MOVING TO THE RHYTHM OF THE WAVES…
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I watch these amazing Great Blue Herons with fascination each time I see them….I always wonder what it’s like to live your life, moving to the rhythm of the waves. Whether it be walking or flying for these beautiful creatures, it all revolves around the waves.
In a larger sense, I guess we all do this. Life comes in waves and we bob up and down, the highs very high sometimes and the lows, very low at other times. Sometimes we tread water, just to keep our heads from going under and sometimes we float along with the waves, enjoying the ebb and the flow, moving to the rhythm of the waves.
GEE…IT’S GREAT TO BE GORGEOUS…
MY NAME IS GEORGE…
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Today class, we will study the word G…we will use “G” words to describe my friend George…ahem…
George is Giant…
George is Gorgeous…
George is Gleeful…
George is Grand…
George is Great…
George is Gregarious…
George’s friend has run out of “G’s”
NAPTIME…
No, I’m not tired…I’m not sleepy…I DON’T NEED A NAP! Well o.k., maybe just a little one…
I’M DREAMING ABOUT A BIG STEAK…
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I’M DREAMING THAT THE KITTY IN THE FIRST IMAGE IS A BIG STEAK…
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ANOTHER MOMENT WITH JOE…
A few weeks back, I posted a picture of “Joe” looking beautiful and dignified. It was a wonderful moment. He also gave me THIS sort of wonderful moment…
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Actually I think this was a really awesome moment!
ETIQUETTE AT THE AIRPORT…
When flying as a pilot, one must always respect the landing and take-off style of others. Let’s face it, some pilots are just better than others. Sometimes you experience that wonderful, gentle landing…other times your glasses fall off and your dentures fall out from the impact of the landing. Some pilots make graceful turns, others have you laying on your side and getting to know the person in the next seat much more personally than you’d like to.
PUT YOUR LANDING GEAR DOWN NOW!!!!!!!
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I’M COMING!, I’M COMING!..GET OUT OF THE WAY!
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A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH LEANING TO THE LEFT…THOSE POOR PASSENGERS!
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PATCH…
A new visitor!
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OOOH…WHAT IS THIS?
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LOOKL! I CAN HOLD THIS WITH NO HANDS!
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I CAN’T GET THIS THING OFF OF MY TONGUE!
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HE FELL ASLEEP WAITING FOR THE PEANUT TO LET GO OF HIS TONGUE!
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ZEE, ZAT…
I am zee blue-eyed pony…Am I not beautiful? Am I not fabulous? Am I not conceited? I think I am zee cat’s pajama’s..(which means, really really cool and awesome). Zee girls when they see me, fall in love with me and flutter their eyelashes at me. Zee other boy ponies are beside themselves with jealousy and go pout in the far back of the field. Zee flies do not bother me, and the farmer gives me extra oats..All zat is left to make my life complete is zat you fall in love with me also. Smooches and smooches I send you..
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BIG SKY…
Just another image from an afternoon that I spent with the horses…Can you feel the warm air and the breeze?
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Please Help Find Nichole
UPDATE: Last night, May 20th, the body of Nichole Kristine Cable was found just miles from her home. Continue to keep Nichole and her family in your hearts, pray even if you've never prayed before. The perpetrator is still out there somewhere. As more information becomes available, I will update you all accordingly.
Thank you so much for your support.
SUNSET STRIKES AGAIN…
Be patient with me….you may have to put up with a few more sunsets than you’d care to see…Once again, no tripod….I’ll never learn….just adjusted the exposure and removed some dust…otherwise….what you see is what you get, Zannyro doing everything in too big of a hurry.
LIGHTNING BOLT SUNSET..ACTUALLY NO LIGHTNING BOLTS WERE USED BY MOTHER NATURE…JUST SOME TOTALLY WILD CLOUDS.
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Here’s a close-up of those “pretend” lightning bolts…
DAN….DID YOU DO THIS?
Only I know what this means, so just enjoy…a little mystery never hurt anybody.
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THE FABULOUS FIN…
I love this photo…and I should admit that I’m a car lover..not every kind of car…but the ones with the awesome “lines”..flow and beauty and drama. I would love to have owned this car…but with airbags and seat belts.
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I DON’T USUALLY DO THIS…
I’m going to confess right up front…I used photoshop on these images…I used the procedure called “smearing”…I made that procedure up…I just smeared things around…no rhyme or reason to it….I didn’t smear up the animals…just the background…no animals were harmed in the making of these images.
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JACK SPARROW…
Ha! Gotcha…This is NOT the dashing and looney Jack Sparrow as played by Johnny Depp. If I added a little mascara around this little guys eyes, he might look even more dashing though…and maybe a pirate hat of some sort and crazy earrings and maybe a fu manchu moustache thingy, maybe THEN he’d look like Johnny Depp.
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BAD TO THE BONE…
I’m sorry, but the expression on the face of the bird on the left just looks crazy, o.k., not crazy…MEAN! He’s a bad sort..I can just tell…He’s going to sneak up and pull the feathers out of the innocent little bird in the middle. He could be planning on stealing the little sweet bird’s lunch money..or maybe steal away the sweet little bird’s girlfriend. This is a bad bird..sometimes you can just tell……o.k….alright…he’s sweet too…he’s not bad, he’s not mean, he’s impossible to resist.
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CONTEST…
For those of you who are trying to vote for my image in the fineartamerica contest..I am posting the link again and I hope that it will work…..If I receive enough votes, and it takes a lot…250 approx….The image of Bob and Joe will be considered for a commercial…..I’ve never done this before and so far it’s been kind of fun…forgive me for jumping onto the “vote for me” wagon….I think it would be fun for Melvin, who owns the horses….it will at least be fun for him to know that people voted for his horses, no matter how many votes it gets! 
Underneath the words VOTE COUNT you will see a vote for this image area, just click on those words.
Thank you!
http://fineartamerica.com/contests/national-tv-photo-contest-2.html?tab=vote&artworkid=5725275
AND NOW WE KNOW WHY…
Why my fascination with the behavior of Blue Jays? Well actually, I think ALL birds are fascinating, but I really do have the most fun photographing the Jays….and now I know why. My Mother was cleaning out her attic a while back…she collected up a few things that she thought I’d like to have since they were mine as a child or teenager. She put everything in an old suitcase that I had told her I wanted long long ago. The suitcase had been hers at one time. So we went through the treasures…sometime I’ll show you the dolls that I had…very interesting and disturbing. But back to the birds…guess what used to hang over my crib when I was a baby? It now hangs in a place of honor in my studio. Obviously, this was imprinted in my brain…I’m starting to wonder what else was hanging over my crib…chocolate bars?…a pink tutu?…
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IT’S ELEMENTAL…
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I visited Bob a week or two ago…well I actually visited with all of the horses…we walked the fields and I decided to use Bob as a picture frame again. Just a lazy hour with the horses…the best medicine ever.
BATTER UP!…
I bought a camera about two months ago and I’ve been slowly trying it out. It doesn’t compare to my Nikon d300 in many ways, but it does have it’s good points. It’s a Sony Cybershot with 50x zoom! I took these images, handheld, and they’re not too bad. I’ve posted an image to give you an idea of how far away we were from the batter. It’s still too slow for wildlife and the horses, but otherwise, I’m starting to really like it.
THE RIVER…
A Montana river, what’s not to like? This river flows under the bridge….such a beautiful area…it flows down from Blue Mountain…I love this shade of blue.
JUST A BRIDGE…
In February I took this photo of a bridge near Blue Mountain outside of Missoula Montana. I don’t know why I like it…
NATIONAL CUTE DAY…
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HELLO MY NAME IS PIPSQUEAK. I live under Zannyro’s bed and read her Agatha Christie books when she’s not looking. I apologize for not wearing shoes today, but zannyro says wearing high heels all of the time will give me ugly toes when I’m older. I spend most of my day waiting for Max the dog to come by so that I can jump out and pinch him and then I get to listen to him scream. Everybody has always wondered why he randomly shrieks and runs, so don’t tell them…they’ll make me stop.
(This squirrel does not really live under my bed…I’m positive, because after reading this I went and checked. Apparently it’s living under my bathtub.)
