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Business Casual
Office casual, used under the “Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported.” My daughter is enrolled in Fire Academy classes up north. She has her text books, ...
Wind, Rain, and Fear - Plus
Rain in Ketchikan, Alaska. I’m staying home. Now. But in a couple of hours I have to get myself out on the rain-slick roads for a doctor’s appointment. It’s not far away. On a clear day I c...
A Foggy Morning
Coming into Ketchikan, Alaska. The morning fogs seemed gentle today. I jackhammered myself up and off to the pool after losing my morning game of solitaire. By the time I reached pool on its ...
Keeping Me Humble
Star quilt. I expanded my horizons last night. Friday I attended a meeting and survived an hour on a hard metal chair. Since getting my new hip, I’d been missing my Sunday night meeting. I...
"P" is for Photography
Glasses on plate. My photography this last month has been limited in scope. It’s almost March, and I have spent much of this month recovering from a IBS attack. Like with allergy solutions, a...
Oh Joy!!!
First Class pool in the Queen Mary, Long Beach, 1999. Our pool is open again. Oh Hurrah, Caloo, Calay. Yes, I creak and groan after being out of the water so long, but now I really know how i...
Laughing all the Way 4
A belled Kitty. He urged me to get to the gym. Some of you agreed with him. So did I. So I drove over with him. I grabbed a shirt, popped it over my sweatshirt, didn’t finish my coffee, and...
Journeying About
American Indian Museum, glass horse mask, 2013. I’m free of exercise this week because the heater on the pool is broken. G tempts me with things like, “Camille and Amy were in the gym this mor...
Keep On Seeing
The Continental Gunboat “Philadelphia,” built and sunk in 1776. Celebrated our wedding anniversary a week early. Silly us. Saw The Monuments Men. I’d see that again. In the meantime, I’ll h...
Stay In Touch!!!
Don’s memorial. Center: his wife and brother. I’m especially glad today that daughter Milaka was able to drive up to Don’s Anacosta memorial gathering. Not only did she represent the family, ...
Don DeLlamas
Don on a San Diego visit in 1999. Don was a painter of note. His abstracts are much appreciated by his wide range of collectors. His portraits always caught the soul of the personality of h...
The Special Days
Pilot boat leaving Vancouver. Like the pilot boat, I was out there greeting the new day yesterday. Less cold, no runny nose, and little coughing. I worked at the shop with the few donations t...
Happy Heart Day
Two Aids Walk Signature Panels, 1996 – 1997….reworked. Yes, The sun is out. Yes, inland it will be above 80 degrees F. Yes too, I’m going to work. Yes, I will stay far, far away from folks...
Perhaps I'm a Hat
The Fresnel lens at the top of the Cabrillo Lighthouse. Life is simple. Read, nap, go out to dinner or invent a dinner that takes no effort, and read. Did I mention blowing my nose. Every da...
Smokey and the Bandit
The truck and the car….1977: Smokey and the Bandit images used “under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.” This Hal Needham, 1977 chase film was just the right th...
Pariah
I offer a very lackadaisical read this morning. As George’s common cold improves, I begin flaunting a similar version late Monday evening. You can hear my sneezes a mile away. My nose blowing ...
Portrait
Portrait. We are already to the tenth. There’s nothing I can do about the way time flies just like I’m not going to do anything about my wrinkles. I am going to do something about the lack of...
Intermittent
Middle California back country. Dear George was a little better, but our DSL line was down, intermittent, and down again. This morning, it couldn’t decide what it was, and G was really too sick...
An Unexciting Day
Delightful and entertaining paste. It was the day for the jewelry event at the store. I got to work almost 45 minutes early to photograph the fun stuff, and a line was forming outside when I...
Snippits 124
We gave all but the carb munchies away today shopping for veggies and fruit just before eight tonight. The Weight Watcher lecturer asked what one thing did you want to change this week. G and I...
Old Pictures
Off the stern of the Oosterdam in San Diego. I’ve been going through photos of our last cruise. I thought you might like seeing some that I haven’t used yet. No time to comment. I’m off to s...
Cookbooks Again.
Food. Middle of California veggie fields. 2010. We are low on cookbooks at work. They always sell, and we don’t even have half a shelf. I went through my own shelves yesterday neatening and...
Horrified.
Mission on the Old Santa Fe trail, 2011. I was moved by the news of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death this morning. Later in the day, I was horrified to hear that he died of an overdose of the ne...
Keepin' on Truckin"
NY City snow, Photo: BDMK 2014. No snow here, but I like Bobbies picture. It’s an errands in the rain kind of day. Pick up a sample of the $139.00 dollar inhaler. Pick up yogurt. Big earth...
Rim
Grumpy at the Auto Museum. We are off in Grumpy to the far off mesa of Otay inland from Chula Vista. G’s found two junque yards that might have a rim for the Toyota. From there to Costco t...
