Now that I look at the picture, I am not 100% positive that they are dead. Do snails sleep on their backs? Do snails sleep at all? Do snails dream? Maybe they are just tucked up nice and tight, way down in those shells. Maybe they are having a sleepover. I don’t know the story. Maybe one is dead, and the other just lay down beside that one to die also. Whatever happened, there must be a story behind it.
Clouds in shiny glass. Nature and not nature juxtaposed. Artsy!
Identical buildings, one reflected in the other. I like my pictures of sunsets and birds and flowers and clouds, but I sometimes let the artist in me run wild, see if I can find some art hiding in plain sight, in places you don’t expect to find it.
I like that there is grey sky above the building, but blue sky in the reflections.
My wife and daughter stopped by to bring me sushi. I guess my daughter took this, through the car window, as they pulled up and caught me on my break. HA!
Not the best photo, but I love my hawk buddy. I see him almost every day.
If I could bring my real camera to work, I could get some awesome shots.
But there is only so much you can zoom in with my iPhone. I also see a coyote and a raccoon running around at night, but I haven’t managed to get any photos yet.
We had a brief rain shower, then the sun came out. I was interested in the way that the water ran into the cracks on the slanted parking area, and the cement below dried out first.
I’m sure there is some interesting thermodynamic name for this. Or maybe that would be hydrodynamic.
Fluffy clouds!
I like to put twelve pictures in each post. It is just a habit. So I leave you with a couple of my extra sunsets.
Okay, see you soon.
There I am, the other day, when my wife and I visited our friends with the three little kids. Don’t take it personally, I just like most kids better than I like most adults. I also like dogs and horses more, but let’s not get into that. I was showing them an app on my phone that would record their voices and turn their faces into funny talking animals.
What, you want me to pick you up?
Oh, we are doing this game… again… okay, go ahead.
But if your twin brother sees you doing this…
Oh… okay…
Go ahead… your brother is back in line already.
I don’t know why crawling between my legs is so much fun. Maybe it is just because I am taller than most people. Or I started it when I jumped over their heads.
Okay, you can take another turn… sheesh…
The thing… (hey, thing! where you been hiding?)… about little kids is that you can either play with them, or take pictures of them. It is hard to do both at the same time. That is why the only picture of me with the kids is the first one, taken by my wife. I am more of a playing with the kids person.
This group of photos shows what happens when two almost-two-year-old-boy-twins go head-to-head with their almost-five-year-old sister.
I am hoping to hear from the World Wrestling Federation about a sponsorship deal.
She almost has one of the twins pinned!
But this is a one-sided tag team match up…
His partner circles, looking for an opening, while their dad just looks like he wants to take a nap.
The action moves to the couch, which is never a good thing.
The ref sends them back to the center of the ring.
I know, it looks like they are not really moving… but trust me… they are.
There are no posed photos here. This is ringside action.
Okay… I don’t know what that move is called.
But I am pretty sure that is a reverse kung fu donkey kick to the spleen!
We went and visited our friends with the three young kids on Memorial day. You remember Olivia. I used to babysit her when she was little. We used to go to the zoo and take animal pictures for you.
She is still full of energy, charming, scary smart, and too adorable.
I couldn’t love her more if she was one of my own daughters.
She is just fun to be around.
She is an awesome friend to have.
Our imaginations just bounce off each other.
But we also saw her younger brothers… the twins!
So get ready for a couple of posts of some world-class roughhousing.
I was listening to NPR on the way to work yesterday… hey, don’t judge me, I’m old… and I heard that the part of the government responsible for protecting people’s basic rights is planning on rolling back the new rules that protect transgender people and people with any sexual identity that doesn’t fit in the male/female box… uh… so to speak… when it comes to receiving medical care. This was tRump’s idea, I am pretty sure.
So, and let me make sure I have this straight… uh, if you see what I mean… the republicans freak out if they think that anyone is even thinking of taking away a single gun right, and they hate controls or oversight on corporations polluting the planet, and they even think that the president should be able to commit crimes with no repercussions, but they still can’t bring themselves to allow some people to be treated like human beings because they don’t understand the idea that there might actually be more than just the male and female sexual identities. Oh, and they want to control women’s choices about their own bodies.
We are moving backwards in time. In is only a question of how long it takes until we are all living in caves and hunting woolly mammoths… yes, I know they went extinct, but all the other animals on the planet are going extinct too, including us, so it makes sense, from a sarcastic point of view.
You give them life, you pour yourself into them, but it doesn’t really feel real until you hold the actual paperback copy in your hands.
I think the cover came out pretty good. Thanks again to all of you who gave me input on the design.
Even though I have done two children’s books full of illustrations that I did, this is the first novel that I put a map into. So far, in my first read through, I have only found two small typos in the first third of the book. I can fix those. All the margins and page numbers and indents look good. I will put a link on the blog soon.
I know, it seems like I have been sharing these sunset pictures forever… but I took a lot of them.
You might recall that the rest of my family was back in San Diego, and I was spending some quality time with my 95-year-old mother.
We drove up into the Berkeley hills, and it was one hell of a sunset.
I do have a few random pictures of the city, from various elevations.
With my new job, I don’t feel like I can ask for time off for a while.
So, I will be missing the Bay Area, and my mom. She likes to sit in the car and enjoy the sunset.
And who wouldn’t enjoy that view?
It was amazing.
Alcatraz Island and the Golden Gate.
San Francisco.
Man, I want to go back. My family is going up there this weekend, and I am stuck here working the swing shift.
Oh, and my mom won’t be there, she is going to Italy with two of my brothers.
Yeah, you heard me.
She is going with a choir group to sing in the Vatican.
Then, she and my brothers are going a few places, and ending up in Venice.
She is one tough old gal.
Art can be such a catharsis…
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