Ramblings, Senseless and Obsolete

In lieu of a real post...

Can you indulge me a couple more pictures from the weekend? I don't have enough exciting stuff going on in my life and am not thinking an deep thoughts to have anything else to share. I used to post almost every day and it seemed like it had more quality to the posts than lately. I guess that is just the cyclical nature of life. Right now I am in a busy but boring cycle. I am settling into a comfortable place with the studio. Business if picking up and I am able to manage my work without working on my precious weekends or evenings. That is a good thing. The one thing I want to add to my life is to do more photography just for me. And I am trying!

No one slept well last night. It was too hot. So the kids must have been very mellow this morning.

When I went downstairs all of them were sitting around the dining room table with their hands wrapped around steaming mugs of tea or coffee chatting quietly. Like some blue haired koffee klatsch. Strange when you consider how many times I've gotten phone calls at work lately to receive complaints and settle bickerings. I don't know if they needed this moment of quiet, but I sure needed to see it! I really want them to be friends and be there for each other when they grow up. And I know some fighting among sibs is "normal." But when you are in the middle of it, it all seems to be too much and to cross the line somehow. I guess it's a forest for the trees kind of thing. Right now I don't have perspective. I am too close. Too much in the middle.  I am so afraid that they will be estranged from one another like my brother and I were. But that is an object lesson I don't think they will forget. At least I hope so.

Anyway. The photos...

The end of summer

Sigh.....

Endless summer ain't nothin' but a Beach Boys album. At least around here.

My favorite flip flops are offically too scraped up to wear anywhere but at home. But they went out in style!

I wanted to take the girls out for a portrait session of just them. I've had this picture in mind for the last week or so. Melanie wasn't able to come. But the nice days are numbered so we went with what we have!

We drove to a spot in the Iroquois River where there is a public access spot and waded in. Eric had gone with us so we hiked down to a spot he knew of with this really cool broken down bridge. I don't know if it was the wading or the hike but my summer flip flops are toast. And it's officially fall so it seems poetic somehow.

I've haven't really looked at the pictures we got. I'm too tired but I thought I'd share one.

WANTED: One bodyguard

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: In an effort to promote community industry and defeat unemployment once and for all, I have decided to share the occasional want ad of a qualified individual looking for work.

There is a hand lettered sign hanging from an oak tree outside my house advertising the services of auctions, delivery service, spy, and body guard.

Knowing how when one needs a body guard one is truly desperate for said body guard. So if you are looking for a 4' (barely) 50 lb. body guard in the form of a very skinny little girl who has never had martial arts training, give me a call. I have the person for you. I mean look at her picture. I am scared, aren't you?

LOST: One homing pigeon

What is it with me and animals? Although I don't enjoy unexpected animals, I seem to be attracting them right and left.

Last Wednesday I came home after dark from a late running portrait session. Just as I signal to turn into the driveway, I spot something. Yes, the illusive something.  In fact, it's a group of somethings. As my eyes try to separate the bundles of somethings, I start to discern black and white spots. Finally, one of them looks at me head on. It is a herd of 3 or 4 holstein cows. They are right my my mailbox near a soybean field. Big Cow and I stare each other down for a minute. I guess I won, or rather my unblinking headlights won because they turns and bounded off into the soybean field never to be seen again. It was kind of like Pepe LaPew they way the bounced off. Surprisingly agile and graceful for such large creatures.

Then on Thursday, well before sundown, I saw an owl perched on a fence post. Naturally I quickly searched the skies for shooting stars, sparks or flying ford anglias because I mean, you never know! But no, just one lonely owl.

The funniest was on Labor Day. This homeing pigeon shows up. It lands on the RV and just hangs around. And hangs around. And hangs around. We thought it might just be "resting" on a long trip. It had two legs bands, but we couldn't get close enough to read them, but yesterday at noon time it was still here! Just hanging around the driveway or in the oak right by the drive. We didn't see it last night at suppertime, but it could have been in the tree. So if any of you have lost your homeing pigeon, we found him. He's here! Oh the irony!

FYI, these unplanned animals weren't so bad since they were all OUTSIDE where they belong!