Yeah, kinda like that.

"And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible."
richard avedon

Macro Thursday!

When I got up this morning, I opened the curtain to see tons of frost everywhere, much more than last time, and I knew that it would go as soon as the sun touched it so I yanked on my clothes, grabbed the camera and went outside for what seems to be my weekly Macro trip.

bit of an oxymoron isn't it?



Another dandelion. I think they are prettier with dew, but this had a bit of both dew and frost..... and pretty bokeh in the background.

Just the edge of a leaf.

Much prettier full sized. I did not crop

Yes, I messed with the size of the moon. If it were really this size, there would be 42 foot tidal waves and our earth would be rockin' on it's axis right now. But it looks cool.

Linda called me yesterday and since she had 3 days off work (had to take them or lose them) she invited me out to lunch today. We went to Napolis and stuffed ourselves. It was so yummy. We talk and talk when we're together... we were there for 2 hours.

I've accomplished pretty much nothing else today except pics and lunch. I think I'll get up and vacuum before Gene gets home. :)

Ad placement FAIL

Read this freakish story:

Sheriff: Family cremated mom on BBQ, kept benefits

CORNING, Calif. - The family of a dead elderly woman cremated her remains on a makeshift barbecue and continued collecting her retirement checks amounting to more than $25,000, authorities in Northern California said. Ramona Allmond's daughter and grandson were arrested Sunday on suspicion of embezzlement, elder abuse and disposing of a body without a permit.

Allmond, 84, likely died of natural causes, though investigators were still trying to determine the exact cause of death, said Tehama County sheriff's Capt. Paul Hosler.

Allmond's daughter, Kathleen Allmond, 50, and Allmond's grandson, Tony Ray, 30, told investigators their relative died in December. They left her body on her bedroom floor for a week before cremating the remains in their backyard fire pit, Hosler said.

Investigators said the two kept collecting Allmond's monthly retirement checks, amounting to more than $25,000. Sheriff's Detective Richard Knox said they may have been trying to honor Allmond's desire to die at home and be cremated.

The two were arrested after Allmond's son grew suspicious about her whereabouts.

Both were in jail in lieu of bail, with arraignment scheduled for Thursday. The sheriff's department said they do not yet have attorneys.

At the bottom of the story, this unfortunate ad placement:

Hump day

This morning, I woke up to this message waiting to be approved:
"Not to sound like a spammer. There's a new method of headache pain relief...... blah blah blah... get this pillow blah blah".

"Not to sound like a bitch", but dude, that's spam.

Access DENIED.

My lower back is killing me today now. He adjusted that, even tho it was not hurting me. I hate getting my lower back done. It woke me up several times last night. I could not get comfortable.

Today, going to work on prints again, email some customers, work on my facebook page, argue with my propane ppl about the total on my bill - it doesn't add up. They have me down for 400 gallons, when I ordered 650 gallons... but the total $$ is correct. *sigh*. Try to get my nails done. It's hard to type right now. Oh, and call the foundation guy and light a fire under him. I have ZERO protection right now.

Gene lit the pilot light last night. Took him a while because the propane tank had been changed in the summer, and then one of the levers had a sign on the furnace - unreadable. Finally he got it after like an hour and then called me over there to show me where it needed lit, what I needed to do. All I could thing was "Stop showing me how to do things if you die!!!!"

Cuz I'm paranoid like that.

Nothing else exciting.
I'm boring.
Sorry :p

Bleh

Woke up today with a serious crick in my neck. Always from my pillow shifting (I use a feather pillow) and causing my chin to be buried in my neck. Hurts after a while. Well, got a headache - which got worse and worse to the point of my vision on the left being *very weird*. Got worried. Drank a diet coke (thought maybe it was lack of caffiene). Nope - didn't work. Finally dragged myself into town and on the way decided I'd just go by the chiro to see if he had any openings. I waited all of about 5 min.

He cracked me a few times and I took advil. Headache calmed down, but I can still feel my neck aching.

Ended up going to St. Joe to buy some things for the bridal fair coming up. I needed some paper and some wedding-ish things. I have some ideas that I want to implement. Well, got out at Hobby Lobby, and as I was locking the doors I realized CRAP - I forgot to leave tanner's papers in town for him (he delivers papers). SIGH.

So I only when to HL for about 45 min and then came straight home so he'd have them when he got off the bus. What a pain. New rule, no more putting off papers until Monday night (meaning I have to drag them into town). I ended up having to go to town twice, and on a day I really should have stayed in bed.

On the up side, I did sleep like a log 2 nights in a row. No idea what's up, but it sure felt good. I'm a really weird dreamer - meaning I will dream wild, out there, crazy crap. Usually it keeps me from sleeping really well.

In a way, it was good I got home early because the mail man came to the house and had my delivery of prints - I hope he wouldn't have left them outside - that would have been a mess because it rained all day. So, my 8 x 10 album got assembled today and it looks REALLY NICE. I'm so impressed with the quality of prints and the album is awesome. Loving it.

I did also pick up a couple little things to make information for the brides with. I'm really working on branding of the business.

Just wanted to share this really bad picture. Dunno why I love it. It's old. Me and Gene laying on a beach, enjoying the sun, sticking out like a sore thumb because we're the only 2 with jeans on, and he's the only one in the tri-county area with a cowboy hat on. LOL. and probably the only one with a diamondback hat band. Was going through some old pics again - still looking for one pic in particular for Love Thursday over on shutter sisters and CAN'T FIND IT.

So annoying.