You know how sometimes, you go take a picture of flowers, and there are more flowers behind that flower…
This is a good time to play with your camera focus… just sayin’…
I mean, there were just a few flowers in my mom’s garden that caught my eye…
I am always trying to get that one perfect shot of that one perfect flower… like I do with the dog photos.
When sunlight and shadow combine in that one, brief moment, the beauty of nature defined and boiled down to its bare essence.
Yup, I am back at my mom’s house in the Bay Area, and yup, it is because another human being has passed away. This time, it was the mom of one of my two best friends, one of the two guys I grew up with, in a very real sense. We were brothers and more than brothers. We still are.
I did my: ‘getting up obscenely early, leaving San Diego so I could get through LA before the traffic started’ thing, and therefore, we have these pictures of the sun rising.
Ironically, while we said goodbye to one mother, my mom… well into her nineties… is in Europe again, this time with one of my brothers and his family. They couldn’t go up in the Eiffel Tower, because Trump was having dinner there. Trump has now impacted my family directly, rather than the more common, indirect ways in which he usually does it… to all of us.
Anyway, I don’t know how long I will be in the Bay Area, or what I will do, but I will try to keep up with the photos this time. The memorial service was lovely, and afterwards, we went to the house where my friend grew up, just up the street from the house where I grew up, and after a few beers, I found myself telling stories of ‘back in the day’ to all the nephews and nieces of my friend. They will never look at him the same way again. HA!
Yeah. Lots of people might find a wallet on the ground, take out the money, keep it, and throw the wallet in a dumpster… that doesn’t make it right.
But it is a refreshing change from all the other excuses…
We didn’t do it!
Well, maybe we did it, but it isn’t as bad as it looks.
Okay, we did it, but it isn’t illegal.
Obama… (or the Clintons)… did something much worse.
We will get back to you on that.
My lawyer will have to answer that.
Okay, yeah, I might be a little mad… but it isn’t contagious…
Also, try paying a little more attention. That picture is from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, not Alice in Wonderland. I could have done a title about how life is like a box of chocolates, but I didn’t.
… well, I did… but we didn’t have any conversations about anything… and if we did… they certainly weren’t illegal… wait… what is collusion again, exactly?
I took her to the children’s museum in downtown San Diego…
Because, you know, her parents just had twins, and they need a break.
And we had a pretty good time.
It took me a long time to do that one.
Yes, I know that isn’t my daughter, Mollie. That is the Queen of England. We saw her.
In fact, we saw the whole Royal Family, except for the new princess, who was too young to be brought out.
We chased the Royal Family down the Mall. They were in fancy carriages.
Right after we watched the Queen review the troops on her birthday… one of her two, yearly birthdays. You would know all this, if you went back two years ago, and read all about our European adventures.
You could try using the search bar thing, and typing in stuff like: ‘the queen’ and ‘royal family’ or ‘London’, ‘Paris’, ‘Germany’ or whatever.
You could also type in: ‘James Bond’… because we saw them filming the climatic ending for the Bond movie Spectre.
But the best part of the trip for me was hanging out with Mollie. She was 16 then, on her first trip to Europe. This and the next picture were taken on one of our adventure walks, where we get up early and have an adventure… hence, the name.
We were in a small town in the English countryside, staying with our cousin, Dot. I bet very few Americans have ever walked on that path.
But, to see the light in your kid’s eyes when they see something special for the first time…
That is priceless.
Hit this button!
Click it! Just do it!
Click to go to book page with links
A book for kids... Click to go to book page with links
Otherwheres Collide-my newest book
My latest novel
Pouring My Art Out by Arthur H. Browne is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Based on a work at https://pouringmyartout.wordpress.com/.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Pouring My Art Out 