My feet take me to all sorts of places – but more often than not – at least during the week, they take me to work. And since today is Halloween – they take me to work in a costume that includes wearing flip flops – it’s all about knowing how to work the system! So to represent – work – thought I would capture one of the computers in my classroom with my email displayed because I know how much my friend Jan loves lots of messages in the Inbox! J
So many opportunities – and one of my favorite subjects – as is evidenced by my nickname of the flora and fauna girl – I like it. This opportunity presented itself pretty quickly in the day, though when Miss Rachel came into a church meeting I was in with this beautiful bouquet of flowers – it’s her 13th birthday – I just had to snap a shot of them – especially since they include one of my favorites – Gerber daisies!
Another topic that could include just about anything – but got the idea for this one since I was going to a Halloween party and knew that the house would be all decked out for the holiday – just wait until Christmas! At Christmas there are so many lights that we joke about it being a landing strip for small planes! Again – I digress… So I stood across the street and took a picture of the house.
There are so many things that could be close-up – including the toothpaste – or do they still make that toothpaste – I use Colgate, so I wouldn’t know – but I just remember the adds when I was younger of these really attractive couples kissing after they had used the toothpaste. Anywho – back to the picture. I was sitting on the couch and trying to decide what to take and I saw my pink flamingo outside and thought – that’s what I want – and it turned out much better than I though it would – I especially like the unfocused background – just some fun.
While at work – I kept trying to think of something fun I was doing – but just wasn’t feeling it there. But Thursday night is Bells night and what fun we have playing Bells. My friend Amy has been helping me out down in Heavy Metal with ‘the Big Girls’ and we just have a blast – I probably should have gotten her in this picture – but here I am with my biggest girl – Clara – low C!
Something that I am pretty proud of that I made years ago was this stained glass window… A friend wanted to take the class and invited me along – I’ve picked up quite a few skills this way. This has to be one of my all time favorites – although I use the cake decorating skills more often. I was just so proud of myself for the composition on the tulips and the rain looking glass – of course it would be even better if I were to hang it near the window. For now, though, it sits in the hallway being enjoyed just as much!
I had a different idea today from what I ended up with. I originally had thought of not using my body at all in the self portrait – I would somehow show a heart bursting with love – love of God and love of all my friends that have loved and supported me – especially during all the difficult times with my mom. Was struggling a bit with the execution of the idea when I came up with another one.
There were multiple pictures of various subjects that were considered for today. The first was the worker’s comp like pile of cords under one of the desks at work connecting the instructor computer to the projector to the sound system! Then there was the back of two of the computers at work. At one point I took a picture of the VHS player we still have for use in one of the classrooms. The winner however was what I found in the stock room… Sitting there in all it’s glory a still wrapped up cassette tape! It made me laugh – and all I could think was – this is it!
I originally thought that today would be full of potential for something new – especially when we were at Disneyland and we thought we would be riding the Pirate Ship Columbia. That would definitely be new – one of the few – if not only rides I have never been on! But the ship was retiring for the evening so we ended up on the Mark Twain – our original destination. Afternoon led into evening and I still hadn’t found anything – then when we talked about going to Pinkberry for yogurt – though – Pumpkin flavor is new this week – I’ll get a picture of that – but finished before I remembered! Then I’m sitting at home think – new – new – new… hmmm… and think of a new adventure I will starting in January – seminary! So I found my congrats letter and used that… that is my story and I’m sticking to it!
So I took the train up to Thousand Oaks today and as I was on the train, I saw Dodger Stadium and thought – what a great memory of going to Dodger Games as a kid – especially with church friends and Arnold – our resident Dodger Fan at church – but didn’t get a pic of that. And then as we continued out of LA – I thought for a moment that we might travel through South Pasadena and that would really give me a childhood memory picture – but that didn’t work out either… finally toward the end of the day, Jan and I ended up at the beach with a playground – and the moment we saw it – I realized what my memory was – the swings – I have such fond memories of swinging at Garfield Park in South Pasadena – so it was a bit of a no brainer!
Instead of just someone I love – thought I would take a picture representing lots of people I love – with my mom there in the center. Although she is no longer here on earth – her spirit lives on through me. I am amazingly blessed by my friends that support and love me – most of whom have done the Memory Walk with me. And of course most of those peeps that I love have done all these events! And to round out the picture is Little Miss Sadie – I had originally taken the pic without her but wanted her there somehow – so when she started to walk into the picture – it just really worked for me.
Hopefully it is obvious what my favorite color is – I wore multiple shades of green on this day in anticipation that I would photograph them for this assignment. I was in class and told the class to wear green and I would photograph them but they didn’t. What I enjoy most about this picture is getting my socks in it! All about the fun socks!
Today was quite the foggy day – not a lot of ‘traditional clouds’. So while my screen saver was cycling through at work – I noticed a picture from Hawaii where the clouds were mirrored in my sunglasses – hence this picture was born. It was a bit difficult to get a decent picture without the lines of the refresh rate on the computer showing up – but with a bit of persistence – I got this – palm tree and all.
I kinda’ cheated on this one – although I don’t actually pet the cat everyday – I do when I’m home, of course, but on occasion I do have to go out of town… I do think of her every day – and I have a ring to remind me of how much I am loved and not only by God.
Day One is a self portrait. As I feel it is one of my best features - I wanted to highlight my eyes - green - not that common. My original idea was to highlight my dimple and my eyes - but I just couldn't get it looking the way I wanted - so I came up with this photo.