chronicles of me, abb

Saturday, September 20, 2008

It's SO easy! Just Hit the Ball!

A swing at the ball -

Unsuccessful contact. Hmmm...

Golf lessons perhaps?

~~~

xoabb

expect anything!

Friday, September 19, 2008

Contrails...

Sky Watch Friday...Join us !

Trailways,

Tailways

Where are you going,

What place will you know?

~~~

xoabb

expect anything!

Thursday, September 18, 2008

My Dodgie has the uncanny ability (very likely inherited/learned from his dad) of finding fauna in places that most of us would totally miss seeing them. Case in point, the turtle Dodgie pointed out to me in the creek bottom. (Yup, our parent's Missouri creek bottom.) I thought I was taking a photo of a lovely rocky creek bed. Dodgie immediately told me he didn't think it was a rock, but some living thing. I believed him because there was no way I was going to find out in an up close and personal kind of way what exactly it was. (Can you spot it in the photo below?)

Dodgie told me that finding out what it was wasn't a problem as he would wade in and pick up that rounded "rock" to really see what it was so I didn't have to. He said it was all well and good because he had already fallen in the creek and was wet; and besides, he liked to be wet and in the creek so he could discover all new things. I couldn't argue with that kind of logic...(neither could any of you!)

Gently he lifted the "rock" and proved what he thought all along - a turtle! Specifically it was a a ~Red-Eared Slider~, (We know this as over the years, because of his insatiable curiosity, Dodgie's dad (my brother) has developed a first-name-basis relationship with the folks at the Missouri Department of Conservation. I'm sure he's bugged the heck out of them, but it has resulted in lots of good identifying info.)

I, of course, thought it was a common snapping turtle which would turn and bite my beloved Dodgie's nose off. Dodgie, of course, told me I didn't know my turtles and there was no way this was a snapping turtle and it would not ever bite his or anyone else's nose off...thankfully he was right!

(Mr. Turtle was released, unharmed, back to the wild

soon after this photo was taken. Dodgie hiked up the

hill, took a shower, ate dinner, and went to bed to

dream the dreams boys do of turtles hiding in streams)

~~~

xoabb

expect anything!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Incognito

Incognito....

I've never seen a green zinnia so thought it would be a good idea to take a photo or two of the ones that are growing in my parent's MO garden (yes, their garden really is that wonderful - I think I've said that before;-). Took this first photo - that isn't well centered or anything else - and thought all was well and good, it just needed to be finessed.

Second photo....hellooooo, Mr. Spider! Incognito you were before! Didn't even see you the first time, but certainly couldn't miss you the second time! I left him to his spiderly way and we both benefited - me with a lovely (to some) photo and him with an undisturbed spiderly life.

~~~

xoabb

expect anything!

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The Road Home

Of all the places you've lived, where is home?

Where is the place you go back to whenever you need a safehaven?

What are the memories that make it your home?

Home...where the heart is.

Home...where the good memories are, whether new or old.

Did you find home early in your life or in just the past few years?

No matter when in your life you found it...

There's no place like home.

~~~

xoabb

expect anything!

Monday, September 15, 2008

A Little Red Suitcase

While traveling home, I happened to spot the above lady who was taking the same flight I was on. She looked like a perfectly lovely gray-haired grandma kind of person (and probably only 5 to 10 years older than me, if I'm honest - BLAH) in sensible clothes and shoes.

Her carry-on was an old fashioned red suitcase with one little old handle on top. I haven't seen one of those in years - I didn't even know they were still made or sold! Uhh..wait! That suitcase could be 20, 30, 40 years old! Maybe she just takes really good care of her possesions. Didn't think of that.

I wonder if her laptop is inside...