“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

So...

Not so sure that I'm thrilled about this "move" we're making at work.  I'm happy Spencer will be on my shift and now that I've seen the new digs, I can say the office is at least twice as large....but...you know....CHANGE.  Blah.

Suck it up, Buttercup.  I've survived worse, I'm sure.

Well...onto the photo array.  This is the last batch from that one day back in January, 2018 - I was a maniac that day!  (And I must have been obsessed with my gym locker...I'm insane.)

Chuck and I need to get out more.  Hopefully, Spring Grove Cemetery will again be completely open to the public soon.  And there are so many photo opportunities coming from our new location...I hope.

I'm not sure why, but I kinda fancy all of the graininess in these photos. 

Enjoy.

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
~Erica Jong 

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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” ~Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

Ok...

(I've been extra crabby lately...rain, rain and more rain, shoulder pain, knee pain, no sleep, big changes coming at work, lack of sunshine...blah, blah, blah.)

So, here's more of my nightcrawling photos....

Enjoy.

“Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again. Five or six in the morning, there’s hope, for dawn’s just under the horizon. But three, now, Christ, three A.M.! Doctors say the body’s at low tide then. The soul is out. The blood moves slow. You’re the nearest to dead you’ll ever be save dying. Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had strength to rouse up, you’d slaughter your half-dreams with buckshot! But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that’s burned dry. The moon rolls by to look at you down there, with its idiot face. It’s a long way back to sunset, a far way on to dawn, so you summon all the fool things of your life, the stupid lovely things done with people known so very well who are now so very dead – And wasn’t it true, had he read somewhere, more people in hospitals die at 3 A.M. than at any other time...”

~Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” ~Mark Twain

Well....

I GREW A TOMATO!!!

Okay, okay...it's a cherry tomato...and it's only about 1/4in. wide...but I GREW IT!  The first of my crop!

I'm excited...can you tell?  Farmer Anna.  (I need some bibs 😀🍅!)

Enjoy.

“Three tomatoes are walking down the street - a papa tomato, a mama tomato and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Papa tomato get angry, goes over to Baby tomato and squishes him.....and says 'Ketchup!’"
~Uma Thurman in 'Pulp Fiction' (1994)

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

So...

Regarding yesterday's post...I posted my masked selfie on my other Social Networking sites and who woulda thunk it....some people are PISSED about even the "recommendation" that we wear masks in public.

For real?

Some asshole called me Hitler!  Buh-bye and blocked.

Well...today, I'll try not to be so controversial - don't need anybody getting butt-hurt. 

Here are more of my night ramblings.

Enjoy.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.     

~Epictetus

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“A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.” ~Proverbs 22:3

So....

This is the new norm.

*I will never, ever complain about wearing a mask if there is even one iota of a chance it will keep my family safe.

I fail to see the difficulty.

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” 
~Mark Twain

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" We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." ~Dolly Parton

So....

In reviewing my external hard drive, I have discovered a disturbing trend.  I have hundreds (and hundreds) of photos that I haven't edited or processed. 

Sad.

Well, here is my first installation from January 25, 2018.  I must have been walking around work taking shadow and light photos.  Creepy, vampire, night-walker stuff.  The usual.

Enjoy.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

 

~Camille Pissarro

“Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields… Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.” ~Mary Oliver

So....

I haven't freaking posted anything since October 19, 2019 (or thereabouts).  What a loser. 😀

Some things going on these days....

• I'm now walking with my cane on a permanent basis...more of a pacifier (terrified of falling - again).  Sucks getting old.
• I have a torn rotator cuff - which also happens to be the arm I carry my cane.  REALLY sucks getting old.
• Chuck got a new lens!!  Well, a replacement 18-135mm but with an upgrade.  It's phenomenal!
• I found a (hopefully original) Georges Braque pochoir at auction - for $6.00!  I haven't been able to have it evaluated yet.
• Switched to cactus plants - since I murdered all the other ones I had.
• Started my Victory Garden - tomatoes, peppers and potatoes.
• Turned 57 (YIKES!!) the other day.
• Still working 6 days a week - I'm essential 😁 (at least here).
• In the past week I've seen three deer, a rabbit, a cat and a TURKEY on camera while at work.  The turkey visits the front porch every day and the rabbit hops around the yard every night.
• I'm super crabby - Spencer is right.  Wearing a mask and breathing in all of this carbon dioxide seems to make you angry - not that I need much help in that area, but it's exhausting.

Can't think of much else....

Oh yeah...the freaking Pandemic!  Not to get political but, Holy Shit, this administration has the blood of 86,541 victims (as of right this moment) on their hands.  And according to the Scientists and Epidemiologists, shit's gonna get worse.  I'm terrified.  So much shit is going on.  Let's hope that death toll doesn't reach into the millions - even one death is too many.

Well, let me post my photos I worked on tonight.  The first 3 are from Thanksgiving - SIX MONTHS AGO.  Geez.  They were taken with my 50mm lens.  The rest were taken with the new lens.  HOPEFULLY, I'll be able to get out and take some photos soon.  Even Spring Grove Cemetery is closed.

Enjoy.

“You may not always have a comfortable life. And you will not always be able to solve all the world’s problems all at once. But don’t ever underestimate the impact you can have, because history has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own.” 

~Michelle Obama