Christmas Held Hostage

I found this display and knew that it was worth a shot. For a good price you can have your Christmas too.

Under the Spotlight

I might expect this pigeon to get up and dance with a top hat and cane. Perhaps a redition of "Me and My Shadow".

This one was resting on a downspout under a hot security light behind a bar. I was next door in a parking lot that sits a lot higher. I happened to see it sitting there crouched down for warmth. I plan to got back in the winter to see if it has company in zero degree weather.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

November and December are my cranky months. I really just want to argue and spit. I have no excuse and I offer none. I have birthday blues and there is no real heart left in Christmas.

Thats all, just a short thought.

Sunday Morning Blur

Another day where I woke before light. Out the door and to the Bedford Basin where I attempted to get some good shots. I moved the tripod base from left to right to blur the photo. I was having a crappy time getting the friggin thing to focus anyway. There is something about dim light and nothing to focus on that does it. Hell, even the manual focus would not work right. Kinda pretty just the same.

After I read recent book on photography that covered shooting in black and white I thought I would shoot a few. My camera does not shoot in black and white. I can edit them but this one I liked as is. No edit.

I was just thinking...

could it be that faith is an act submission? I am not there yet. Giving in and giving all will to something outside self. Too much doubt and not enough trust.

Poor Santa

The look on the poor guy's face is priceless. I can imagine the decibels on his ears. As I have heard them over the phone, I am sure he was in pain.

First snow in November. The 6th of November. Early morning. Driving to work. Traffice backed up because we left our homes at the usual time. But then again, winter months are always heavy in the way of traffic.

I was just thinking....

Our first snow, though a small one. High school students waiting at the transit stop as I do a drive by shot.

I had one of those light bulb moments recently. Let me say first that on a daily basis I try to live in the current time frame. No to perfection but attempting to swim about in slow flowing life. I happened to read a title that someone was reading called "The Fantastic Bond", that I understand it to be about mothers and their children. The present mother who is distant with their child (children). It clicked a light as on a toggle switch and answered a lot of questions that I have passed through my head over the years. I see my own mother in this way. I am not casting aspersions upon her memory but stating a fact about her inability to be a nurturing force. I would guess that she passed on what she knew. So, have I in some ways. I managed to pull up the words of a love you and hug; because I knew what it was like to have neither. The rest was a lack of my own maturity. I live with old longings and regrets. I know that my mother did. She said to me that she should have never had children. How odd to hear your parent say as much and sometime think the same of myself at times.

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Why seek affirmation and congratulations from someone else when I can seek it from myself. - Murr Stevens