today i will be effusive....

now granted

that's a word i have never used before while writing or talking

but

it's how i've been described

and

it's how i want to be today

to make up for yesterday

~

ahhh yes

back to

today

~

there's a wine extravaganza today at world market. we're going.

~

there's a make and take your own stamped jewelry class today at the little shop that sells my post cards and greeting cards.

i'm going.

~

there's a furniture store that has chairs that we've been eyeing for awhile now.

we're going there, too.

~

i hope your weekend is filled with something or someone you're passionate about

which in turn

will make you

effusive

too

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spilling open....

as i sit here typing, the wind outside is behaving badly. if i had a "no surfing" flag

i'd plant it firmly in my front yard, just to make the neighbors laugh.

charlie our weather guy, who i can hear off in the distance,

just said 40 miles per hour winds. so it's also a day not to wear hats.

~

i talk a lot and often and when i don't, people wonder what's wrong even when i say "i'm fine."

here's the thing. when i am quiet, something is wrong.

i guess i'm an open book that way.

page 67 or 99. take your pick.

they both say "she's not talking right now."

that's what happened last night.

~

but you know what. my being quiet is as ugly as an egg salad sandwich

for me and anyone around me

and

today's a new day,

even if this so called day is trying to blow itself to another continent.

so my words have returned.

~

granted, they're being a bit shy.

but they're here. sitting in a circle on carpet squares with wide eyes and their hands raised. waiting to be called on.

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a thousand times before....

if you had told me five years ago

that someday

i'd fall in love with an old stone wall sliding precariously close to a lake's edge

or

exposed tree roots that had outgrown themselves

i would have grabbed the yellow pages and searched institutes

~for both of us~

::

i guess i have always loved landscapes

but

not enough to necessarily photograph them

or

to even think they were worthy of being photographed

::

but now

i see beauty everywhere

and

everyday landscapes that i've seen a thousand times

are sucking me in

like that deep breath you take so carefully

when your doctor has a stethoscope on your back

::

so today

even if your landscape is piles of dirty laundry or dishes

or

a mess of pillows and blankets while the bedding gets changed

love it

let it suck you in

photograph it

and

be amazed

that what you've seen so many times before

can

be amazing and beautiful

today

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my pond...

okay

it's not really my pond, but that's what i call it

and

after a sleepy winter and a terribly long and icy spring

that prevented me from getting near it...

well

i'm back

and

so are my turtles and my herons and my geese and my ducks

~

okay

they're not really mine

but

i wish they were

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if you want to see more glorious {and i mean glorious} shots from the pond

{yep i'm totally bragging on myself here}

head over here for a black and white extravaganza

like one hundred times on the blackboard...

i will write these words in my heart

over and over

again

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sure enough....

if you get down really low

with your cheek almost on the ground

and

move the matted leaves and reeds

flattened like pancakes during winter's wrath

you can find

spring

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happy sunday everyone

and

i hope today you find color underneath your feet

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rescue dogs rock...

this new little doll baby

belongs to my sister and her family

~

the vet said

she has a little of this and a little of that in her

~

he didn't say she had any shar-pei though

~

my niece disagrees.

precious

right

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happy weekend everyone and thanks for coming here and making my funk from yesterday's post, less funky and all the birthday wishes for my dad so wonderful. you're the best.

i have lots more black and whites

{because i can't seem to get enough of them}

over here

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