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Sep 172011
1. No matter how hard you try, you cannot baptize cats.
2. When your mom is mad at your dad, don’t let her brush your hair.
3. If you sister hits you, don’t hit her back. They always catch the
second person.
4. Never ask your 3-year-old brother to hold a tomato.
5. You can’t trust dogs to watch your food.
6. Reading what people write on desks can teach you a lot.
7. Don’t sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.
8. Puppies still have bad breath even after eating a tic tac.
9. Never hold a dustbuster and a cat at the same time.
10. School lunches stick to the wall.
11. You can’t hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
12. Don’t wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.
13. The best place to be when you are sad is in Grandma’s lap.
Feb 262011
I can’t begin to improve upon this, so I’m just going to post it.
Sep 222010
Sep 172010
It’s hard not to fall in love with a fuzzy little feather ball who loves to take a bath in the nude.
Ok — so it’s just a little Puffin — but they are so cute!
Sep 142010
I did a little cat-sitting during our family’s recent vacation. While the junior members of the family were gone I was doing cat portraits!
What is more the essence of a cat than it’s whiskers? And how do you epitomize the nature of the stealthy feline?
I decided that this was the approach I wanted.
Feb 122010
Sometimes you’re just too tired to even raise your head
Jul 152009
“To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.”
Claude Monet
Monet had a point.
There are images that are beautiful because the subject is beautiful. It ought not be too hard to realize that is an easy thing to accomplish. Bringing beauty, or gravity, humor or harmony to something quite ordinary is not always so easy. And many are the times that we do not even SEE some of the beauties around us.
A humble junked tank bears the resemblance of an alien face. (see prior entry) And the underside of a leaf carries its own little colony of life. Being willing to see the unseen, the common, the everyday requires that you forget what you are looking at, forget your impressions, forget your definitions — and simply observe what exists.
Whether we respond to that photographically, or through some “style” of art is of little consequence as long as we DO respond.
May 182009
A quiet morning walk through Apache del Bosque.
You talkin' to me?
It’s fun when you come across a critter that really makes your heart stop. We weren’t all that far apart and we were both intent on your wandering. When I saw him I wasn’t really sure who had seen the other first, but we stood there just wondering about each other for what seemed a long while.
