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Shelly > July 29, 2008

Them's some BIG little dawgs!

I know which breeds are fearsome, and have always been just a bit uncomfortable  around the tiny ones.  Give me a big dog any day.  These guys, however, turned out to be pretty friendly. I loved how the door could open over their heads and they'd never even have to move.  

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement." 
 --  Charles M. Schulz, (Snoopy) 1922 - 2000
Shelly > April 20, 2009

Every spring, and usually before the water warms up enough to really enjoy, I buy a big cheap red rubber ball.  It floats in the pool until it either pops, blows over the fence or fades and shrinks.   

Really don't know why I do it.  I guess I just like the idea of buying springtime toys. Still, the red ball in the pool has become an established tradition at our house. 

Happy Monday Morning Everyone!

"and I've never licked a spark-plug
and I've never sniffed a stink bug
and I've never painted Daisies on a big red rubber ball
and I've never bathed in yogurt
and I don't look good in leggings
and I've never been to Boston in the fall" -- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Shelly > June 15, 2009

Mama Sorenson's Daylily

Passed down for at least  four generations, this daylily got its start in my great grandmother's yard.  Thanks to my mother, enough bulb sets have been salvaged and passed along so that my brothers and I as well as our aunts and uncles and  cousins  have them too.   I guess that makes these an heirloom variety in their own right. 

The heat has pretty well zapped mine for the rest of the year, but I can count on them coming back again. 

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." --   William Arthur Ward
Shelly > April 29, 2009

One of my seniors.  Isn't she lovely?  

"Leap and the net will appear." -- Julia Cameron, Author and Creativity Expert
Shelly > May 15, 2009

A New Era for the JETBand

Congratulations to Christopher Bailey, just named Director of  Bands at James E. Taylor High School. 

I would have walked through fire for my high school band directors. Even got busted my senior year by the nurse at my doctor's office for going to flag practice after receiving a mono-diagnosis.  I was supposed to go straight home and go to bed, but I had my priorities in  order.   

"Nothing we have done in the past will ever be good enough again!" was the slogan for the Robert E. Lee Rebel Band, Midland, TX

So . . . in the spirit of Ike Nail, Van Ragsdale . . . and JD Janda (even a tip of the hat to Randy Storie who came along after my time but taught brothers and a son)  -- The tower is yours now, Mr. Bailey.  Build your team and teach our kids to love music for the rest of their lives. You WILL make a  lasting impression.
Shelly > July 31, 2008

Hungry Eyes

Only a minor adjustment with levels.  Otherwise straight out of camera. 

"I just need enough to tide me over until I need more." -- Bill Hoest, Cartoonist (The Lockhorns)  1926-1988
Shelly > April 30, 2009
Senior Eye-Tis

When I was a senior in high school and so many other kids were sliding into their blow-off days, just  coasting until graduation,  I was just a little different. I had a revelation of sorts and realized that there's a really big world out there.  

All at once I wanted to learn everything I could possibly absorb.  I wanted to see everything.  Go everywhere.  Learn every language known to mankind.   Cure cancer and feed the hungry. Negotiate peace and hug the elderly.  As I saw and learned more and more, I realized how much more there was to explore.   It was exciting, overwhelming, humbling, and sometimes even frightening.  

That was a long time ago and I'm not through yet.  

These eyes are just getting started and there's a big beautiful world out there waiting for them. 

You GO GIRL!

"Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. " Wally 'Famous' Amos  (cookie man) 1936 -
Shelly > December 18

Isn't She Lovely?

Remember Mawmaw from my Thanksgiving pictures?  Well, here she is around the time of her wedding . . .  and here's a link to her recent picture.    http://spccreative.smugmug.com/gallery/4550624_LCxaW#429560928_CxaLK

I've had this picture of her on my desk for several months because I wanted to try my hand at restoring it.   Here's the original and my current state (note I haven't said final yet)  Did all kinds of work on the edges first.  Then I realized that the proprtion was so long and skinny that we couldn't get a standard print out of it.  That's why I added the torn paper frame.  I'm not so sure I love the frame enough to leave it  -- or if I should just try to build out the edges from the original.  Any thoughts or suggestions?
Shelly > December 4, 2008

Curl Up and Dye

A hairdresser in LaGrange, TX has a wonderful sense of humor.  This salon next door to the historic cemetery has called out to me the last three or four times I have passed through town.  

It seems like the only times I travel, it is because I am on my way someplace.  DOH!  Taking the time for unassigned photo stops is a luxury that I still don't afford myself often enough.  This stop on the way home from our Thanksgiving gathering was planned from the get-go.  Is it bad to laugh in the cemetery?  

"Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you."  --Elsie DeWolfe, Pioneering Interior Decorator
July 29, 2008

Them's some BIG little dawgs!

I know which breeds are fearsome, and have always been just a bit uncomfortable around the tiny ones. Give me a big dog any day. These guys, however, turned out to be pretty friendly. I loved how the door could open over their heads and they'd never even have to move.

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
-- Charles M. Schulz, (Snoopy) 1922 - 2000
Shelly > July 29, 2008

Them's some BIG little dawgs!

I know which breeds are fearsome, and have always been just a bit uncomfortable  around the tiny ones.  Give me a big dog any day.  These guys, however, turned out to be pretty friendly. I loved how the door could open over their heads and they'd never even have to move.  

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement." 
 --  Charles M. Schulz, (Snoopy) 1922 - 2000
July 29, 2008

Them's some BIG little dawgs!

I know which breeds are fearsome, and have always been just a bit uncomfortable around the tiny ones. Give me a big dog any day. These guys, however, turned out to be pretty friendly. I loved how the door could open over their heads and they'd never even have to move.

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
-- Charles M. Schulz, (Snoopy) 1922 - 2000
See photo in original gallery.

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