The Ojo del Lago just reran this piece on writers who live in the Lake Chapala area. It was written by Jim Tipton, a wonderful local poet who passed away a few years ago. It gives a view of the vast variety of writers who live here. Go here to see it: https://www.chapala.com/lakechapala/writers-at-lakeside/
With Science
This word conscience–that pull from deep within us to do what’s right for the world? If we look at the original meaning of the root word “con,” it means “with science or knowledge.” And if science is the study of the natural world, then look to nature to understand yourself. Be cognizant of the fact that we are interdependent. Begin to hear the echoes of your own well-being in the state of nature. It uses what ammunition it can to bring its truths to our notice: flood, fire, more violent hurricanes, a rise in temperature, Coronavirus.
As much as we search for truth in the laboratory, it is in the wilderness that we find our answers. We cannot create anything except from the materials of nature, for that is all there is. We are a part of it, not its end. In choosing to blithely destroy the patterns of nature, we destroy ourselves.
Prompt words for today are wilderness, cognizant, begin, conscience and echoes.
Sometimes it is hard to decide which line it is most important to make completely vertical or horizontal in a photo. Especially in Mexico, where things are many times not exactly square! Here are two shots I took and the decisions I made in leveling. The first shot in each sequence is the original shot.
Since none of the trees were parallel anyway, it bothered me most that the roofline was not horizontal, so that is what I used to level the shot.
Since my house is situated on a hill, it is always a hard decision to decide what to make horizontal and it looks off no matter what I do. In the original shot, it bothers me that the front wall is not horizontal. Even if I level it, the shot is awkward because of the upward slope of the hill. One solution is just to crop off the bottom part of the scene so the street doesn’t show.
For the Sunday Stills Challenge. “Let’s Get Something Straight.”
Remember the flower that vanished a few weeks ago between the time I first saw it and two hours later when I returned with the camera? This is the newest flower on that bush. Finally, my patience has been rewarded, but not my curiosity over where it could have vanished to in a back yard behind locked gates with only me there!
For Cee’s FOTD
Front door mural completed
Some of you have seen my newly-muraled front door, but it seems so perfect for this prompt that here it is again. The artists are Jesus Lopez Vega and his son Eduardo.
Cee’s challenge is to publish a photo of the cutest thing on your desk. This is the little Bobble Head in the shape of a steer that Ollie batted off the shelf in the guest bedroom and bit the leg off last week. I’ve inserted a toothpick in lieu of the lost leg but haven’t painted it yet. The paint is down in the studio and I keep forgetting to take this down or bring paint up. He has been sitting on my desk trying to remind me to finish his transformation but meanwhile is the cutest thing on my desk.
For Cee’s FOTD
Click on photos to enlarge.
What reflects our personalities more than what we put on our heads?
There is a distinction between avarice, self importance, grandstanding and obtaining a meal for your family in the wild. This man has no honor and is making all US citizens pay for his and his family’s outrageous vacations and splurges. *** This should make you think how you will vote while you are sitting at […]
