Reflecting upon nature… part 6…

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Reflecting upon nature… part 5…

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Lap lap lap lap lap lap lap lap lap lap…

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Flowers AND sunsets…

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Still visiting my mom in the Bay Area. I found these weird flowers when I took her to a classical music concert in Berkeley yesterday.

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And of course I am still taking pictures of the sunsets from her deck and backyard.

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I took the flower pictures with my phone. They could be better.

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But you work with what you have… speaking of which, I said I was going to start posting a few chapters of two of my novels I am working on… but when I went to open the Word docs, I found out my license had expired on my version. I am working on that. But all my tech support people are back in San Diego.

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Is it just me, or do these look like they were grafted together from a bunch of different flowers?

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Maybe the sunset is a combination of sunsets too… HA!

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Anyway, I have a lot going on.

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So I will see you around.

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Reflecting upon nature… part 4…

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Reflecting upon nature… part 3…

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Reflecting upon nature… part 2…

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I love this effect. The animals stand perfectly still, but their reflections don’t. Also, stripes look cool in the water…

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Reflecting upon nature… part 1…

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I know, these are silly. But I like doing them.

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Some random photos of San Francisco while I tell you what I have coming up…

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So, yeah, I’m back at my mom’s house in the Bay Area once again. I took a few photos down at that dog park I like to go to.

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I brought two novels with me, one to start editing… even though I suck at editing. If I could edit, I wouldn’t have made any mistakes while I wrote them… and one to continue writing so I can finish it finally.

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In fact, if any of you are interested in editing… I mean, I can’t pay you, but you get a signed copy of the book sent to you, and a very nice mention on the credits page, and a blog post singing your praises… let me know.

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I am editing on the fourth book of my action/humor science fiction series; The Otherwhere Chronicles. I am also beginning work again on a novel I started way back when I was in my twenties.

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It is titled; How Thick The Blood That Binds Us… (I know, right?)

But that isn’t the exciting part. I think I am going to start posting chapters of one or both of those books. For a while, at least… to see if anybody is actually still reading the words here. Ha!

 

 

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What happens when you take a photo of tRump and work some magic on it… the final chapter…

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Now that’s a reptile dysfunction!

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Dogz and firemenz…

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My mom had stuff to do today, so I went down to my favorite dog park to make some new friends. And yes, that paw really is as big as it looks like it is.

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There is nothing like a really big, really sweet dog.

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I met lots of cool dogs. And you can’t beat the view from this particular dog park.

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Yup.

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I am still trying to capture that one perfect image of a dog shaking water off itself.

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I know it will happen sooner or later.

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That one has some pretty good tail drips. But i want that one photo where the dog’s face is all flapping around, and the dog is surrounded by a cloud of small water droplets, that the sun is catching just right so they all sparkle like little diamonds.

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SQUIRREL!!!

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The sun was too high today. Totally wrong angle.

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But you never really know until you get home and look at the photos on a good screen.

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On the way back to my mom’s house from the dog park, I stopped to get some groceries. And in the parking lot of the little mall, the local firemen were having a little street fair that included this demonstration of how they can take a car apart in order to save someone trapped inside.

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They had the windows out and the doors off in no time.

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By the time I came back out of the store just a few minutes later, the car had been dismantled, then stacked back together to make it easier to haul away.

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I made the joke that I was going to post these photos on my blog with a caption that read: ‘Never lock your keys in your car and ask the local firemen for help.’ They thought this was funny. We all started to give suggestions for other captions…

‘Never park your car in the handicapped space.’

‘Never leave your dog locked in your car on a hot day.’

‘Hey, we told you to get off the cell phone while you were driving.’

‘You should really pull over when you hear the siren.’

There were more. It was fun.

 

 

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