I turned around and saw a beautiful full moon watching me, so I decided to watch him! I finally got to use my big telescopic lens yay!
Here is the monsoon cloud that we pulled over to watch. It is a bit grainy due to the fact that it was nearly full night time when I took it so I had to leave the shutter open for a bit to catch it.
But without further ado, here are the cows with the blooming Monsoon cloud in the distance.
And, it is raining... has been since I got home pretty much. Did I need anymore reason to want to move you ask?
I am also just blah, so just going to post the pics I edited today and turning in early, will try to write something witty tomorrow... I think the sun will be out also, they are calling for a gorgeous weekend!
So I decided to stop taking the meds that the doc prescribed me last year. What should have been a wonder drug did nothing more than kill my artistic side. I guess to be artistic I need to be a little bit insane it would seem..
Who am I to argue right? heh just kidding of course, I stopped taking my anti-depressant, well I should say I am in the process of doing it. With being on it as long as I have been I have to do a slow withdraw.
Funny thing is, within 3 days of slowing down on the meds I started to want to craft again and I started editing pics again. The mind is such a funny thing isn't it? I was taking meds to be happy, to be happy I have to be creative, but the meds were killing my creative side and I have been anything but happy. I would have to say the only thing that the meds did was give me clarity. I no longer had a million poems that I wanted to write all clammering in my head wanting to be released all at the same moment. Along with the poems are all my ideas for books that I have wanted to write, picture ideas that I want to try, oh and let's not forget that I love crafting, do you have any idea that amount of ideas for scrapbook pages that go through my head at any given moment of the day? My mind is a scary place to be some times. Busier then a New York subway and just a tad bit safer.
So, I have had a talk with myself and asked myself if I really want all that clutter back in my head and I decided after seeing the artwork that has come from my head the past few days that, Yes. Yes I can put up with talking to myself and bouncing ideas around in my head at any given time. It might mean I may be a bit slower to respond to the hubby now when he talks to me, but well... at least I won't be lonely right?
In a fit of inspiration this morning as I thought out this problem I wrote the following poem/story/whatever you want to call it. The tale ended up inspiring an idea for a manipulation photo.
When all the noise subsides
And darkness reigns in my mind
My solitude becomes all encompassing
Glorious peace, soul reviving rest...
The quiet becomes thin
The noise is a dull roar
Barreling down the tunnel of my mind
Screeching into my subconscious
Flailing blindly trying to grasp the direction
Slipping through my fingers like wisps of ether
Reeling to and fro, finally collapsing in a heap
Silence...
Finally...
Blissful silence...
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