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☆ June 2, 2010
Sometimes I don’t have a camera & I just try to memorize the moment:
Pulling into the driveway and seeing Daisy standing over Frisco, Frisco lying in the grass suckling her teat. Drinking from Daisy whilst lying down. Yeesh.
Charlie going absolutely nuts for the fringe surrounding a hole in the knee of Mike’s jeans. Obsessive nibbling. It looked like it tickled.
Frisco falling asleep with his head on my chest (drooling on my shirt, even) as I lay against his chest. If Escher did farm scenes, this would be it.
The smell of marjoram.
What didn’t you take a picture of today?
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June 2nd, 2010 @ 5:32 pm
mountain wildflowers in the yard….
June 2nd, 2010 @ 5:36 pm
The red, red sunrise. The fawn in my front yard. The fish in the pond, ready for their dinner. The steam rising from my own dinner.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 5:36 pm
My American bulldog Leroy, laying on the step in the dining/living room, patiently waiting for his dinner (he gets his when mine is ready.) He’s a love.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 5:37 pm
sleepy cats (I love watching them sleep); hungry birds at the bird feeder
June 2nd, 2010 @ 5:43 pm
Brand new baby Pronghorn triplets on the oh so green Wyoming prairie
June 2nd, 2010 @ 5:47 pm
Cooper’s hawk dunking its head in the backyard fountain.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 5:51 pm
My orange tabby Bob (for Big Orange Blob) sleeping on the bed, slowwwwly sliding off head first! He’s an Eli twin!
June 2nd, 2010 @ 5:51 pm
Today as I watched one of my cats sleeping, I thought she epitomized the concept of “luxuriating”.
Also did some people-watching in downtown Toronto today. The sight of a tall, young man carrying his small child melted my heart.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 5:54 pm
The fog rolling over Carmel Hills like a slow-moving tsunami wave.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 5:55 pm
The daisy that I noticed growing up from a crack in the middle of a busy city street this morning.
Nature has a way of reminding us that she will always be, long after all we have created is dust.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 5:56 pm
My baby parrot, asleep on a perch on my bedside table, who was not ready to wake up at the crack of dawn when my alarm went off. While balancing on one foot (the other tucked up in his downy underfeathers, staying warm), he kept his little head tucked under a wing to saw off a few more Z’s – all as I quietly sneak around the room getting dressed and ready for work without turning on the overhead lights to avoid disturbing him. How my heart swells with love for that fluffy ball of feathers every morning!!!!
June 2nd, 2010 @ 5:59 pm
My dog stopping during our walk to roll in the wet weeds, then just stay there and sniff his surrounding…upside down.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:00 pm
A cute red fox in the park, in the middle of the city-we watched as he curiously ambled around the edges of the woods and seemed totally oblivious to me and my dog; pennies from heaven-23 pennies lying on the grocery store parking lot. I wished I had my camera in both cases – to catch the seldom seen fox and the randomness of the pennies. (yes i picked them all up)
June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:01 pm
Driving in the Baja desert, air so clear, seeing a Caracara on top of a big cardon cactus.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:05 pm
The partly decomposed porcupine stuck in one of our gated irrigation pipes with only the quills sticking out of a gate – and on a better note – the snow covered Wind River mts. above our GREEN hay field….too busy setting pipe to take pictures :((
June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:06 pm
… my dog Princess practically flying into her little kiddie pool after an oh so hot walk … and my 7 month old daughter laughing and giggling while she smeared her food all over me.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:19 pm
I’m afraid I was too wrapped up in stress to see any pictures I couldn’t take… going to have to keep my eyes more open if I can.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:24 pm
the slough off the freeway, misted in fog & rain, with a white heron taking off from the water’s edge over the old, moss-covered fence . . .
oh – and my lunch! teriyaki salmon over rice w/ sunomono & fruit – first full meal in over a week & man, was it good!!
June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:29 pm
With your words, we don’t need a picture! (But they sure are nice to have)…and I guess all we’ll EVER get is a pic of Mike’s legs or butt! LOL.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Sitting in the backyard with my husband, eating the panini he made us for lunch. I don’t seem to have any pictures of us together.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:35 pm
The dreamy look in my horse’s eyes as he was getting his massage today.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:40 pm
…the beautiful green backdrop of trees and marshy green grasses behind the lovely smooth blue lake…with the sky painted in a beautiful blue above. Although I had a camera with me at the time, I was passing over a long bridge with no place to pull over. It was a beautiful scene meant only for the eyes and the heart.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:47 pm
The sunset! live in Florida so they always seem to draw me in!!
June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:51 pm
My yellow lab sunbathing on the back porch this morning.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 7:01 pm
Funny you should ask. Just after reading this blog, and me, looking out my window and wondering what I could share today that was picture-worthy .. RIGHT NOW, there is a red-tailed hawk sitting on my fence. I’ve seen it there before .. soooo majestic looking. He/she doesn’t seem to have a care in the world!
June 2nd, 2010 @ 7:06 pm
Cloud to lake lightning – it was AMAZING…. and the Big Rain drops on the windshield. I love spring storms as long as the tornado, flooding and hail stay at bay.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 7:31 pm
There is a pretty strict code of camera etiquette when it comes to the casual taking of random people’s pictures while in Haiti. It is not allowed to take pictures out a car window, and if you do find a subject you wish to photograph, you must ask permission (most times it is NOT granted). So my most favorite photos have been the ones I could not take. My favorite example: While stuck in traffic in Port Au Prince last year, an old woman walked by my car window. On her head was a large straw hat, attached to, and circling the top brim, were live roosters. Their heads were at the edge of the brim, their tails in the air. She was bringing them to market, and oh how I wanted that picture. But it is always with me, at the ready anytime I want to see it. :-)
June 2nd, 2010 @ 7:32 pm
Watching a chipmunk collect the straw from one of my doggie yards…..so cute….he had a little bale of hay and than scooted away to build a nest.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 7:33 pm
about a dozen horses in the pasture, tails parallel to the ground, like banners in the wind.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 7:49 pm
The turkey somewhat nervously strolling by my cat Seamus and I as we stood together in the backyard. Her even more nervous sister decided to remain in the woods. Wild turkeys are quite beautiful.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 7:53 pm
As much as I enjoy your photographs, this post and the ensuing comments were more vivid than any camera could have managed. What I call “pictures of the heart.”
June 2nd, 2010 @ 8:01 pm
My husky/terrier mix having a stand off in the living room with my foster beagle. Three solid minutes of staring at each other without moving before the beagle took off running and the terrier gave chase. I so wanted to grab the camera but knew the minute I moved they’d move too.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 8:02 pm
HAD TO PUT MY CAR PRACTICALLY SIDEWAYS ACROSS A 2 LANE BUSY BUSY ROAD AND HAD TO STAND IN THE OTHER 2 LANE ROAD GOING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION SO THAT A MOTHER GOOSE AND HER 11 GOSELINGS COULD MAKE IT ACROSS SAFELY FROM 1 LAKE TO ANOTHER! EVEN WITH ALL THE STRESS OF TRYING TO STOP THE SPEEDING CARS & IGNORING THE SNARLING DRIVERS, I COULD ENJOY WATCHING THAT LONG STRAIGHT LINE OF BEAUTIFUL BABIES FOLLOWING THEIR MOM.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 8:02 pm
The streetlight through the rain during the storm tonight.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 8:10 pm
a passion flower on her vine that I thought for all the world yesterday was dead~ the smell of tomato plants and rosemary on my hands, which beats the chicken poopy smell that got under my finger nail whilst collecting eggs!( I washed up before typeing! really….)
June 2nd, 2010 @ 8:16 pm
A deer drinking out of the bird bath in the front yard
June 2nd, 2010 @ 8:21 pm
Fog lying low in the valley – cows munching sweet NH grass with the sun rising – raven swooping down! NH morning.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 8:31 pm
97 tomato seedlings, which i separated and packed for the lucky people who are taking my babies from me tomorrow. still have something like 400 to go!
…anyone in Baltimore want some tomato plants?
June 2nd, 2010 @ 8:52 pm
the muscles in my husband’s shoulders as he pushed his wheelchair down the hallway at the VA; two little kitty faces tilted identically a bit to their right as they watched the door open and my husband and I come home after a long day away, one on the floor, one on the end table, both within a couple feet of the door; fog rolling in off the ocean.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 9:26 pm
A photo for memory of my two Fallow Deer, the only two left, elderly now and missing their sister and mom, actually lying side by side for the first time, chewing their cuds, finally friends, after fearing each other so long….the sun in the clouds new green grass and the velvet of their antlers all make it a soft day to remember.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 9:37 pm
A black man, a stranger, walking into the foyer of a hotel, an average american chain hotel, with a swagger, a twinkle in his eye and looking for the graduation celebration. Oh, and he was wearing a double-breasted suit jacket in a large and loud plaid (like plaid under a microscope) that was cut nearly to his knees.
The outfit was ridiculous, but he wasn’t ridiculous. He made me smile. And wish that I could have taken a picture because I wasn’t sure I could ever adequately describe him or the moment. But even if I had a camera in my hand, I wouldn’t have taken the shot.
And I never would have shared that with anyone if you hadn’t asked what I didn’t take a picture of today. Thanks for asking the question.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 9:46 pm
the dew on the morning grass
June 2nd, 2010 @ 9:49 pm
Awh! Everyone’s pictures are romantic, poetic and artistic. I took a photo of a little dog running loose in the street. He seemed scared and definitely someone’s pet (a neighbor called the police and we caught the little guy as his frantic owner arrived. All is well).
June 2nd, 2010 @ 10:14 pm
walking my forest trails in the rain with my border collies. everything bursting with luscious life — just breating it in in gratitude.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 10:14 pm
My giant oak trees on my way to work have finally finished getting their leaves in..they are huge! and beautiful and a reminder of how amazing life on this earth is
June 2nd, 2010 @ 10:37 pm
My daughter and I moving cattle down the highway… peaceful because we know our jobs… no need to talk, just the clop of the horses hooves, the ripping of grass from the pavement’s edge, and the occasional low woof from my dog as she encouraged the heifers’ movement. Had my camera in my pocket as usual, but actually passed on this moment.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 11:05 pm
My best friend playing his guitar. He gets so lost in his music, nothing else in the world exists. It’s one of my most favourite moments to witness.
June 2nd, 2010 @ 11:36 pm
This morning: the ladybird beetles on the wintergreen clump behind my duplex; their lacquered red-orange gleaming against the deep green of the mint leaves.
This afternoon: the redtailed hawk spiraling against the wind above the pale gold grass on Cerro San Luis. I could almost hear his feathers ruffling in the breeze.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 12:38 am
My almost 2 yr old son as we took a walk today…red shorts and his favorite elephant tshirt and boots that he insisted on wearing, bright curious eyes, blond curls moving gently on the breeze, stick in hand as he jumped, stopped, strolled, wandering into yards to explore each flower, lawn ornament, or ant he could find…
Those tiny bright green seedlings-carrots, beets, spinach, lettuce, beans, corn, cucumber-as I had to sort and thin them…heartbreakingly pulling them from the soil (but saving the spinach/lettuce for a yummy salad), dirty hands, dirty feet, hot sun, smell of straw and partially composted grass as I spread mulch to keep down weeds, birds chirping, the bluest skies above….
June 3rd, 2010 @ 4:58 am
The yearling fawns looking at me, as if to say, “hello, we’re here, where’s the food.”
June 3rd, 2010 @ 6:01 am
…☼ The evening shadows building along the river, the Amigos staging for their evening try at crossing the Line …(some will, some won’t make it) always another day ☼…
June 3rd, 2010 @ 6:31 am
The hummingbirds that were drinking from the blooming coral bells in my yard. My cat sleeping on his back with one paw covering his eyes while he was having some kind of vivid dream (his back legs were moving)!
June 3rd, 2010 @ 6:50 am
Yesterday.. the cool clear water at the Huntington Gorge, the black coals and burnt beer cans of a late night swim party.. a fluffy black cat sitting on a old gym bag on someone’s porch looking at us from beneath thick eye whiskers, with barely perceptible acknowledgement as we greeted her and worshipped her aloof felinity.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 7:03 am
My shepherd, awakened by my not so careful steps at 2am, squinting one eyed and thumping her tail against the floor. Silent happy greeting.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 7:03 am
Shining grass carp flipping themselves across the water like rows of silver skipping stones, as I walked my old dog along the bayou at dawn.
A quiet man with pale green eyes, dark skin, delicately etched features. Showed him an apartment yesterday. He moved like a dancer, looked like a jewel.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 7:24 am
My son in his green plastic boots (with frogs of all colors) in a little pool of water looking down.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 7:29 am
My cat purring and making biscuit in my boyfriend’s hair for the first time. She’s madly in love with him and he spoils her rotten. It’s an odd feeling to have your cat very comfortable with someone you’ve been struggling to find a deeper meaning with.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 7:30 am
My son sleeping. It’s something I never do take a picture of, because I don’t want to share those moments…when I can just adore him without worrying about anything other than how much I love him.
Of course when he wakes up he is never still enough to *take* a picture of him…!
Also: a red shouldered hawk landing in our front yard, sitting there for a minute panting, and then taking off again. I think he lives in the empty lot across from our house.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 7:50 am
A sky that looks like, if the world would flip upside down and shake us all off, we could climb in the mountains and valleys made up of clouds, surrounded by seas of pink, purple, red, and blue.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 7:57 am
My nieghbour cutting her boyfriends hair on their deck, it was like watching a ballet.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 7:58 am
A little bird collecting my dog hair out of the cracks in the pavers. I’ll be part of her home!
June 3rd, 2010 @ 8:16 am
You, smiling to read all the poetry evoked by your question.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 8:24 am
My Manx cat going nuts over the little house finches that have come back for round two in their nest on our unfinished porch. There is a window at the landing of the staircase which looks out to the porch. He had a perfect view and his little nubby tail was twitching away while he chattered at them. The window was closed so they were oblivious to him and kept working on their nest.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 9:01 am
A group of school kids running around a local park with animal antlers on their heads. They were amazing creatures, and it made me giggle.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 9:05 am
A group of disadvantaged kids who were in some sort of after school program, laughing, yelling and cheering as they were playing kickball in a local park.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 9:11 am
We had a party on Memorial Day and with maybe 50 people sitting around talking and fiddlers playing, and here come the tiniest little mouse I’d ever seen, shorter than the grass, maybe an inch long just moseying along, completely oblivious to us all. It was soooo cute.
I had my camera and was so enthralled I didn’t even think to take a picture.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 10:08 am
The passion on friend’s faces as we had a deep conversation last night.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 10:12 am
A mallard duck standing on a ledge outside my office window, his feathers blowing with the wind, his eyes blinking in the rain, and him quacking at nothing in particular.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 10:13 am
MIster Pinkerton playing with his dinner. He caught an ugly old bucktoothed vole and was flinging it in the air while laying on his back in a patch of petunias.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 10:21 am
Watching eleven Sandhill Cranes in the field behind our house, one of them dancing for his mate, whilst enjoying our morning coffee.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 10:33 am
A hawk soaring to a branch on a dead tree as I past driving on the freeway.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 10:55 am
My dog sniffing the air while walking in a semi-circle around a man leaning on a wall eating. The man had to laugh, as did I.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 10:56 am
The wren family nesting in the plastic bag hanging by the basement door. I can hear the chicks peeping and cheeping when I go to the basement to do laundry.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 11:01 am
My nephew’s smile of pure joy…….
June 3rd, 2010 @ 11:07 am
Well, maybe not today… but yesterday evening while taking my dog to agility class, saw an amazing almost-sunset. The clouds were cupping the sun, like it was in the middle of a nebula right there in the sky.
I know sunsets are kinda overdone. Yes, they’re all pretty and lots of people take pictures of them. But I really like when the cloud formations are interesting. Especially when the sun is lighting them up from behind, setting the edges on fire…
June 3rd, 2010 @ 11:34 am
Bless you Pam (#33).
June 3rd, 2010 @ 11:42 am
The white cotton ball tail of a rabbit as it takes off after being startled by me and my two Labs on our morning walk.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 11:43 am
Everyone’s pictures are fabulous!! I can see them all!
June 3rd, 2010 @ 1:07 pm
My younger corgi, “frogging” or “flying squirrel” (lying down with his hind legs straight out behind him), in a shallow stream trying to cool his belly, on our hot and humid morning walk…..
June 3rd, 2010 @ 2:51 pm
How pretty the sunrise over the marsh was this morning, shining through the clouds and the spanish moss. :)
June 3rd, 2010 @ 3:54 pm
The 3 turkey boys (aka the Three Stooges ;) strutting down the street, in full feather, answering my call back :::: GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE:::::: I call that out, and the three of them, mid strut, immediately FREEZE, stick their heads forward, and answer me back. Call of the wild, I tell ya!
June 3rd, 2010 @ 4:00 pm
oh wait, here’s a human one:
my youngest son, who, so much like me, that we clash and daily have angry words for each other—as he exited the car this morning to get on the bus for his Grad Night Disneyland Trip (an 8 hr drive down South) eager not to go, yet already forgeting I’m there—deigns to say goodbye with a handshake. Yep, that’s what I knew I might get (oh no, not a kiss goodbye!) before he climbed aboard that bus and the worry/guilt-o meter started it’s clock. I asked “could you give your mother a handshake goodbye?” and he did. And I took that with gratitude.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 6:36 pm
9:00am this morning: Foggy grey morning mist in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Silent except for sound of condensation dripping from the eucalyptus tree branches, & occasional foghorn. Two Buddhist monks in saffron robes suddenly emerge from a stand of trees, hands clasped behind themselves as they stroll peacefully down the forest pathway. An off-leash dog barks playfully in the distance, running circles around its owner. I wipe away the misty droplets forming on my eyelashes.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 6:54 pm
Our orange tabby Sam running to jump up and sprawl on the boot bench after I got home, with his head against my purse. Each day he does this, leaning on the purse or my bag that I carry lunch,a book to read and other supplies in. Usually he shoves his head into the bag first, sniffs, then lays down and leans, purring with pleasure. His person and ‘his’ bag are home, in their right place, and his world is complete.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 7:47 pm
A treasured day with my best friend on a trip up Flagstaff Mountain above Boulder:
Tiny mountain wildflowers that bloom in gravel or out of steep cliff rocks in absolute perfection… whether or not they are seen and enjoyed.
Cyclists struggling to bike the nearly impossible elevation gain and finding myself rooting for them – “come on, you can do it, you can do it…”
June 3rd, 2010 @ 7:56 pm
Yes, Liane (#76), I agree: bless you, Pam (#33).
June 3rd, 2010 @ 8:04 pm
Today was the first day of Operation Get My Butt Back, my six-week program I created to rescue myself from some unwanted spread. With my awesome new running shoes, I race walked and partially ran for five miles … and on my way home jumped up an embankment and just barely missed stepping on a snake! Later I went to the farmer’s market, got my hair cut, had a chai iced tea at a local coffee house, and went to mom’s for a BLT minus the L.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 9:12 pm
came home from work to find a 6 inch tail of a lizzard next to a pile of vomit on my patio. A little black kitty was curled up on a chair nearby looking a bit green around the gills.
June 3rd, 2010 @ 10:18 pm
The lightning in the sky/As it passed me flying by
June 3rd, 2010 @ 10:28 pm
Crawling, climbing across a bridge under construction. Sorry, but one hand had to hold on while the other kept balance!
A wild goose chase at the end but overcoming fear of heights plus water at the same time = Priceless.
The things we do for love…
June 4th, 2010 @ 7:26 am
fresh mowed lawn with my pack running like one mad dervish round and round, which pissed off the birds who were trying to snag the fleeing bugs!
the look of relief in a cancer-ridden dog against the look of sorrow in the owners eyes as we gently helped him leave his painful body.
June 4th, 2010 @ 9:28 am
My brother running back from the outhouse grabbing his shotgun,and running back out and shooting a rattlesnake wearing boxers, boots, and T-shirt.
June 4th, 2010 @ 12:15 pm
OMG Julie that is hilarious! (the handshake) How graceful you are!
June 4th, 2010 @ 7:01 pm
The stray cat who wouldn’t come near me when he arrived here a month ago meowing at my french doors so that I’ll come outside and pet him…
June 4th, 2010 @ 10:05 pm
a concert in an outdoor beer-garden with my best friends on a warm late-spring night.
June 5th, 2010 @ 11:46 pm
Rain beading on the petals of my roses on the waterfall of color that is my pink rambler in the early summer.
June 6th, 2010 @ 7:24 am
Today I did not take a picture in near darkness of the fireflies dancing in the side field when I went out to put the chickens in for the night.
Sometimes it’s jut fun to stop and stare.
June 7th, 2010 @ 11:20 am
Saturday evenig I did not take the picture of a bright partial rain-bow (just one “leg”, never even got to the arching part) we saw while driving back from ordering a few pieces of furniture for our new house. It had been a hot day, cooled a little by a half-hearted shower, and there was a mix of clouds and blue sky over the city behind the mini-rainbow.
Sunday afternoon I did not take a picture of the patterns the maple tree’s leaves made against the hot blue sky as my friends and I sat on the patio, taking a break from moving.
June 8th, 2010 @ 7:17 pm
The intriguing, interesting faces of blind co-workers I observed during a long, very long staff meeting this afternoon.
13 year old brown man buster dog watched me with intense, sad eyes as I walked to my car this morning.
June 9th, 2010 @ 7:28 pm
This post made me think of something my father said to me a few years ago while we were on vacation….there was a moment where I WISHED I had a camera with me, and with full on sincerity, my father turned to me and said:
“My dear, there are some moments in life when you just don’t need a camera, you will always just REMEMBER this moment”
Since that day, I love having moments that I know I won’t need a camera to ‘remember’.
February 10th, 2011 @ 8:18 pm
I would take a picture of:
A group of popular people bunched up together, showing what its like to be me, on the outside, being let in when you have something cool, but being kicked back out.