The Camera

This week Carmi is turning our cameras inside out so to speak! So grab whatever device and let's show off our shooting stuff!

THEMATIC PHOTOGRAPHIC

"For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition 

and spontaneity."
Henri Cartier Bresson 

Here, hubby and I are having a shooting dual!
It's a face to face- shoot-off!

"People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody sees the person holding the camera."
Erica O'Rourke


Unless there's a mirror clearly reflecting the photographer.

Catching a live action shot!

Below are three devices I shoot with.

On being faithful to your lens-

Henri Cartier-Bresson shot with several lenses while on assignment working for Magnum, but he only shot with a 50 mm lens when shooting for himself.  He took his pictures for decades with that one lens allowing his camera to become an extension of his eye.

A Little Place

There's A Little Place I Often Pass, and tonight it was bursting with laughter from neighbors toting folding chairs like armor over their shoulders, while many tussled with screaming toddlers too tired to keep up.

It's our town, with generations of families carrying on the Pan-O-Prog tradition.

SUNDAY SELECTIONS

for Drifting Through Life's theme- A Little Place I Often Pass

It was a superb array of vintage beauties slowly descending main street U.S.A.

2015 Pan-O-Prog Cruise Night

The occupants came in pairs mostly.  Ma and Pa somebody stepping back in time with their beloved Ford or Chevy, among other vehicles too.

"Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?"

Budd Schulberg

Ford, Chevy, Plymouth, no matter the class, they're really all automobiles.

Oh goodness this is a classic catch-

care to see a little more? What could it be?

Ta Da! Here she is in all her glory.

"Cars and cameras are the two things 
I let myself be materialistic about. 
I don't care about other stuff." - Louis C K


Honestly, my attention is easily distracted by cars.  
Especially their license plates, 
which is much like the human side 
to an automobile wouldn't you agree?

Dost thou love life?
 Than do not squander time,
 for that is the stuff 
life is made of."
  Benjamin Franklin

Another little place I often pass is right here.
Ice cream anyone?
It's a full service cafe too, perhaps you're hungry for a burger?

and just a matter of about 30 miles from the ice cream parlor in 

Welch, Minnesota is Lake City, another little place I often pass while heading to Lake Pepin to feel the water, and scout for treasures.

What a beautiful Sunday this was, while visiting a bunch of -
little places I often pass.

I sure hope you all had a wonderful weekend and are ready for a great week ahead.
Thanks for stopping by.

Sparkle

An Out-of-the-Ordinary kind 

of day, where everything that shines, 

has lots of sparkle to it.

SIX WORD FRIDAYS

and 

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS



Your free soul is worth knowing!

Just be the person you are.

Every bug needs his own spot.

If the bug above isn't critter-enough-

Here's an adorable sweet critter face!

One can only sparkle by living.

Let the water speak to you.

Being locked up you'll never sparkle!

It pays to wander and let
 your adventures fall as they may!

Friends are family, we sparkle with!

Be who you are and sparkle!

Thanks for stopping by here today, 

your presence always makes me sparkle!

A Sighting

Good morning dear friends!

I had a wizardly delightful sighting early this morning!

Can you spot him?

He's really there, on his favorite swing.
Look closer.

GOOD FENCES


"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
Albert Einstein

There he is....

"Nature always wears the color of the spirit."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful
we must carry it with us or we find it not."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Thanks for stopping by Happy Thursday to all! Enjoy this day!

Liquidity

"Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written."- Alex Morritt

THEMATIC PHOTOGRAPHIC

Carmi, from Written Inc blog is calling for our Liquidity posts!

First-

On the state of being liquid-
greetings from Lake Ann.

Living off the land and sailing across the waters
 along the many chapters of our life.

Even through stormy waters

to calm seas

there we'll be, writing our living stories!


Until, it's time to break the old piggy bank,and run away with all our available liquid cash!

Woody has a plan!

So what's your idea of liquidity today?

7 July Tuesday Afternoon

Welcome to the first 

TUESDAY AFTERNOON

Summertime holidays generally follow the same rules as camping, in my book of summertime rules.  Once you're out celebrating a holiday weekend especially, everything else in life gets pushed to the back burner.

You live in the moment.

If you're real lucky, you've been doing whatever it is you enjoy doing without watching the clock.  Of course, now that it's Tuesday afternoon, pretty much everyone has packed up and journeyed back to their day jobs and life.

A few lucky ones are still out there boating, surfing or

just playing in their backyard gardens.

"There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge
of saying something.
 It never says, or perhaps it says infinitely, 
or perhaps we do not understand it, 
or we understand it 
and it is untranslatable as music."
Jorge Luis Borges

There are those times I'd rather not close the holiday spirit so quickly.  So, why not pack a picnic lunch and take a hike.  Pretend it's still the weekend, even if it's really just a glorious Tuesday afternoon!

"Sure, I'm never without my trusty board.  You just never know when the surf's up!"

Feel free to share your own Tuesday Afternoon. 
this has been sponsored by
A Spirit of Simplicity.

You Looking at Me?

"When he looks back at me, his eyes travel around my face the way fingers dart through the bottom of a drawer, searching for batteries in a blackout." Holly Schindler

THE MAG

 A Magpie Tale

Bathers 1950 By George Tooker

Dream Lover

No MATTER HOW MANY TIMES

I LOOK at YOU

YOU'RE JUST NOT THERE

There's a love in my heart

if put to lines

of a sonnet

all fourteen lines

would be all you.

But you know that.

I'm left like 

a deflated beach ball that

sits idle, makes no sense 

your love was that

of free verse

and nothing more between the lines.

Now everywhere I look- I see you.

But you're just not there.

"I will find you.  In the farthest corner, I will find you."
Mary E. Pearson

"Or, perhaps-"

"Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed."
Mary E. Pearson

Artsy Cows Colorful, Indeed

"The purest, most thoughtful minds are

 those which love color the most."

John Ruskin

HAPPY Fourth of July to ALL

SIX WORD FRIDAYS- COLOR

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

Abraham Lincoln 

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

"Cows are amongst the most gentlest

of breathing creatures; none show more 

passionate tenderness to their young when

 deprived of them; and, in short,

 I am not ashamed to profess 

 deep love for these quiet creatures."

 Thomas de Quincey

"Remember the most beautiful things in

 the world are the most useless."

John Ruskin

Stay safe and enjoy your holiday weekend!

A Dog Cat Affair

"The course of true love never did run smooth."
William Shakespeare

THE MAG

and

Words for Wednesday
(words in italic from Drifting through life blog list of words.)


A DOG CAT AFFAIR

His poor little lovesick heart was instinctively battered,
even cautiously assessing
his four-legged options (hound's attempt) to widened
and broaden his horizons by weighing loyal credit
to his proud collection of options,
 offered him little clarity.

Magnus, being a mostly affectionate, pure bred Shepherd, 
and top ranking candidate in his class and branded 
by his thesis of helpfulness-
he soul heartily believed
he'd really
put a winning finger
or rather, best paw foot forward
in his game of cat and mouse.
He'd barkingly steal her purr-fectly
meowing nature and whisker his way perfectly
into her purring heart and capture his
adorable feline in a flash!

Good Fences- Fallen But

"..she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was

sentimentally patriotic." - Irene Nemirovsky

GOD

SPARE

THE

TREE

Fallen, but never forgotten.

....and so it goes, a weekend of storms racked havoc in random places.

GOOD FENCES 

The good thing is Rusty has a gigantic new chew toy!

.... and we had a place to hang this-

"It's not what you gather,
but what you scatter 
that tells what kind of life
you have lived."
Helen Walton


I appreciate every moment you gather and scatter here.  This is a wee bit early but, Enjoy your Fourth of July celebrations and be safe.

Thematic Photographic - 339 - Aged

It began with tantalizing conception, as townsfolk banned the wood and built of brick, with wealth held in high regard.  From the land of yesteryear, they blessed those sacred stones set for centuries to come. Or, so they dreamed.

Long gone are those ancient hammers and trowels which shaped a mighty presence of community; defining a strong sense of continuity and years of continued success.  What once was diligently formed and leveled by man's heroic craft and fined tuned touches, from face brickwork to mass blockwork, now is left standing in the great doom of void.  Simply said, a complete breakdown in the continuity of care.

THEMATIC PHOTOGRAPHIC

Sadly, it still stands empty.

The signs of the time and personal prejudices has left this structure void of life.

Ancient or modern?

"It seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern back and forth.  She felt rather sorry for those who only knew one and not the other.  It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievement than to be bound within one narrow range." - Orson Scott Card.