DailyPhotos > popular all-time > still half-asleep in the shower
08/25/08

had lovely rain showers for the past couple days. i like to walk in the rain and thought this hollyhock bud perfect subject for my daily. used the on camera flash for set very low for fill. i sure did enjoy the olympics. watched quite a bit live when i was awake in the middle of the night. the dust on the sensor is still annoyingly there, should've magically cleaned itself by now shouldn't it ;-)  just one more necessary thing i've been letting slip. shall try to get on it this week
DailyPhotos > popular all-time > 8-3-07 

Did you say something to me?
DailyPhotos > popular all-time > May 13

Bubbles In Blue

I extend my deep gratitude to this community of wonderful, talented 'Kindred Spirits' for your comments on my photos!  Thank you for taking that time and offering the compliments, encouragement and fun!
DailyPhotos > popular all-time > May 10, 2008

A Tree Swallow....Making a grocery run-


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DailyPhotos > popular all-time > July 1, 2008

The Long ride Home.

How do you tell someone you love they can't go home again? They can't just get in their car and take ride, they can't cook a good meal, go shopping or watch the sunset at their favorite beach? How do you tell someone you love they can't have their puppy with them? They can't travel or eat the things they enjoy but aren't good for them? How do to you tell someone you love that their life will never be the same? They can't just call you because they forget your number or how to dial the phone? I had to. 

July 2, my mom will be 69 years young. 

It's didn't work...They don't know what's causing all her problems. 


Almost a year ago my mom went into the hospital for a jump start on her heart as it was out of rhythm. She went for this procedure a total of 4 times. Each time the doctor saying it will work this time. The last time they also wanted to do an obliteration, a burning off of the arteries that we not working. (If I am understanding it correctly.) They also said a pacemaker would help jump start her if her heart failed. When they went inside her chest to the heart the doctor stated that the artery he needed was not where it should be and he had to move her heart around to find it. My mom was under anesthesia three times longer than she should have been. She has never been the same. 

I kept telling her doctors that my mom was not herself. They kept assuring me it would take time. It didn't. Everyone downplayed my moms condition. 

It finally got to the point that my mom could not walk, feed herself, bath etc. Home health nurse, bless his heart, on his second visit rushed my mom to the hospital as she was not responding to him. 

The neurologist figured out from her symptoms that she had water on the brain but didn't know what was causing it. They felt that by doing the lumbar puncture and relieving some of the spinal fluid off that she would regain her strength and slowly her memory. 

It didn't work. 

Thanks for your prayers and well wishes. 

My heart is breaking, that's my mom...
DailyPhotos > popular all-time > 6/18/07: HWY 163
DailyPhotos > popular all-time > 28.4.08 - Elemental Power. It's been a long time since I had a sunset as my DP, but it is weird how similar this one is to the last one. I've substituted a distant power station for the Cathedral, but the golden drama in the sky is almost identical. It has been another day of heavy April showers, and these always seem to give great sunsets. It was very difficult to get the lighting in this image anything like the real thing, the contrast between light and shade was so huge, but I'm happy with this now. The power station is about 15 miles away, and it was under a big storm cloud making it completely dark. There was rain between me and it, but beyond the station was brilliant sunshine. When you compare the power of humans in the form of the power station, with the power of nature in the form of sunshine and storms, there is only one winner!
DailyPhotos > popular all-time > 6-15-08
My friends and I went hiking up to Stewart Falls today.  I'd never been there before, but you know how I love waterfalls!  This was my personal favorite shot of the falls themselves (thought not, as a matter of fact, my very favorite shot of the DAY).  I just liked the look of the water falling over the tree and the rocks like that.  It just looked neat to me.
DailyPhotos > popular all-time > We came home from our travels to discover that Johnny had learned a new trick:  this is the response you get if you ask him where his nose is!  He turned 18 months old today, and we're beginning to think he's hitting the terrible twos a little early.  ;-)
(August 23, 2008)





"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
   ~~ Mark Twain
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