7 posts tagged “green”
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.
Only a few more weeks and I get to say bye bye baby bye bye to this weather for good. We have had day after day of rain here, damn I hate arthritis!
We decided to head out of town for the holiday, I seriously think we are traveling more in the past few months then ever. Figures right? It's not as if we're packing to move or anything important heh. In all seriousness though, we had to bring some of our furniture up to the cabin before the move. It was not going with us and we had to do something with it.
There was no rain in NH this weekend yay! We got to say goodbye to family we won't see for a few years. Alot of family was at the cabin for the weekend so we got so very little sleep :). On our way home we decided to try one last time to find "The Bridge of Flowers". It is right off of beautiful Rt. 2 that I have mentioned a few times. Well, we finally found it! Wow even with it being so early in the growing season there were so many flowers to see!
So what should have been a 3ish hour ride turned into almost 8 hours. But it was well worth it :)
So yeah, I am bouncing from feeling on top of the world, to being totally pissed off. I hate going to bed pissed off, it ruins the whole next day doesn't it? It doesn't help any that I have also done nothing to end the argument that started yesterday. I have this issue with being the one to give in. I am a bit of a control freak.
So enough about what is going on in my head today. All in all health wise I am still feeling awesome, the toes amazingly are not hurting like I expected! SO yay beauty won out ;)
I also created a flickr group if anyone is interested in joining. I mailed out a few friend invites but if your interested the link is Humpday Photography
So to break in the new group I had to edit some pics I took today, yeah, I have gotten almost no work done around the house today, first I talked with Raymond for quite awhile on my yahoo pingbox then I just didn't feel like doing anything. I needed a day off, every one does now and then, especially when they are in such a pissy mood right? ;) So thank you Raymond for giving me a reason to slow down and chill out. I feel better for it!
So, I had some fun this morning... can you guess what this is btw?
I layered these with some textures to give them a vintage feel. I really like how they turned out :)
And last but not least is a pic I edited from our day at Cape Cod. I just have not had time to edit all the pics I took that day yet!
The Lies of the Mother
Becoming what we wanted to be
Only to become what we never wanted
Lies covered in sugar
Protecting their young
Beautiful wings of a graceful bird
Becoming the dark encompassing wings of a raven
Changing light to shadow
Putting fear into the hearts of loved ones
Having the power to change
But taking that choice away
The lies a Mother preaches
Haunting us through the ages.
So yesterday I started a list of things that I will "Not have" as part of my life in a few months, it is also the inspiration for today's image. The hubby and I were driving around last summer on one of the scenic routes out here, I think it was 8A, if I haven't said it in the past, I am saying it now. If you ever get to Massachusetts, you simply must drive 8A, pick it up in either Conn. or Vermont, and just drive the whole route, you will not be disappointed! Make sure to get out of the car whenever possible and explore also, there are lots of hidden waterfalls and wow just too much to list!
Leaving everything familiar behind...
Sights,
Smells,
Memories,
No more cornfields or fall colors
No more heavy sweaters every morning of the year
No more winter jackets needed over 6 months of the year
No more digging out of snow storms
No more frozen fingers, numb ears, frosty breath fogging up your glasses making it impossible to see through
No more snow angels, or... yellow snow
No more walking like a penguin, waddling while in layer upon layer of clothing, arms outstretched to keep balance on the ice
No more dense forest growth with fairy dreams just waiting to be awoken
No more beautiful rock walls, bubbling brooks or cow fields
No more fields of rolling green
No more bears foraging in the yard
No more tall tall trees... a plus and a minus considering that they also block all the sunlight :)
No more New England history
No more living around the corner from Tanglewood with summer nights on the lawn listening to the Boston Symphony Orchestra
No more eating at Joes Diner, the inspiration for "The Runaway" by Norman Rockwell
No more Shakespear and Co around the block
This move is such a mixed blessing/nightmare. For the first time ever I have had time to think about a move and find myself actually sick at heart thinking of moving from this area. But at the same time the people who live here are all so very fake, I have posted about that for the past several years, nothing has changed in that time. I pray to God that this is the right thing to do. I feel in my heart that it is and keep asking for guidance on this choice, the fact that I have not just come right out and changed my mind leads me to believe it is right. I am still waiting for one of the dreams where he talks to me again but so far no show.. at least that I remember that is!
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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So, with all the shit going on in our lives right now, we decided to move early! This is a good thing as I really have come to hate the North East.
I got playing around with Corel Essentials 4 tonight and messed around with some pics of Sedona that I took in '05 on our honeymoon. I told the hubby back then that we were going to retire to AZ, I just never expected to be moving there so soon!
