Sometimes, feet win out over socks…and demand wiggle room.
In his foot steps, literally.
Giving a pedicure to this wiggle worm was quite a feat in itself!!!
Feats of Feet
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Cee’s Flower a Day Challenge
I took these pictures in my garden yesterday, before the rain.
This strange object that looks like a meteorite or piece of carved Cinnabar is actually a dahlia. I just edited and edited , using different filters and tools until this was the result. It is rather beautiful, I think, so I’m including it. I think it looks like two hooded women standing back-to-back. If you look closely, you can see the stamens in the center toward the top. They also look like the impression of a turtle.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/06/26/flower-of-the-day-june-26-2015-dahlia/
Biographical Mixed Tape Play List, Now with Links!!!
A Testimonial from Morrie (Pictured) the newest in the pack around here: “Wouldn’t you believe a face like this? I have this to say about Judy’s music mix. There’s not a dog in the bunch! Go ahead–give them a listen!!! Her taste in music is as good as her taste in dogs. “
First of all, I want to thank Morrie for his endorsement of my musical taste. When he first came to live here, just a few short weeks ago, his musical taste was no more refined than a fondness for”How Much is That Doggie in the Window” and an ability to sing along on the chorus with “The Singing Dogs.” But he seems to be a clever little dog. He learned to sit and stay very quickly. Also how to break into my bedroom through the bars on the grill work at the door. But it never occurred to me that he was absorbing the culture of the house as well. So thanks, Morrie, for your vote of confidence.
Now, on to the matter at hand. When I published my list of songs for my mixed tape yesterday, I didn’t have the links attached. I now have links for all but one, so if you’d like an easy way to listen to a lot of good music, please go back to yesterday’s post HERE.
While you are waiting, or if you aren’t interested in backtracking EVEN FOR THE REWARD OF SOME REALLY GOOD MUSIC, here’s a song I love (with link) that didn’t exactly suit my biography. The dog mentioned at the beginning is Morrie, though!!!
Silent All These Years Tori Amos
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/mix-tape-masterpiece/
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/the-golden-hour/
Re-tired
“That” bird raps down the scale hysterically–not appropriate music for 6 a.m. Just three hours ago, I was listening to Janis, who needed a Mercedez Benz, a man to love and fast transport out of Baton Rouge, in that order according to my play list. Now, when I’ve finally rid her angst from my dreams and I’m on a smooth course, here is nature’s alarm clock trying to convince me that 6 a.m.is a sane hour to rise. No, I answer silently, tucking one hand under the pillow my head is resting upon and using the other to pull the spare pillow over my exposed ear.
By isolating myself from this cheerful world of morning, I choose delay. The puppy, who has snubbed the comfortable new bed I have bought for him in favor of being two feet closer to me, jumps up next to me from his resting place beneath my bed and burrows against my spine, complicit in my choice of the best way to spend a morning.
To read more about night owl activities that lead to sleeping in in the morning, go HERE.
And HERE is another poem about what happens when I do wake up and decide to stay that way–usually closer to 8 o’clock.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “The Golden Hour.” 6:00AM: the best hour of the day, or too close to your 3:00AM bedtime?
Zany Zinnias: Cee’s Flower of the Day
Each of these zany beauties is an original –from gap-toothed teenagers to grandmothers in full bloom wearing corsages of pistils sprouting stamens each of which seems to be a full miniature flower in its own right. I took more pictures, but my computer seems to be rejecting all attempts to upload them, so sorry, Marilyn–I wanted to give you a full spectacular array, but fate is against us in this.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/06/25/flower-of-the-day-june-25-2015-daisy/
Country Girl Gawking at the TALL Buildings!
Country Girl Gawking at the TALL Buildings!
The prompt is “Buildings over four stories high,” but there were no buildings that tall in my home town. The courthouse was comprised of three dizzying stories and that’s about as “high” as I got while I was growing up!
There was, however, one towering structure in my town:
And of course, there were other skyscrapers as well:
But, when I returned a month ago, I noticed competition for tallest edifice:
It is a new structure that stores water piped in from the Missouri River 60 miles away.
Brave new world!!!
But, just to prove you can take the girl out of the country, let me share some earlier views from the California portion of my trip.
Views of San Francisco still bring out the neck-craning hayseed in me.
Cee has me checking everythng out in black and white lately, and I prefer these cast in a film noir mood:
But my favorite is this rather sinister edited version that suggests Armageddon:
Mix Tape Autobiography
Mix Tape Autobiography
These are all songs that I love that have a special significance–either to my present or past life. Most can be found on YouTube or iTunes. I hope you enjoy them. They are in no particular order, although the first song is probably from the most distant past. You might guess where “Little Bird” fits in, and “Buckets of Rain.”
I Can’t Get Over You–Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy
Passenger–Lisa Hannigan
Only a Woman’s Heart Can Know–Eleanor McAvoy & Mary Black
Little Bird–Laura Marling
Buckets of Rain–Neko Case
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore–Lina Romay
Life Ain’t Easy–Dr. Hook
Up on the Mountain–Dr. Hook
The One Who Loves You the Most–Brett Dennen
Take the Night Off–Laura Marling
Long Way Home–Tom Waits
Breathe–Laura Marling
Better than Love–Griffin House
Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)–Janis Joplin
Where Can I Go?–Laura Marling
How to Love–Christina Grimmie
Looking for Someone–Sarah Slean
Somewhere in Mexico–The Tall Boys
Keep Me in Your Heart–Warren Zevon
Faithfully–Clem Snide
Goin’ Down Slow–Blinddog Smokin’
Hold On–Alabama Shakes
One of the Brightest Stars–James Blunt
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Mix Tape Masterpiece.” You make a new friend. Make them a mix tape (or playlist, for the younger folks) that tells them who you are through song.
Hurricane
Hurricane!!!
When clouds obscure
the light of day
in a certain manner
we start to pray.
It may bring rain
it might bring snow
it might bring wind
to blow and blow.
Small animals
desert this world
they know the dangers
of air unfurled.
http://jennifernicholewells.com/2015/06/23/one-word-photo-challenge-hurricane/
Zinnia with Butterfly for Marilyn! Cee’s Flower of the Day, June 24 2015
Walking with the Sun on My Face
Red’s list of beliefs has the ring of truth and conviction. It reads a bit like Annie Dillard or–shoot, someone else whose name I can’t remember right now. (Gretel Ehrlich!–thanks Patti and Duckie for reminding me.) She was a writer who was struck by lightning and who was a sheepherder for a few years in Wyoming. Anyone know who I’m talking about? I read her book three times and still can’t recall her name, but she was given to philosophizing as she recorded the everyday events of her life and loved her writing as I love this piece of Red’s writing…Judy
Here are my ten thoughts about the world today.
1. Sometimes I miss carrying people but it’s nice to swing my arms when I walk and have no worries.
2. I had lost touch with how intensely self-conscious my Nicaraguan children sometimes were in places we went as a white family but I am remembering it now and wish I’d really understood what I was seeing when I was seeing it.
3. If there is a God, I think he or she frequently gives people more than they can handle but they survive mostly because they decide to focus on what’s going to happen in the next five minutes.
4. I will never fully understand the concept of forgiveness although I do understand reaching a point of letting go of one’s rage before it becomes lethal.
5. Martin Niemoller’s caution still rings true even though we like to see it as…
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