I took Little Pink Camera out looking for textures.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Celebrate Earth Day
When you live in the wilderness there's not much to see except, well....wilderness!! Mother Nature makes some of the prettiest things, doesn't She? So, in celebration of Earth Day I offer up a selection of some of Her creations. Take the time to plant a seed or encourage something pretty to grow in your life!!
Thursday, April 26, 2012
On Living Alone......
Living alone has it's ups and downs. The ups......
No one is ever in a hurry for dinner, except maybe the cats.
No one ever complains when I leave my shoes under the table.
No one hogs the covers.
I don't have to share anything, except with the cats. They always want to share my dinner....and the warm spots. But, that's the nature of a cat. Golly, that's almost enough to make me sound like a crazy cat lady, isn't it? But, I'm not. I only have four of them. The fifth one belongs to Katie so I don't count her in with the pack. Holly and Katie make their own pack, and pacts as well, I think.
But, the downs of living alone are just as numerous.
There is no one to help with the hard chores. I greatly dislike having to carry in wood all by myself. Katie provides moral support, but even that is tiny. Katie is rather small herself, ya know.
There's no one to share my day with. Katie also listens, but her feedback is nil. She doesn't have much of an opinion one way or the other.
I suppose it all evens out and I have discovered during the long, cold winter that I really like being alone. I've had the chance to learn what I really like, what I really want, without having to take into consideration other's want or needs. I find that I have more time to devote to the things I really want to do.
I've been trying to improve my photography skills and I think I do pretty darned good, considering the camera I have to work with. Little Pink Camera got to go on vacation to Chicago while I had to stay at home, but she brought back lots of photos of the Big City. Katie and I decided that we really like living out here in the country after all and if it means we have to be the ones to carry the wood in by ourselves, then so be it.
In my efforts with Little Pink Camera, I find myself challenged by those who have really, really nice cameras that can photograph a flea on a bear's nose from a mile away. How can I compete with National Geographic caliber photographers? I can't, so I don't. But, it still inspires me to try harder, photograph more and look for the interesting shots in odd places. As if I don't do that already.
Spring has moved at a very rapid pace this year. Flowers that normally don't bloom until May or June are already in bloom and some are already gone. I've planted seeds for many different flowers and they are beginning to poke their tiny heads out of the ground. Soon I expect my gardens to be full of glorious patches of color.
The vegetable garden is coming together and I am looking forward to fresh tomatoes and green beans. I'm not much on gardening because I greatly dislike putting so much effort into feeding the deer and turtles, but I have friends that don't have garden space so I'm having a communal garden this year.
So, I suppose living alone is not so bad. I can go spend the day outdoors with Katie, with friends, by myself. I can be the one that picks the freshest beans and I can eat them all! I'll be the one that has the first tomato, but I won't have to be the only one pulling weeds. I have the best of both worlds and who could ask for more??
No one is ever in a hurry for dinner, except maybe the cats.
No one ever complains when I leave my shoes under the table.
No one hogs the covers.
I don't have to share anything, except with the cats. They always want to share my dinner....and the warm spots. But, that's the nature of a cat. Golly, that's almost enough to make me sound like a crazy cat lady, isn't it? But, I'm not. I only have four of them. The fifth one belongs to Katie so I don't count her in with the pack. Holly and Katie make their own pack, and pacts as well, I think.
But, the downs of living alone are just as numerous.
There is no one to help with the hard chores. I greatly dislike having to carry in wood all by myself. Katie provides moral support, but even that is tiny. Katie is rather small herself, ya know.
There's no one to share my day with. Katie also listens, but her feedback is nil. She doesn't have much of an opinion one way or the other.
I suppose it all evens out and I have discovered during the long, cold winter that I really like being alone. I've had the chance to learn what I really like, what I really want, without having to take into consideration other's want or needs. I find that I have more time to devote to the things I really want to do.
I've been trying to improve my photography skills and I think I do pretty darned good, considering the camera I have to work with. Little Pink Camera got to go on vacation to Chicago while I had to stay at home, but she brought back lots of photos of the Big City. Katie and I decided that we really like living out here in the country after all and if it means we have to be the ones to carry the wood in by ourselves, then so be it.
In my efforts with Little Pink Camera, I find myself challenged by those who have really, really nice cameras that can photograph a flea on a bear's nose from a mile away. How can I compete with National Geographic caliber photographers? I can't, so I don't. But, it still inspires me to try harder, photograph more and look for the interesting shots in odd places. As if I don't do that already.
Spring has moved at a very rapid pace this year. Flowers that normally don't bloom until May or June are already in bloom and some are already gone. I've planted seeds for many different flowers and they are beginning to poke their tiny heads out of the ground. Soon I expect my gardens to be full of glorious patches of color.
The vegetable garden is coming together and I am looking forward to fresh tomatoes and green beans. I'm not much on gardening because I greatly dislike putting so much effort into feeding the deer and turtles, but I have friends that don't have garden space so I'm having a communal garden this year.
So, I suppose living alone is not so bad. I can go spend the day outdoors with Katie, with friends, by myself. I can be the one that picks the freshest beans and I can eat them all! I'll be the one that has the first tomato, but I won't have to be the only one pulling weeds. I have the best of both worlds and who could ask for more??
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
On Recuperation.....
Hello everyone...all five of you. Boy, am I ever going to get rich with the monetizing of this blog!!! Spring, as I am certain most of you have noticed, is happening all at once, all over the country. It's been hard to keep up with everything blooming, but I offer up a couple of really nice blossoms I found recently.
I know the pink one is a peach but the white one...???? It was just beautiful and I stopped for a few minutes ....just to sniff the proverbial roses. Mmmmmmmm......
It's good to be back, although technology is not all it's cracked up to be. Recovering confuser has been a long process and I send an especial thanks and kudos to my guru girl Jeannie for all the help she gives when I have confuser issues. Without her I'd be wandering in the dark.
I have a couple of projects in the wings. They have been waiting patiently until my computer returned from the hospital. Now that everything is almost back to normal .....but then again....what's normal????
Around this crazy place, anything goes....except me. I just want to sit in the sunshine and enjoy Mother Nature at her finest. But, at least I can take the camera and make it look like I'm busy. Much easier than digging in the dirt, but as soon as those seedling grow, I'll be showing you some more beautiful blossoms.
It's good to be back, although technology is not all it's cracked up to be. Recovering confuser has been a long process and I send an especial thanks and kudos to my guru girl Jeannie for all the help she gives when I have confuser issues. Without her I'd be wandering in the dark.
I have a couple of projects in the wings. They have been waiting patiently until my computer returned from the hospital. Now that everything is almost back to normal .....but then again....what's normal????
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Living Without Technology
I love my little slice of heaven, but nobody else seems to care about it, except for a few fishermen and hunters and that's a seasonal sort of thing. Most of the time the only company Katie Rose and I have are the birds and the deer and a bear. It means that technology hasn't reached this far and probably won't for another twenty or thirty years. I've lived in this neck of the woods for a long time and I haven't witnessed much improvement over the years. High speed internet isn't available where I live and it's a questionable thing, as well, to have satellite television.
But, that really doesn't make a lot of difference to me anyway because I don't even own a television. This causes issues sometimes when my friends are trying to tell me about something that happened on their favorite show and I have absolutely no idea what they are talking about in the first place. It makes keeping up with world issues and news pretty hard too. I do have radio and the homepage of Yahoo to keep me abreast of some of the most important things, but there are things that still escape my notice
I'd like to have all the modern conveniences, but where I live, storms and acts of God can make the telephone and electricity services go down for days and days. When I moved recently and had to have my phone service changed, the guy who was doing that had to call three times to be able to find this place. Even GPS has trouble finding me!
Then, as if I hadn't had to deal with enough troubles moving, my computer,(fondly known as 'confuser') decided to have a major breakdown and I discovered that, even though my technology is limited, I'm really rather spoiled as far as my computer is concerned. I have an ancient dinosaur computer right now while I wait for mine to be repaired and I'm here to tell you ...... this is for the birds!!!
It can't handle more than one thing at a time and I have to wait for forever to get a page loaded. It doesn't even have enough ports on it to handle my printer or my camera. Downloading music is a thing of the past and surfing the web??!!.... well, I could take a nap sometimes while I wait for a site to get loaded. It takes me fifteen minutes or more just to get to my in-box to check my mail!!
Some of my friends who live in larger cities will try to tell me I should get this service or try that. What they don't understand is that when they pass a certain point on their way here, they have entered no man's land and technology just doesn't exist here. Satellite service for television and internet is available, but the forest is thick, trees and mountains are in the way and sometimes, like here in my little valley, the mountain blocks the signals for half the day. One of my neighbors, in an effort to have television, cut down four very tall trees and all he has now is a lot of firewood for the winter. The service people didn't realize that the hill behind his house was still going to block the satellite even after the trees were down. Line of sight to a satellite is pretty important and a mountain tends to block that line very efficiently.
But, as far as Katie Rose and I are concerned, we don't care. Usually. We have a fireplace for cooking and heat when the electricity goes out. I have gravity-fed water so I don't need the pumps. I don't watch television so I won't be missing my favorite shows and I never complain that with a thousand channels, there's still nothing on TV to watch. The President's speeches never irritate me nor do the antics of actors like Lindsey Lohan or Charlie Sheen.
What does annoy me is that I can't add photography to my blog. I can't download music. I can't.....and can't never could, but sometimes you just have to learn to live with your limitations and make the best of it. That means that Katie and I will go for a walk, we'll spend time with friends and family and have quality time together. I'll make a batch of brownies and share them with my neighbor who keeps leaving bags of vegetables hanging on my doorknob. I'll have the time to sew a few more quilt pieces together or draw another picture to add to my site or take a few more photos in preparation of the day when my nice fancy, modern computer is fixed. (I can't wait!!!)
But until then, I am pulling my hair and screaming obscenities at my computer screen. I'm going to discover just how many pictures my camera will hold before it says 'no more'. And one of these days, I will introduce you to Katie Rose and Holly. I'm thinking about making Katie Rose her own Facebook page, but not today. Today, I'm going to complain about the lack of technology in my life, pack some lunch and go sit on the creek bank and watch the water flow by. I will remind myself how water is the strongest force ever and that I, too, should learn to go with the flow. But, sometimes I do feel like a leaf that gets caught in the swirls and eddies, like the boulder sitting in the middle of the path, like the grains of sand that get swept away.
All lessons that can stand me in good stead if I just let them. Personal growth is the hardest part of life. Technology is nice, but I can live without it to a certain extent. In the meantime, I'll find some other thing to do that will maybe make me a better person and technology won't have a thing to do with it.
But, that really doesn't make a lot of difference to me anyway because I don't even own a television. This causes issues sometimes when my friends are trying to tell me about something that happened on their favorite show and I have absolutely no idea what they are talking about in the first place. It makes keeping up with world issues and news pretty hard too. I do have radio and the homepage of Yahoo to keep me abreast of some of the most important things, but there are things that still escape my notice
I'd like to have all the modern conveniences, but where I live, storms and acts of God can make the telephone and electricity services go down for days and days. When I moved recently and had to have my phone service changed, the guy who was doing that had to call three times to be able to find this place. Even GPS has trouble finding me!
Then, as if I hadn't had to deal with enough troubles moving, my computer,(fondly known as 'confuser') decided to have a major breakdown and I discovered that, even though my technology is limited, I'm really rather spoiled as far as my computer is concerned. I have an ancient dinosaur computer right now while I wait for mine to be repaired and I'm here to tell you ...... this is for the birds!!!
It can't handle more than one thing at a time and I have to wait for forever to get a page loaded. It doesn't even have enough ports on it to handle my printer or my camera. Downloading music is a thing of the past and surfing the web??!!.... well, I could take a nap sometimes while I wait for a site to get loaded. It takes me fifteen minutes or more just to get to my in-box to check my mail!!
Some of my friends who live in larger cities will try to tell me I should get this service or try that. What they don't understand is that when they pass a certain point on their way here, they have entered no man's land and technology just doesn't exist here. Satellite service for television and internet is available, but the forest is thick, trees and mountains are in the way and sometimes, like here in my little valley, the mountain blocks the signals for half the day. One of my neighbors, in an effort to have television, cut down four very tall trees and all he has now is a lot of firewood for the winter. The service people didn't realize that the hill behind his house was still going to block the satellite even after the trees were down. Line of sight to a satellite is pretty important and a mountain tends to block that line very efficiently.
But, as far as Katie Rose and I are concerned, we don't care. Usually. We have a fireplace for cooking and heat when the electricity goes out. I have gravity-fed water so I don't need the pumps. I don't watch television so I won't be missing my favorite shows and I never complain that with a thousand channels, there's still nothing on TV to watch. The President's speeches never irritate me nor do the antics of actors like Lindsey Lohan or Charlie Sheen.
What does annoy me is that I can't add photography to my blog. I can't download music. I can't.....and can't never could, but sometimes you just have to learn to live with your limitations and make the best of it. That means that Katie and I will go for a walk, we'll spend time with friends and family and have quality time together. I'll make a batch of brownies and share them with my neighbor who keeps leaving bags of vegetables hanging on my doorknob. I'll have the time to sew a few more quilt pieces together or draw another picture to add to my site or take a few more photos in preparation of the day when my nice fancy, modern computer is fixed. (I can't wait!!!)
But until then, I am pulling my hair and screaming obscenities at my computer screen. I'm going to discover just how many pictures my camera will hold before it says 'no more'. And one of these days, I will introduce you to Katie Rose and Holly. I'm thinking about making Katie Rose her own Facebook page, but not today. Today, I'm going to complain about the lack of technology in my life, pack some lunch and go sit on the creek bank and watch the water flow by. I will remind myself how water is the strongest force ever and that I, too, should learn to go with the flow. But, sometimes I do feel like a leaf that gets caught in the swirls and eddies, like the boulder sitting in the middle of the path, like the grains of sand that get swept away.
All lessons that can stand me in good stead if I just let them. Personal growth is the hardest part of life. Technology is nice, but I can live without it to a certain extent. In the meantime, I'll find some other thing to do that will maybe make me a better person and technology won't have a thing to do with it.
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