April 6th, 2011

With all the goings on here over the past week, I only managed to take a handful of photos. It was just too busy, and as is unusual for me, I just didn’t think to pick up the camera. On a trip to the zoo, I remembered to bring it, but the battery was dead. Agh. Anyway, I eventually got my stuff together just in time to get a few pics before they left. Here’s my nephew at our favorite pho restaurant. I love the Betty Boop expression.
January 20th, 2011

This is my sweet three-year-old nephew watching Up on my laptop. There’s a scene in the movie where the main character, Carl Fredricksen, looks through a photo album of himself and his wife, Ellie. The last page of the album shows the two of them in their golden years, sitting together in their comfy chairs, and my nephew cooed, awww… So sensitive.
Later, as I was trying to show him how to pause the movie, I accidentally opened my email over top of it. Don’t change the channel! he said with a hint of panic. So funny.
The other morning as I was getting him ready for school, I cleared my throat and told him that I had a frog in it and then I couldn’t resist making frog noises. He looked at me quizzically and asked, Why are frogs in your body? On the way to his play school I could hear him back there in his car seat, clearing his throat and ribbit-ing. I know, I’m a bad influence!
I’m always amazed by him…all the nieces and nephews, actually. Such a fun and intelligent bunch. :o)
November 24th, 2010

Yet dismayed that I’m not a vegan. My Birkenstocks and freezer full of hamburger are proof that although I say I love them, I really mustn’t, otherwise I’d do what’s best for them instead of satisfying my carnivorous self. Caring, yet abusing…a strange disassociation, fostered by lifelong habit and lack of discipline. At times I’ve considered giving beef a break, but contemplating is all I’ve done, so is as good as doing nothing.
This pretty girl was standing in the neighbor’s pasture, the neighbor who recently purchased my parents’ property situated right next door. Maybe she smelled Lucy on my clothes because she came straight to me as I passed by. Or maybe she sensed the real me and wondered…why?
See a few other of my bovine pics here and here.
October 18th, 2010

Don’t ask why I found this interesting. It was lying behind our friend’s house, the same friend who gave us a look at the sun and Venus through his telescope a few weekends ago. Maybe it’s the leaves, although only a few have any color, or maybe it’s the old mattress frame with its curly bedsprings. It’s a pretty hectic scene.