Flying When Everything Says Stand Still!!!!


Some days, it would seem a person should stay in bed. The sky is dark! The clouds are rolling in! Lots of work piled up, mmmmmmm  Get up??  

Ahhhhhh, the dark skies flashed lightning,

 dropped rain, ( filling the water tank)  

 The work was challenging and rewarding,

and I even had time to clown around! 

WHO WOULD EVER WANT TO SPEND A DAY IN BED! 


HAVE AN UP AND AT 'EM DAY, WONCHA! 

SITTING ISN'T FLYING, BUT YOU CAN SEE WHERE TO SOAR!

I SOMETIMES FLY, BUT DON'T SOAR! 

    "busy flying" isn't really flying! You don't really leave the ground at all! 

Yesterday, I truly could see in my mind what was making the sounds I was hearing, and all the people and creatures and mechanical things that were making them.

 It was an ear-photograph!


Then I thought about just sitting, something I don't do very often, as I am usually in Kenya and busy! 
Sometimes we need to just sit and watch, and listen, and then we can see the heights to reach! 

This photo of a fishing eagle on Lake Victoria shows what his waiting and watching got: -fish lunch! 


I have been too busy tring to "fly", I havenven't taken time to stop and just do a little creative thinking. 


MMMM I think I like this hillside in Uganda, and maybe I'll even remember how to correct the spelling mistake I made in yesterdays blog! I put in "darks barking" but is really was dogs! 


Any minute now, if I sit quietly, and don't fly for a few moments, it will come to me. 


Have a restful day, wontcha! pjmcneal

SITTING ON A HILL IN UGANDA

As I sit by the open door, reading a book, the sounds come up the hill like photographs!
Each sound I am hearing today brings a picture with it. The birds, many varieties, make a chorus, when I listen closely! Loud chirps, harking laughs, trills, cheeps, all the sounds of bird-dom, and it blends through the other sounds I hear!
The banging hammers of the men across the alley making a brick wall, their voices punctuating their hammer sounds.
A radio is playing somewhere, with music in another language, but it too seems to blend.
I hear the cars on the road at the bottom of the hill, heavy trucks changing gears, an airplane goes overhead.
A little child is talking to his mom at the gate, and dogs make a sporadic bark that picks up the tune!

The everday song of life as  people go about their day.

So much better than yesterday, when the sounds were teargas cannisters bursting, guns being fired, and sirens   wailing. Yesterday the sounds were bad and frightening, but today, all is calm, and life goes on!

Have a good sounding day, wontcha!  pjmcneal

OLD MEMORIES FLYING BY

You will never guess, this is such a fun picture for me!

My oldest grandaughter's closet, with my mother's old jewelry box!

Mom was the queen of beads, making jewelry and lots of gorgeous tree ornament, among other things. One year we found the perfect gift, this big box!

She just loved it, and after she died, I got it back. It sat in storage for years, I couldn't take it to Kenya!

At last, it has a home. We put it in the car in B.C. and it drove with us to upstate New York, and Maria's new closet.

And she is the queen of loving jewelry, vintage or otherwise, definitely related to her great grandma.

It is so much fun to pass something on, the right thing to the right person, just makes me feel good!

We didn't samve a lot of stuff, but the odd bit here and there, ahhh, what fun!

One thing I can take to Kenya, or anywhere for that matter, is all the wonderful memories. They are even better than picutres, and never glitch in the external hard drive, or stick in the photo album, or get lost in the baggage department!

mmmmm, memories, old and new.

Have a memorable day, wontcha?

FIRST STEPS TO FLYING

September and the kids go to school, for some it is the first step into kindergarden, or first step into high school!

Or a September holiday, and the first step to getting on the plane, or the boat, or the car....

I started thinking of first steps, and that made me notice how many people take photos of feet!

Feet, footsteps, first steps....

We have travelled so much this year, and every trip had a first step .... maybe to unearth the passports, the suitcase, walk into the travel agent ...

Other journeys..... like the first step down the aisle in a church, who would have thought that 35 years later that first step would have taken me around and around the world!

...First step into a store to buy a camera, would lead to a special friend who takes amazing photos, and has encouraged me to try to take amazing photos!

We all have first steps everyday, and who knows where it is leading,

Have a really stepping out day, wontcha!

FLYING BACKWARDS AGAIN!

Well, I did it! I took a picture of the past in the present!

Don't you just love this photo - I took it as we travelled along, ( yeah, I do get bored occasionally) so took this photo in the side rear view mirror!

It was just at sunset, and I never messed with colour or anything, just one of those photos that sooooo works, you think you will give up your day job and become a full time photographer.

11,000 photos later, I am still at my day job!

If I could figure out how to get what I see to come out the camera!

Actually, I realize I do.

The pictures in my heart are perfect, and there forever.

Occasionally I can photograph the past, but mostly I like looking forward, going forward, and just enjoying everyday as it happens!

But if the chance presents itself, do take a picture of what lies behind!

Have a saving your memories day, wontcha!

LEARNING TO FLY IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY

"IF YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEAD WHEN EVERYONE AROUND IS LOSING THEIRS, YOU PROBBALY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON!"

I am not normally a grumbler. But some days, I just get a bad case of the crazies.

Situations that make me feel STUPID make me crazy. I feel totally grounded, totally wingless, flightless, motionless, STUPID!!!

The situation I am talking about is debit machines, card machines, those little gagets on store counters designed to make my life easy, by

a.) saving me a trip to the bank

b.) not having to carry a cheque book

ahhh, life will be so simple!

But then came the invention option, and everyone and their dog has a different kind of debit machine!!!

Yes, dog: remember the old St. Bernard photo with the brandy keg around his neck? WEll, I am sure the modern day one has a debit machine!!!!

And no two dogs with the same one!

Maybe it's because we have been travelling so much, but I always seem to be pressing ok, when it should be enter, or using my finger when it should be the stylus, (and by the way, why is the stylus on the left side, when most of the world is right handed???)

Okay, I am over my tantrum. I will get my head out of Aliigator Al's jaws and go shopping.

Shopping? yeah, with a shopping bag of cash! No more debits for awhile, until I finish my class in "Debit machine Management 101."

Have a technology free day , wontcha!