Pouring My Art Out

The many shades of me… part 6…

Posted on May 5, 2017 by pouringmyartout

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Are we really going to let this guy make medical cuts???

Posted on May 4, 2017 by pouringmyartout

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And now, another gratuitous post of Bay Area sunset photos…

Posted on May 4, 2017 by pouringmyartout

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Ha! That’s an artsy one. That is taken through the leaves of that old plum tree on the top level of my mom’s backyard.

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You can see little wisps of fog creeping in over the bay, the same fog that was coming in under the Golden Gate when I was meeting those dogs.

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Redwood trees and some distant Eucalyptus… Eucalypti?

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The flowers blooming on a tree in the dying light of the setting sun.

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I still love the yard at my mom’s house… so many good childhood memories.

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mmmm… colors…

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The fog is getting thicker.

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Can you see the roses in the foreground?

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Even more fog.

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When I got to the Bay Area yesterday afternoon, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. This morning, there wasn’t a sky in the clouds… or fog… HA!

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Happy dogs!!!

Posted on May 4, 2017 by pouringmyartout

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I told you I met some cool dogs yesterday, and I said I would have some pictures.

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That is a dog getting ready to chase a ball.

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That is a dog who has a purpose.

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I love going down to the bay, taking pictures of San Francisco and the Golden Gate bridge, but I love this place most of all because of all the dogs. Especially when my dog is 500 miles away.

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Plus, taking pictures of running dogs is a fun challenge.

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Okay, that isn’t perfect, but I sort of like it anyway.

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But they can’t all be perfect, can they?

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I petted that dog too. She is deaf and moves slowly, but is very sweet.

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Okey dokey, back in a bit.

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The thing is…

Posted on May 4, 2017 by pouringmyartout

… that there is always a thing. Life is things, and things are life. I mean, when you get right down to it, everything is a thing, so every thing is a thing. Well, we aren’t supposed to call living things things, not unless we mean all of them, which is ironic. You can’t call a person a thing, even though they are a living thing, right? Not even if you have a thing for them… or with them. Hey, it’s your thing, do what you want to do. Thing one or thing two, or maybe both things together, that would be something. So get your thing together… get all your things in order, take care of things, because things can’t take care of themselves, even though, supposedly, sometimes things will all work out. Things can be bad, but things might be getting better. Things keep happening, and would you really want it any other way? Because there is nothing sadder than nothing happening. That literally means that no thing is happening. That is a scary thing to think about.

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Well, it sucks that I am here for a funeral, but it is still great to be back in the Bay Area…

Posted on May 3, 2017 by pouringmyartout

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I took a nap… remember, I got up at three this morning to get those sunrise photos in the last post… and went down to one of my favorite spots by the bay… yes, the one will all the dogs.

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I like that picture. If you look closely, you can see heat wave shimmers on the Transamerica building. Yes, it is that hot here.

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But, yet again, the fog was squeezing in to the mouth of the bay.

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So who knows what the weather will be like tomorrow.

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And would it really be San Francisco without the fog?

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I don’t think so.

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Of course I met some dogs… I petted all those dogs, and some more besides. Yes, there will be a few more photos of dogs in the next post. I am the guy who broke the record for most dogs petted in one day by a person not associated with a dog show, remember? You don’t? Well, that is what the search bar is for. Go ahead, we will wait. It is worth looking up the old post of that.

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Whoops… gotta go… the sunset from my mom’s deck is awesome!

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Some bad pictures of a good sunrise, that I took with my bad camera, in a bad way, and for a bad reason that has some good aspects to it…

Posted on May 3, 2017 by pouringmyartout

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Okay, so I left San Diego at 3:30 this morning, to beat the traffic in LA, and to maybe catch a sunrise for you… because I know you hate to get up that early. Yes, I took these while I was driving… which is bad… and I used my old camera, which takes bad photos in dim lighting. Also, the reason I was driving through the pass of the mountains to the North of LA as the sun came up is bad. I had to go visit my mom. No… that isn’t why it’s bad… shame on you.

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At my older daughter’s wedding just a few weeks ago, I joked with everyone… an old joke that I still love… that I liked wearing the suit for something other than funerals and court appearances. Well, since then, I have been to one funeral for a close relative of my wife’s… never mind who… and I am now sitting in my mom’s living room because there is another funeral I have to go to tomorrow. Yes, two since the wedding… and no… I don’t have any court dates coming up, as far as I know… yet.

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A neighbor that I have known my entire life has passed away. He fought in World War Two, and was a great guy.

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The good news is that I get to spend a few days with my mom… when she gets back from wherever the heck she is… She has quite a social life for someone creeping up on 100 years of age.

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Anyway, I need a shower and a nap. It is a beautiful day here in the Bay Area. Not a cloud in the sky, and about 80 degrees… oh yeah. I will have photos of any adventures I have, babies or dogs that I meet, friends that I see, and whatever else catches my fancy. Between that, I will do some of my regular, weird posts, work on the last few chapters of my newest novel, maybe do some watercolor painting, and other things.

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Oh, and as I was driving through the long, boring Central Valley, I saw this weird bar of smoke… or skinny dark cloud… or flock of birds… or… something. I really should have put the battery in the good camera and put it on the seat beside me like I usually do.

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My DNA results are in… it turns out I am from a long line of white people… go figure…

Posted on May 2, 2017 by pouringmyartout

As an adopted person, I have always been curious about my DNA. I am six feet four inches tall and have size 15 feet. Was I small for my family, or some sort of giant, mutant freak? I am all-art-side-of-the-brain. Is this something that runs in my bloodline? Don’t get me wrong, I love my adoptive family, and I have no complaints about my life, but now I know that my love of all things English is not just because my adoptive family has British roots. Maybe this explains why I felt so at home in England, and was so excited when we saw the Queen and the Royal Family.

So what, if anything, do all these strips of blue tell me about myself? Well, a lot of it was stuff I already knew. I don’t have a propensity for having a cleft chin, and I don’t. I probably shouldn’t have dimples, but I do.

The best news is that I have no genetic tendency towards Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease or a couple other genetic disorders that I can’t pronounce. I am also not a genetic carrier for some 40 plus other diseases and afflictions. Now my kids, when filling out medical forms, don’t have to guess… and also it means that anything wrong with my daughter’s is totally my wife’s fault. HA!

Oh, and I have a first cousin that I have never met… or even been aware of… and we are exchanging messages… so… uh… yeah. I may have a chance to shoot down my own theory that my parents were a high-priced Vegas hooker and a wandering European prince.

I am proud to be able to call myself mostly English and/or Irish, not only by inclination and indoctrination, but by genetics as well. We live in a crazy world of science and technology that can let us look inside ourselves at a molecular and cellular level. How cool is that?

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