Along the road of life

2010-02-19T17:03:00.001-05:00

It was one of those mornings where the

snow and the morning dew came together beautifully.

The sun was rising and there was a morning dew crossing the road.

My kindle book!

2010-02-03T19:44:00.002-05:00

Hey everyone! I just wanted to let everyone know if you have a kindle and you are a parent I wrote a short kids bedtime story. It's on Amazon.com under kindle books. It's called A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE! by me Vanessa Lee. So check it out and let me know if you like it. The illustrations are cute and the story is pretty relatable if you have kids. Thanks. V

morning rising

2009-11-07T17:04:00.002-05:00

full moon is out tonight

2009-11-07T17:01:00.001-05:00

enough said.

halloween time has come and gone.

2009-11-07T16:57:00.002-05:00

this year is flying past and my favorite time has come and gone.

Halloween!!!!!

We had a good year this year. Lots of fun for all.

these boots were made for walking and then some.

2009-11-07T16:54:00.002-05:00

one of my patients came in and I fell in love with his

cowboy boots. He was 5 years old and his mother says he wears them all the time.

I can tell this boy loves his boots.

to lotion or not to lotion

2009-10-11T16:30:00.003-04:00

When you have kids and they aren't making any noise...

that's when you worry what they are up to.

working hands

2009-10-11T16:22:00.003-04:00

These hands have character.

Orange

2009-10-11T16:13:00.002-04:00

riddle

2009-09-28T11:24:00.004-04:00

What kind of cap is one you cannot wear, but rather eat?

farm series

2009-09-08T19:08:00.007-04:00

Driving along the road back home
I snapped a few farms along the way.
These barns are images of
our American past. How life used to be
when we lived in a simpler time.
Modernization and incorporation came
and took away this lifestyle.
All that's left is the carcass of
how things used to be.

farmhouse

2009-08-30T16:10:00.002-04:00

It was a perfect day today. The clouds were thick like cotton candy and floated serenely by.

too cute

2009-08-30T16:08:00.004-04:00

So my little neighbor came by today and I asked her if she had put her own lipstick on today. What do you think her reply was?

driving home

2009-08-22T20:02:00.001-04:00

sometimes a long drive home can be boring if you keep your eyes on the road. Take a look around and you might just catch a glimpse of beauty.

my glass box

2009-07-29T19:44:00.002-04:00

What once used to be called the SEAR's Tower in chicago is now called the Willis tower. These glass boxes hang out over the edge of the tall tower. What a view.

farm along the road

2009-07-29T19:41:00.001-04:00

Driving home from vacation the day was beautiful with clouds towering above the scenery.

zip lining away

2009-06-21T14:29:00.003-04:00

for my 12th anniversary I took my husband zip lining! We had fun and will definitely return with the kids!!!

2009-04-28T08:32:00.001-04:00

We went to Vegas this past weekend and I just wander
around the hotels and look at all the creative ideas the decorators
came up with for catching your eye.

this toad in the road

2009-04-17T20:50:00.002-04:00

a generation apart

2009-04-10T20:16:00.001-04:00

As I walk with you hand in hand,
I am reminded of how small you are.
Your hand fits entirely in mine and your steps are
3 to my 1.
We are a generation apart and yet you
are a part of me and I am a part of you
now and forever we will be.

gnarled

2009-04-10T19:53:00.003-04:00

I was walking past this tree and thought the trunk was beautiful.
The way the trunks weave in and out of one another and the colors go well together. The green with purple with orange.

2009-03-26T19:42:00.001-04:00

Along a pond, the green algae grows.
Spring is near as winter slows.
I inhale the fresh air
as my husband mows.

along this road

2009-03-18T20:05:00.002-04:00

Another shot taken yesterday. As the sun was setting I liked the look of the trees in silhouette.
Now that spring is coming there will be a lot to take pictures of.

hazy day

2009-03-12T20:20:00.001-04:00

The sun was a bit weird looking the other day.
It was one of those days where you could actually stare at the sun and
not burn out your retinas.

sunset in indiana

2009-03-12T20:17:00.003-04:00

I am a bad driver because when I see something I think will make a good shot I get my camera out and snap off a few shots. Took this the other day going home from work.

2009-03-01T17:43:00.002-05:00

Rob and I went to see Slumdog millionaire.

I'm not sure I see why it got so many oscars, but it was a good story.

I think why so many people loved the movie is because it really shows you what it's like for a kid living in the slums of india to survive.

We lived in several countries when I was a kid. Jamaica and Peru, south america.

The kind of poverty you see in the movie slumdog millionaire is the kind of poverty I saw on a daily basis in both these countries I lived in. When people in america think that the 'ghetto' is being poor they don't know what being 'poor' really means until they see a third world country.

Poor in America means you don't have air conditioning in your house, being poor in a 3rd world country means you have no electricity in your house. Being poor in america means your front door bell doesn't work because it broke years ago and you can't fix it, being poor in a 3rd world country means you have no front door. A homeless person in America can find 3 square meals a day at many of the soup kitchens around town. A homeless person in a 3rd world country may not eat for a week. A person begging for money on the street of America usually just spends it on alcohol or drugs. A person begging for money in a 3rd world country spends his money on food. That's a big difference. We need to realize just how lucky we are in life and that we want for nothing.

2009-03-01T17:42:00.002-05:00

confessions of a shopaholic.

it was so bad it doesn't warrant my time to review.

Why does it make me so mad?

2009-02-14T08:46:00.003-05:00

I'm sure by now everyone has heard of that crazy woman who just had 8 babies by in vitro fertilization. This story makes me so mad.

1. the woman has no job- how did she pay for the 7 in vitro fertilizations?

answer: She defrauded the government out of $165,000 claiming to have gotten a debilitating back injury which she suffered while working at a psychiatric hospital. Working at the hospital? It was more like she was a patient there. If this back injury was so debilitating how was she able to carry 7 pregnancies especially the multiple birth ones?

2. The woman lives with her mother in a 3 bedroom house.

14 kids + 2 adults divided by 3 bedrooms = 5 people to each bedroom.

3. She says she doesn't receive government aid.

answer: She receives food stamps and monthly stipends for her 2 autistic children.

What does she think food stamps are? Who is paying for her 2 autistic children to go to special schools? We, the tax payers, are!

4. She says she's going to go back to school to get her masters to support her kids.

When is she going to have time to do this great feat? Who will watch her kids while she's at school and then who will watch them while she's studying for her masters? How much money could she possiblly make that would allow her to support 14 kids?

5. What F*cked up doctor thought this was a good idea to artificially inseminate a woman who has no job, no means of support and already has 6 kids at home and supposedly a debilitating back injury? This doctor should have to pay for these babies since he didn't care to look into the fact that this woman wasn't all there mentally. So he should have to take care of them until they are 18 years old.

6. The government should investigate the money she received for this supposed back injury that she suffered, because I can tell you right now there is no way she has a back in jury and was able to have 7 pregnancies.

7. Has anyone seen that she is basking in the glory of the media attention? She's obviously had her lips plumped and her nose done and she looks botoxed out of her mind.

The woman is a whack job and should have her kids taken away from her.

8. she claims her whole life is dedicated to her kids. She says she holds each octuplet for 45 mins. every day. 45 x 8= 6 hours a day she's at the hospital holding her babies. What are the other 6 kids at home doing? I feel sorry for the grandmother in all of this because she's the one it sounds like that is taking care of this woman's children.

The media and sponsors should show this woman what she did is not ok and not persue her for interviews or sponsorships. She doesn't deserve to get paid for what she is going to make all the tax payers pay. The hospital bill alone for the 8 babies is going to be over 2 million dollars. I do believe that there has been enough public protest to this woman that potential sponsors are not going to use her for ads or shows.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-

her story reminds me of another story I heard about a guy who was on government support for years. Didn't work and took his check from the government month after month. Well the money he got monthly he would waste on lottery tickets. Well one of the lottery tickets paid off and he became a millionaire. Whose money is that really? The money he used to buy the ticket was from his government check. When asked if he was going to pay back the money he took from government support he said, " NO!"

People like this are assholes to society! They are leeches! Government needs to do a shake up of it's handouts. I'm tired of these people on government welfare who have this attitude that they deserve it. I had a patient who is on medicaid, 16 years old, and her mom waited for her in the waiting room. We did 6 cavities on her that day and it did take a long time- 2 hours to do them all. The mother was such a bitch saying how she's getting tired of waiting! Started getting all upitty and snotty. I was about to tell the woman to shut her mouth and sit her ass down and wait since she's not paying for a damn thing! the government was! Where do these people get off having any sort of attitude about their treatment when they aren't even paying for it? If she thought it was taking long then she should have come up front and asked how long it was going to take and if she didn't want to wait that long she should have left and come back when her daughter was done. Easy to solve that one!

fountain

2009-01-31T14:49:00.001-05:00

sunset in the distance, light leaves behind.
Slowly the dark creeps up and blinds everything.

2009-01-31T14:48:00.000-05:00

I think of silver when I look at this picture.

puffs

2009-01-31T14:45:00.001-05:00

geometry

2009-01-25T13:49:00.003-05:00

Geometry of the sky.
Overcast days make everything gloomy. Sometimes it's
hard to find a subject that catches my interest.
This wrought iron gazebo made for an
interesting forefront to the winter sky above.

Benjamin button

2009-01-24T21:39:00.003-05:00

I sat through the 3-hour long movie called,

" The curious case of benjamin button".

Ok so it was a nice movie, good story line, but I wouldn't say oscar worthy performances.

I give this movie an 'OK' rating.

look what I saw this morning

2009-01-21T08:25:00.003-05:00

Every morning I wake up and come downstairs I
pass by a window on the way down the stairs. Usually I can tell by
what I see out this window if there is a beautiful sky out or not. When I see
it's going to be a good one, I run outside with my camera and snap off a few shots.
I can't believe how fast the scenery changed in the few minutes I'm out there.
The sky went from a deep orange like you see on the bottom shot to a light pink like you
see in the upper shots. This all happened in a matter of 3-4 mins.

sunsets

2009-01-20T18:53:00.002-05:00

This sunset caught my eye since it had
a large ray that went straight up to the sky.
Sometimes when you see something in nature and you take a photo of it
it doesn't quite catch how amazing it really is. I had to take this
shot while driving and trying to avoid cars getting in the shot and
telephone poles.

2009-01-18T12:43:00.002-05:00

We went to see Gran Torino last night.

It was rather excellent if I do say so myself.

It kept us entertained for the entire movie and got

good belly laughs throughout.

So this movie isn't for the person who

doesn't like to hear racial slurs because there are tons of them

in this movie. So if you can overlook the racial slur part then

sit down and enjoy.

Clint Eastwood got his character down pat. He came off

as a believeable old fart that was stuck in his ways.

The story line itself has been done in movie after movie,

but what made this one stand out is the great one liners he has.

Whoever wrote the movie did a great job with the lines.

rating: :O) 2 smiles from these viewers

World's biggest mullet on youngest kid!

2009-01-10T21:24:00.003-05:00

We were at the mall tonight and we saw
the world's largest mullet, and it was on the youngest kid
who was about 4 years old. They must have been growing this one since his birth!
Business in the front, party in the back!

winter skies

2008-12-30T08:27:00.003-05:00

it never fails to catch my eye
the amazing skies the burn so
bright.
exploding across the horizon
in a shower of golds, yellows and
whites.

warped sense of humor?

2008-12-26T08:28:00.003-05:00

So every year I come up with an invitation to our lake house
to celebrate the 4th of july. Swimming, grilling and just having fun.
I found this image on the internet that I thought was funny.
My husband was horrified! He forbid me to send them out.
What's so wrong with it? I thought it was hilarious.
Chime in and let me know, is it me? Do I have some
warped sense of humor? And no the guy in the photo
isn't my husband.

skyline in dec.

2008-12-10T18:33:00.001-05:00

this was waiting for me on my way home from work.
The dark was chasing away the sun.

MR. personality!

2008-12-08T20:00:00.003-05:00

He just learned to scrunch his face when having a his photo taken.
How cute.

Oh christmas tree, Oh christmas tree!

2008-12-08T19:54:00.003-05:00

It's that time of year again. I'll tell you how times have changed!
When I was a kid I would shake the present to figure out what it was. Or maybe a small rip might occur on the corner of the present, totally by accident ;O) to perhaps show a bit of the box underneath so I could figure out what the toy was. Now a days, do you know what my kids do?
They rifle through my purse to find the store receipts and see what was rung up on the receipt!!!! Those smart, little buggers!

2008-12-03T10:11:00.002-05:00

I saw Australia last monday night.

It was good. Nothing to crow about.

But I've always been a fan of hugh jackman.

You can easily see why.

The movie was a typical, rough neck, man

woos cultured, uptight aristrocratic woman

to become a better person and they live happily ever after.

163 mins long sure makes for a sore butt.

sour puss

2008-11-30T15:26:00.001-05:00

This is a classic thing to do with little babies.

give them an orange for the first time and photograph their

expression. Well we did just that. Can you say

sour puss!?

snow days are here

2008-11-30T15:22:00.003-05:00

The first snow of the year!

The boys spent about 2 hours outside

freezing their little butts off.

eyes are the window to the soul

2008-11-28T10:52:00.003-05:00

I've always told my son he
has the most beautiful eyes.
He usually ends up smirking and saying, " Yeah right!"
One day he'll believe me.

gobble gobble

2008-11-28T10:48:00.002-05:00

So another thanksgiving has come and gone.
What changed this year?
My mom wasn't here to cook us
a mouth watering dinner so
I undertook the endeavor
and here's how it turned out.
I cooked the turkey for 4.5 hours at 325.
I placed an onion and lemons and a stick of butter
inside the cavity and put the whole thing in an oven
bag to cook. It turned out fine...maybe a tad dry
which after the fact I forgot someone
told me to put the turkey in the bag breast side down so the
meat would be moist and dripping. DARN! So maybe next year I will
not forget that very last important detail.

Just so wrong!

2008-11-24T21:45:00.005-05:00

So I just saw Twilight.

I've read all the books

and I can say this with

all certainty...

This movie sucked!

The actors they cast to play the parts of the

Cullens were so WRONG in so

many ways!

Let's start with the fact that in the book the vampire characters had pale, white skin...in the movie to acomplish this trait they painted the actors faces with white pancake makeup that was so obvious they looked like clowns half the time and the makeup stopped halfway around their neck and not below their shirt collar. It seems at some point in the movie the director noticed how stupid it looked so they stopped putting the white make up on the actors, but didn't go back to re-shoot the original scenes where they did have the clownish makeup on.

The main characters, bella and edward

had no sexual spark what so ever. I do think who they cast for bella was a good cast for looks, but not for the quality of acting. The actor they cast for edward, good fit for looks, but dude you need to wash your hair. They were trying to play that 'teenage angst'

and it failed so miserably. The acting was very amateurish and stiff they spoke lines like they were reading off of cue cards. The director did a horrible job of conveying the secrecy around the vampire family and their closeness, it also seems the director just wanted to finish the movie because it was taking too long so she hurried some of the scenes. Who cast the actor for 'Rosalie'? In the book she's supposed to be so stunning that it takes people's breath away. The woman they had cast for her part had a bad dye job who wore a lot of spandex and had the biggest butt I have ever seen on an actress in hollywood.

Why oh why couldn't they have asked me for

my expertise and knowledge on this

subject? Oh well, not every

movie is destined to be nominated for an oscar. Your loss

twilight.

the nose knows...

2008-11-24T11:12:00.003-05:00

I just saw the movie 'penelope' last night
and I came across a realization...
they could have had
victoria beckham play the
role christina ricci did without
having to do the artificial nose...that would have
saved them a ton of money.
Just saying.
I did like the movie-quirky.

another day goes away

2008-11-22T20:11:00.003-05:00

Another day
goes away.
As I've said winter
brings some amazing
skies.
I wait for the next day to see what
nature has created for me.

entropy

2008-11-22T12:29:00.004-05:00

en·tro·py (ntr-p)

n. pl. en·tro·pies

1. The tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity.

2. Inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society.

second empire

2008-11-22T09:27:00.002-05:00

I don't know how many people
know the type of
architecture of this house.
You may call it the
'munster house'
from that tv show the munsters.
But the name is 'second empire' and I like the roof lines on these
types of houses. The sunrise behind the house looked really nice.

arch form

2008-11-22T09:24:00.003-05:00

This shot was taken
through a gazebo that is in
our neighborhood.
I thought the arch was a nice forefront
with the color of the sky in the background.

signs

2008-11-22T09:20:00.003-05:00

The sunrise this morning was amazing!
The sky lit up with fantastic colors and
shot across the horizon. I'm not a winter person
but I guess this makes up for the cold of
winter.

sky

2008-11-21T15:27:00.001-05:00

just playing around with

some photos.

I liked the clouds in the sky today

so I took a shot of it.

life long renovation

2008-11-20T13:24:00.005-05:00

Does the thought,
" hey y'all!
You might be a red neck if..."
come to mind when looking at this picture?
Ok so everyday I drive by this house

they have been renovating it for the last 10years!

The siding started to get put on and then got halfway and then stopped.

The roof had a blue tarp on it for years, and now finally they actually roofed the whole thing!

Now the scoffolding has been rusting away for the last 10 years. Every time I see this house

I say I am going to round up a gang of people to go to this guy's house

and finish the work they started 10 years ago.

sky on fire

2008-11-18T19:32:00.002-05:00

I love these shots.
The color of the sky was
that of fire.
I tweak these shots by
adding reflections of the horizon
to mimic a lake in front of the shot.

the farm

2008-11-18T19:27:00.004-05:00

It was One of those days.
The clouds sailing by
the blue of the sky.
There's this barn on the way
to work that always stands
out in my sight.
The condition
of the wood seems like it will
fall over with the slightest wind.
But yet it stands
over the years.

what a find!

2008-11-17T14:30:00.005-05:00

Ok so I was shopping today

and I just love it when I come

across a great find!

But today was not one of those days.

I came across these
lovely pair of pants!
OH MY GOD!
Who would buy these horrendous
things?
And did someone actually
in the fashion world
think that corduroy and
polka dots go together?
sometimes I lose all
faith in the fashion world!

PETA and the starlette

2008-11-16T14:01:00.005-05:00

ok so I guess a few nights ago in france,

lindsay lohan was going into a club and

she got doused in flour by a woman

who was a supporter of PETA,

because lindsay was wearing a fur stole.

So the next day lindsay's girlfriend wrote on her

blog that the woman who doused lindsay

was lower than an animal for dousing her with flour

and that if it weren't for movie stars wearing fur

then PETA wouldn't have anything to protest against.

Am I wrong in thinking that lindsay's girlfriend is a total...

MORON:

A stupid person; a dolt.
Psychology. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.

In her posting she also states how she has a dog

and her dog is more human than this woman was

for doing what she did.

Ok so how about we take your

dog and stick it in a cage with

500 other dogs and then starve them

and then take the dog and strangle it with a wire

and then cut its fur and use it for a nice pair of gloves!

2008-11-14T19:09:00.002-05:00

Fog envelops
cool and wet
my fingers can
almost wrap around
and grab a hold of it.
The deep wetness
fills my lungs and
I expel it's mists out
my mouth.
I can taste it's
flavor
deep of
wood and
earth as
I sigh.

shadows

2008-11-14T18:59:00.002-05:00

My shadow
and my son's.
What part is me
and what part is he?
We are of each other
as we will always be
a son and a mother.

2008-11-13T18:55:00.002-05:00

Days go by
and the sun sets
too soon.
The wind start to blow
and the clouds
float by.
Each breath I take
chills
my lungs
as winter comes.

Road

2008-11-13T18:50:00.002-05:00

Along this lonely road
I drive.
memories I find
come to me
and wander through my mind.
my eyes drift and I wonder

Where the road
has taken me.

King Wrong

2008-11-13T18:47:00.004-05:00

If king kong
was a grasshopper,
this would be the final scene where
kong climbs to
the top of the
empire state building.

It's witching hour!!!

2008-10-31T06:57:00.001-04:00

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!!

a lymerick for all you halloweenies!

2008-10-31T06:54:00.002-04:00

There once was a zombie who was dead.

Late one night he woke me from my bed

He came to my door

but I was so poor

I gave him last years candy instead!

clock tower

2008-10-27T16:27:00.004-04:00

a storm is coming
the wind blows this way.
the skies are turbulent,
churn and sway.
A drop is felt
and more come falling
crashing to the ground
winter is calling.

close to heaven

2008-10-27T16:08:00.003-04:00

like I said...
I have a thing for clouds right now.
The sky here is on fire
as fall turns to winter.
the cold fronts can really
cause some great cloud formations.

windows

2008-10-26T16:21:00.004-04:00

The clouds sail
past my window.
Slowly drifting by
my eye.
Images come forth
to my mind
of days
gone by
laying against
the ground
thinking of what
the shape might be.
A dog.
A rabbit.
A heart.
What do you see?

fall day in the midwest

2008-10-26T10:47:00.003-04:00

What represents
the midwest
the best?
Corn.

cell towers can be beautiful

2008-10-26T10:43:00.002-04:00

Can a cell tower be beautiful?
A hulking metal structure
in the middle of a field.
Clear cut trees to
place this man made
metal tree.
I guess it can be
beautiful when
the conditions
are right.

reflections

2008-10-25T14:44:00.004-04:00

reflections
of life
mirrored in
my lens and
in my imagination.

2008-10-22T21:19:00.002-04:00

could this wood
if stood
stand?
If my hand
touches the wood
would
it feel
the bark peel?
I leave it there to lay
to eventually decay
away.

Bugs eeewwww!

2008-10-20T17:12:00.003-04:00

So this little guy
was hanging out on my window sill today.
It got me thinking
what is his purpose in
life?
What I mean is
why are there insects in the world?
Scientists say they help
pollinate plants or they become
food for larger animals.
But why? Why did insects
have to be created to pollinate
plants? Why can't a plant be created that
can pollinate itself or others?
Why create an animal that exists on a diet of insects?
it just seems redundant.
There's an aphid which is a small insect that feeds
on plants, so a ladybug eats the aphid for food,
so a bird eats the ladybug for food, so a cat eats a bird for food.
On and on it goes. Why even have this chain of food?

A haunting we will go!

2008-10-20T17:02:00.006-04:00

I have been collecting these halloween
houses for a few years now
and it never ceases to amaze me
the detail and imagination
they come up with every year!
My kids love watching these houses
light up and scream.
One neighbor kid actually thought
there was a witch living in one
of the small houses!

salt by any other name

2008-10-18T22:26:00.002-04:00

Salt, by any other name,
would taste as bitter sweet?
I always wonder who
the first person to ever try salt was.
Did he/she see this white substance
on the ground and think,
"hmmm, I think I'll try this white,powdery
stuff on some food."?
I wonder if the same happened with arsenic?

NEON

2008-10-18T22:23:00.004-04:00

What is it
about neon signs
that make you stare
at the glowing,
buzzing light?
To me
it looks like a mad
scientist's lab.
All those coils and electrodes.
The buzzing and the heat.

Is this God's playground?

2008-10-17T16:32:00.002-04:00

On a perfect day in summer.
The world was so bright.
The clouds drifted by with a laziness
and the heat was light.
The blue of the sky
catches your eye.
The kids are
running,
and miss how the day is stunning.

the sound of water...

2008-10-17T16:21:00.003-04:00

In Tennessee there is a cave known as Ruby falls.
The person who discovered it
found the opening, while digging a shaft into the mountain.
The opening was
only 18 inches tall.

18 INCHES!!!! Go get a ruler and see how small that really is!
He decided to crawl into that opening
and see what was in there. It was pitch black with nothing but a small light.
He crawled on his stomach for 8 hours until he found the cavern
where there was a waterfall in the middle of the mountain. How many of us would have the
strength to do what this man did back in 1928?After another 8 hours

he found his way back out.
An interesting fact is that down that deep in the mountain
there are no insects and the temperature is always
a cool 60 degrees.

The cut.

2008-10-17T15:53:00.005-04:00

The corn stands
for another day.
Until the combine comes
to cut it away.
The end of a year passes
until we see the green grasses.
Life begins to decay
as the day gives way.

lamp post in contrast

2008-10-15T18:27:00.002-04:00

A photo from this morning. I think I have a fixation on the sky right now. The color of the sky combined with the shape of the clouds...dreamy.

curious minds

2008-10-14T20:23:00.003-04:00

Little hands that hold little things.
Little minds that hold big things.
These little hands caught a little thing
and this little mind thought big things.
That little thing jumped away
and the little hand missed his little thing all day.

scratch and sniff

2008-10-14T20:21:00.003-04:00

it's almost like you could scratch and sniff this flower.

reeds

2008-10-14T20:18:00.001-04:00

just a photo I took this morning. The sky has been incredible these past few weeks. That's what I like about fall.

2008-10-13T20:13:00.002-04:00

A fence is a freestanding structure designed to restrict or prevent movement across a boundary. It is generally distinguished from a wall by the lightness of its construction: a wall is usually restricted to such barriers made from solid brick or concrete, blocking vision as well as passage (though the definitions overlap somewhat).
It seems the world is obsessed with building things that restrict people. We need to build 'openings' in life. Do you remember when Germany tore down the Berlin wall? What a monumental moment in life! We need more times in history like that!

widow's walk

2008-10-12T08:46:00.001-04:00

A widow's walk is an architectural design on a house that was originally used for women who went on top of the house to look out over the sea in hopes that their mariner husband was returning by ship. I happened to look out this morning and saw a crane having a nice view from above.

It was one of those days...

2008-10-11T18:07:00.000-04:00

It was one of those days when the sky was perfect. Just the right amount of blue, just the right amount of white. The texture of the clouds was unusual which is what caught my eye to begin with. The air was crisp, not a hint of wetness to the heat.

Smell my feet!

2008-10-11T07:54:00.001-04:00

Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat!!!! Halloween is almost upon us! This is my favorite holiday of all. Throw your inhibitions to the wind and let fly your imagination. Ghouls and goblins, gremlins and ghosts. Come out, come out

you don't...you can

2008-10-11T07:12:00.000-04:00

so we spent a few days in the great smokey mountains in Tennessee. I fogot why they are called the smokey mountains until I saw it for myself. Every morning I would wake up right before the sun came up and take a few shots. At that time the world isn't fully in motion. You can hear everything and at the same time nothing. You don't hear cars driving by, you don't see airplanes up in the sky, you don't hear delivery trucks going up and down the streets, there are no tvs blaring or people talking. It's just... quite. How many have ever experienced 'true quiet'? The call of a bird and the return call of it's mate. You can hear the sound of the wind in the trees. You can hear the stream near by, the water rolling down the hill. A far off dog barking.

fields of mist

2008-10-10T17:17:00.001-04:00

I love those mornings when there is a mist covering the land. What does it make you think of when you see this? I think the land has secrets. I think of the people who have come and gone over the land and what may be left behind underneath the land.

torment

2008-10-10T16:33:00.001-04:00

This is a photo that was taken of my son messing around on the imac...to me the photo captured a deep emotion...'Torment'

driving down the road

2008-10-10T15:19:00.000-04:00

I was driving to work one morning and do you know how your brain just kicks into automatic mode where you get in your car in the garage and the next thing you know you are at work and you don't remember how you got there? Obviously you drove, but you don't remember stopping at any lights or turning any corners, or driving through traffic, etc? Well it was one of those automatic mornings I was almost to work when I started to realize that I was missing a lot of beauty on the way to work. I carry a small digital camera with me and take photos from time to time of things I find intersting or weird or just funny. Thought I would share what I caught with you. Lesson learned...sometimes you need to stop and look out the window because you might miss something spectacular on the road of life.

Along the road of life...my life.

2008-10-10T15:15:00.001-04:00

Hi just thought I would add my two cents worth of opinions/thoughts/ideas to the world. Read at your own speed. Hope you like some of what you see here, if not, check back later and maybe then you will find something that interests you.