15 posts tagged “yellow”
I love the feeling I get when under the branches of maple trees lately. It feels like a different world, casting a yellow hue on everything.
I am feeling really sleepy and nothing is coming to mind to say. I got a new pillow, a buckwheat pillow, so it will take a little time to get used to it. Have been having some sleeping problems for well over a week now. I go to sleep fine but wake up in the middle somewhere and can't get to sleep. Strange dreams are perplexing me. My head is all mixed up, can't really think straight, or crooked for that matter.
to do list for today
*upload photos from nieces birthday party
*buy a couple months unlimited classes for yoga studio and sign up for workshops
*dishes
*nap
*autumn walk in the rare sunshine, maybe the unreal colors of the leaves will wake me up a bit
So cool and wet, there was a part of me that wanted to drink up the fresh rain water. It smelled so sweet and fresh outside. These are my poppies I just bought at the hardware store. Lovely little things.
Did I tell you all that I sold some prints? A woman e-mailed me after seeing my photos on Flickr. She chose 4 black and whites. I got them printed and she just got them yesterday. She was very happy with them. She described the photos exactly how I would, she wrote me an e-mail yesterday telling me she had received them. She made the whole transaction so easy and pleasant. I am SO grateful for her, she helped me open a door I was afraid to open.
Tonight I am meeting with bunches of local photographers and I am going to learn about lighting and portrait work from them. They just don't know it yet, that they are going to be my teachers tonight. Haha! I may model as well, but I really want to watch and learn.
I had this crazy idea, to incorporate my preschool education and photography. I think It might just work.
If anyone would like to buy a print please check out my Flickr page and send me a message.
(thank you WrightBrained for the gentle pushes I need to get going)
I layered my clothes as much as I could. It was chilly yesterday. The sun was warm though.
I went to my favorite antique store where they gave me a large scrapbook from 1935 with hundreds of pages filled with newspaper clippings about the Dion Quintuplets. They were an oddity back then, for a woman to have 5 babies, and lived through it as well as the babies. The children were basically taken away from the parents by the Doctor who said they needed constant supervision. He made them a sideshow attraction. People drove from all over to watch them play, eat, sleep, and cry. This is how these girls were raised. Reality TV before TV. I saw a documentary about them and interviews with three of the girls. They talked about how hard it was to be raised by nurses rather than parents. Who by the way never saw a penny from the sideshow racket. They were eventually not allowed to even view the children from the visitors area.
Sad.
It always surprises me to see the flowers still blooming this late in the season. It sends waves of delight through my cold body to see bright yellow roses against a brown decaying flowerbed. Like a little gift from the sun that was in a major battle against the fog and clouds of autumn. It is a losing battle for the sun this time of year.
So to you my lovely neighbors, I offer to share my tiny gifts from the sun.
We had a wind storm roll through the area yesterday, a few trees went down in my area and school let out early which my nephew was thrilled about. A tree fell on his street so I got some free wood for next year to keep me warm. So before the wind came in I went to the backyard and snapped some pictures. I was in my slippers and snowman pajamas. Tip toeing around huge mushrooms. I took several pictures of my monkey tree.
Then this morning it poured so hard I thought the roof would give in, then as fast as it started it stopped. The sun came out, I decided to shed the ducky pajamas and take a quick walk before it gets nasty again. It was so fresh out there, all of the trees that were so full of beautiful red and orange leaves were almost all bare. Some completely bare. All leaves stripped of leaves within a 24 hour period. The sidewalks full of leaves, drains clogged. I kicked them around a bit, then it started to cloud over again. I came home, heated up some water and had a cup of blackberry sage tea with a bit of honey harvested near my home. So, here are some photos I took.
