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Shelly > February 18, 2009 Learning to Put Things in Perspective Here's another blast from the past. I have to give credit to my mother for digging this one out and scanning it for me after she saw the ballerina picture last week. All I did was replace the white border. http://spccreative.smugmug.com/gallery/6974854_W6tQH#472316451_Hvwhd This is a result of one of my favorite childhood photography lessons ever. I may have been 9 or 10 when we did this. My dad took me and my brothers out in the yard to teach us "trick photography." I'm sure he didn't use words like ratio or perspective. He simplified the concept and showed us how to make it work. The upturned water sprinkler by Brian's feet was probably placed as a marker so he would know where to stand. (note the loop in the hose that goes around his feet) We took photos of each other as giants crushing cars with our feet, stepping on the roof of the house and stepping on each others' heads, but this is probably my favorite. That's my youngest brother up close holding Clayton (middle child) in the palm of his hand. Special thanks to Clay who did a little google search and determined that the camera we used was a Diana F-Series model. It was probably the best $1.50 or so my mother ever spent in 1965. Thanks Mom! "We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. " Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
Shelly > April 9, 2009 It takes a Travelin' Smugger to get the Locals Together. John Murphy has been in Houston this week for a business conference, so my adorable twin sister, Karina, put together a meet up. It was another good excuse for me to stand in a chair in the middle of a busy restaurant . So . . .here they all are showing off their cameras after too much Spatzel, Schnitzel und Spaten at Rudi Lechner's last night. Mike Bustamante, John Murphy, Karina and Dave Boese. Dave -- you're a great sport. Fun night guys. Thanks for getting together. And a quote that echos part of our conversation last night . . . "No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want." -- Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
Shelly > June 20, 2008 This is NOT what they mean by water gardening! We had a little weather yesterday. A line of thunderstorms brought heavy winds and 1 and 1/4inches of much-needed rain within about 30 minutes. There was even a bit of hail -- something I thankfully haven't seen in a long time. We were protected from any serious damage, but I had to laugh when I found this four foot tall plumeria sitting upright, pot and all, in the bottom of the pool. No need to water this one today. "Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation." Kin Hubbard 1868-1930
Shelly > May 20, 2008 Sqiggles My little reptilian buddy from March 12 http://www.spccreative.com/popular/1/264947975_ngG2K#264947975_ngG2K came back to see me again. This time he was alone. We had a serious conversation where I told him he as welcome in my yard but that I would appreciate it if he didn't startle me so much every time he showed up. He responded and said that he'd play fair if I would, reminding me that he was more afraid of me than I was of him, "Yeah," I said. "I've heard that one before." "Well -- it's true," he told me. "By the way, would you please keep that Siamese Cat in the house? He's really scary." We left each other with an understanding -- We both know where the other lives and we both get a kick out of making the other jump. For a skinny guy, (no bigger around than my little finger) he sure is long. Had to be at least two feet or longer. For a citified country girl, I sure am -- you fill in the blank.
Shelly > January 21, 2009 An interesting day -- one that makes us appreciate our health. Hubby had surgery yesterday and they sent us home -- maybe a little too quickly. We were back in the ER by 6 am and should have gone sooner. After three different anti-nausea drugs and two bags of fluid, he seems better. Hope it holds! The angel in my day was the sweet little ER Housekeeper, Ellie who took time out of her morning to bring me coffee. She didn't need to do that. Thanks Ellie! "The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone." -- George Eliot
Shelly > November 21,2008 A Flower From My Friend -- and For My Friends Hope it brightens your day like it did mine. Happy weekend everyone!
Shelly > March 31, 2009 Ran out of Light So I left before the ball game ended to go home and have dinner with my family. So glad I turned around on the way to the car. "Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever-widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned, and to create something." -- Liz Carpenter
Shelly > January 6, 2000 Brooklyn Sunset I liked the Christmas decorations and the city in the BG -- even the red stoplight . . . Now that I've been there, I think I'll have to go back and re-read one of my favorite books from childhood, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." I read it again a few years ago and found it just as delightful as I did in fourth grade. It's a lovely story about a little girl growing up with her family in a Brooklyn Tenement around the turn of the century and was a number one best seller among our troops during WWII. The city has changed, but its history is still intact. And finally . . . here is my New York gallery -- Just a chronological memory of a fantastic trip. http://spccreative.smugmug.com/gallery/6979887_CZGD5#446719136_5SRCY
Shelly > October 1, 2008 Rubber Band Ball My grandparents used to have one of these in their kitchen. I suppose they frugally saved and reused every rubber band that held the Austin American Statesman together since the day rubber bands were first invented. Anyway, I loved to play with that funny little ball. If you bounced it, there was no telling which way it would go. Sometimes a band or two would fly off and land on the ground. We made up silly little games with that ball, and it could keep us entertained for a long time. I think all of my brothers and cousins have fond memories of it as well. I've made several of my own over the years, but none had the same magic that Meemaw and Papa's had. This one surfaced from the bottom of a junk drawer as we were moving things back into the kitchen this weekend, and it's been rolling around on the island ever since. The newspaper doesn't come with rubber bands anymore, but it does arrive in a plastic bag that's perfect for poop scooping whenever we walk the dog. Plastic bag balls just don't have the same appeal, but we try to reuse them just the same. "Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful." A. R. Ammons
May 20, 2008

Sqiggles

My little reptilian buddy from March 12 http://www.spccreative.com/popular/1/264947975_ngG2K#264947975_ngG2K came back to see me again. This time he was alone.

We had a serious conversation where I told him he as welcome in my yard but that I would appreciate it if he didn't startle me so much every time he showed up. He responded and said that he'd play fair if I would, reminding me that he was more afraid of me than I was of him,

"Yeah," I said. "I've heard that one before."

"Well -- it's true," he told me. "By the way, would you please keep that Siamese Cat in the house? He's really scary."

We left each other with an understanding -- We both know where the other lives and we both get a kick out of making the other jump.

For a skinny guy, (no bigger around than my little finger) he sure is long. Had to be at least two feet or longer.

For a citified country girl, I sure am -- you fill in the blank.
Shelly > May 20, 2008 Sqiggles My little reptilian buddy from March 12 http://www.spccreative.com/popular/1/264947975_ngG2K#264947975_ngG2K came back to see me again. This time he was alone. We had a serious conversation where I told him he as welcome in my yard but that I would appreciate it if he didn't startle me so much every time he showed up. He responded and said that he'd play fair if I would, reminding me that he was more afraid of me than I was of him, "Yeah," I said. "I've heard that one before." "Well -- it's true," he told me. "By the way, would you please keep that Siamese Cat in the house? He's really scary." We left each other with an understanding -- We both know where the other lives and we both get a kick out of making the other jump. For a skinny guy, (no bigger around than my little finger) he sure is long. Had to be at least two feet or longer. For a citified country girl, I sure am -- you fill in the blank.
May 20, 2008

Sqiggles

My little reptilian buddy from March 12 http://www.spccreative.com/popular/1/264947975_ngG2K#264947975_ngG2K came back to see me again. This time he was alone.

We had a serious conversation where I told him he as welcome in my yard but that I would appreciate it if he didn't startle me so much every time he showed up. He responded and said that he'd play fair if I would, reminding me that he was more afraid of me than I was of him,

"Yeah," I said. "I've heard that one before."

"Well -- it's true," he told me. "By the way, would you please keep that Siamese Cat in the house? He's really scary."

We left each other with an understanding -- We both know where the other lives and we both get a kick out of making the other jump.

For a skinny guy, (no bigger around than my little finger) he sure is long. Had to be at least two feet or longer.

For a citified country girl, I sure am -- you fill in the blank.
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