Don't ask and I won't tell you a long, boring story about this photomorph ("The Hidden Dance of the Snail" [7-9-09 3580e[4]). In fact, I'm not even sure I know what it is. I'll simply add that I had fun fussing at this old, old photo of mine. Old, old, ...
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THE HIDDEN DANCE OF THE SNAIL and more


THE HIDDEN DANCE OF THE SNAIL

Don't ask and I won't tell you a long, boring story about this photomorph ("The Hidden Dance of the Snail" [7-9-09 3580e[4]). In fact, I'm not even sure I know what it is. I'll simply add that I had fun fussing at this old, old photo of mine. Old, old, and slowly morphed ... like I've been. 😊 Seriously, it was taken in 2009. I've made many versions of it and have deleted many others along the way. Where this original pic (like others I have) is ever so slowly going is certainly unknown. But I do enjoy the trips it takes me on when I come across it again. This photomorph I'm afraid, though, only earns a meh vote from me. That's OK. Especially if one recalls the saying that "The journey is the goal."

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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,





[aka: Patricia Kelly] **** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or photos, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”) ****

   


DIPPING A TOE IN

"Dipping A Toe In" (12-23-14 001v3[3]) was just tortured into this form from a much older version of the six year old original pic of mine. I haven't been over to this area of our retirement community's grounds in quite some time. And stumbling across the several versions I have of this old pic, has reminded me to hie that way occasionally. BTW, to the far left of this pic are gardens our residents (for the most part) plant and tend. And in the fall, some gorgeous red leafed trees appear here, as if by a miracle. At least that's what it felt like to me the first time after I'd moved here from New York City. What!? -- I thought -- fall trees in California? But back to this pic. I don't even know if this wonderful stag horn plant is still there. And I've not been paying much attention to those fabulous architecture shadows that get cast near day's end. I must admit, some of this has to do with (whining alert) not having a good pic editing program. It leaves me less inclined to take pix if I can't work on them as I want to. This blog has suffered directly due to this: I just don't feel I'm able to produce pix I want to showcase here without my old Photoshop program. Sigh, that sounds suspiciously like how I feel about my life in general for some time now. I'm old and less able (in too many ways) to do what I most want and am used to being able to do. Ah well, today I dip my toe back into this blog with a slightly satisfying new version of an old pic.

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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,





[aka: Patricia Kelly] **** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or photos, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”) ****
   


WOLF MOON


"Wolf Moon" (Archival 5-25-09 1726v13f[2]) is a slight re-working today of one of my oldest pix, taken in 2009. I'm not even sure it was originally a moon shot. It's rare that I can't recall the original scene beneath some massive editing of a pic that I've done. But the results are certainly suggestive of a full moon. BTW, the moon out there in our sky now is the yearly wintertime Wolf Moon. As to my failing memory in this instance? Note I said it's "rare" that I can't recall ... :-) I will only add that back in those days I was a total newbie to photography, not to mention quite determined to get some good full moon pix. Which I kept trying to do for some time (and even still try to do occasionally these days) with little to no success. So there's a good chance a full moon lies beneath this pic.

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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,





[aka: Patricia Kelly] **** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or photos, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”) ****
   


THE MIRROR BUTTS IN

"The Mirror Butts In" (11-2-17 011v9c) is a much fudged with selfie in my 2017 Halloween costume, Spider Old Woman. This posting acknowledges the passing of yet another year and the arrival (Jan. 4) of yet another birthday of mine (my 76th). I wonder what I'll manage to weave out of this year's bounty. And bounty it will be. It always is. One just can't know what that bounty will consist of. :-) And it's not been the most auspicious beginning to 2020 as I've been rather sick the past few days. But why does today necessarily have to predict tomorrow? In fact, it rarely does. "Life has a way of happening while we make other plans." So ole spider woman self will go on spinning her fantastical plans and the world will keep spinning its endless variety of surprises.

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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,





[aka: Patricia Kelly] **** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or photos, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”) ****
   


From my Dreams & Poetry blog post of today: an old photo, an old dream haiku with new comments, and fresh HAPPY NEW YEAR WISHES!


finished basement
I do better than before
on the climb back up


[dream haiku, written in January of 2008 (re-posted 12-31-19). Another from that stash of old dream haiku/monoku I am considering for re-posting. It hits me just now that it’s probably appropriate at year’s end to be going through the last of my three old, hand-written notebooks of dream haiku. As I’ve said here before, the books are truly old, some of the source dreams going back to the 1990’s and earlier. There’s always that looking back this time of year. But what I find interesting is that many of these old dream/poems were more predictive of my future than I recognized. Enough to give me goosebumps, every so often as I read. And I’ve been long accustomed to having the occasional “psychic” moment, sometimes in dreams. But it’s eerie to find them in retrospect. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this could simply be a matter of “self-fulfilling prophecy.” I.e., I may not have seen a particular dream as predictive at the time. But just the act of writing about it years ago, put the possibility of manifesting it in the back of my mind. I hasten to add, though, one could say that about anything we think/do/observe. All of life is deeply suggestive. Who’s really to know the source(s) of anything, ultimately? Maybe this is what is at the heart of that assertion that “Everything is one.” Just try to identify, much less untangle all the contributing causative events in which we're embedded. 😊 Anyway, back to today’s re-post: I think it’s a nice bit of positivity to end this year with. Which leads me to: HAPPY NEW YEAR, ONE & ALL! Photo “What Lies Beneath” (Archival Old Pix-2, 12718) by Roswila; BTW, this pic is of the guts of the only elevator we have on our retirement community grounds, given the heavy use it gets (as much for freight/furniture, etc. as people with walkers and shopping carts) it's amazing its motor has only been replaced once in the 12 years I've been living here)]

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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,





[aka: Patricia Kelly] **** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or photos, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”) ****
   


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