Shadow Shots Selfie Sunday (BeauSpeak)

 

My Daddy, times 3...Daddy's Shadow, Daddy and his Reflection

And ME And Mama's Shadow

Here you go, Mama, take your Best Shot. You got it, you got ME!

My heart is heavy, Please continue to pray for Beau, he is not himself at all, there is nothing we can see wrong, but this is what he does, all day and night, he is listless and seeks to lay as close to one of us as he can get, or on us. In this spot he is as close to Bob, by sitting in bob's seat, only 2 feet away. Yesterday he came to the sofa, and nosed the pillow that was laying between Bob and Me, I moved it and he crawled on Bobs Lap. 

Yes, I am smiling because it blessed my heart to see him do it and it broke it also.

I smiled because I can still smile even when my heart is breaking

Sun Damage Shadow Art Wordless Wed

I used to be a brown canvas, for privacy,

now I am art for all to see.

Sun Paintings from Nov 11, 2024

 

post Found in Drafts. 

How old is the oldest sheet in your home? perhaps you may call them bed linens. Is it a set? Flat or fitted? Why do you still have old sheets?

I have 2 white flat sheets from my wedding shower in 1963 and about 6 pillowcases. My dad was pastor of a small church, about 100 members. The entire church was invited to my wedding. Daddy to perform the ceremony. I had 3 different showers. Everyone came and I ended up with a dozen sets of sheets and cases, 5 shower curtains, 6 tablecloths. Back then sheets came in twin or double. As the years passed, we went to queen and then to dual king. The sheets were like new and still are.

I just can't throw out old sheets, towels, wash cloths. Or ragged throw rugs. The hall closet is full of all of this because I can use rugs to keep water from coming in the back door during Storms or in the garage to keep water out. Old towels are for dog baths

I keep the sheets, because of what if! 

. Emergency Only Linens. What if I fell and was bleeding and needed to do a tourniquet? 

What if I ran out of bandages and needed sheets to rip into strips to wrap the cut. daddy did that to all my cuts, he ripped old material into strips and wrapped around and around and split the end and tied in a knot. That is what we did back in the 40's and 50's. 

what if the country burst into Civil War and we have no electric or washers. We can swap sheets while we beat the others clean on rocks in the creek. Alas we have no creek...or wash boards..

Ramblings from the MAD Snapper just for YOU.    How old is your oldest sheet

I forgot to say that what makes my oldest one special is the fact they moved 10 times since 1963, and 5 times since I move to Florida in 1984..

Almost Wordless Wed POO (perfectly ordinary objects)

 

I flipped on the light and stepped in the 2nd BR my Desktop lives in and Five Snaps later you can see what I saw. I love shadows. check out the lacy look of the lamp shadow. The shadow on the floor, is my chair and the great big 36 inch all in one Desktop Asus. The desk light is behind them and I did not want you to think that shadow is ME. 😉

There might be wrinkles on the bed caused by a midnight raid from our dog Beau...

Shadow Shots Sunday

 

I love shadows created on POO (perfectly ordinary objects) these were taken in 2014 in our Desoto Square Mall, that has since closed. You can see how empty the beautiful mall was at lunch time. I was fascinated by the sun paintings.

Ice cream booth in the Food court. We had lunch and while eating I saw this and after we finished went wandering for more sun shadows. you can tell bob was really excited waiting on me to Snap Myself Silly

Sunday Sunshine Shadow Shots

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I love the way the sun paints my kitchen every day, the sunbeams move to a different place each day and I never tire of it, not even after 33 years 5 months in this kitchen.

 

Peaceful Shadows

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

H. G. Spafford 1873

Random Shadow Shots

I love palms and shadows and reflections. Saw this walking up to our hospital to visit a friend.

The shadow is the roof, odd shaped caught my eye. and below is my shadow and my tiny little camera.. No I am NOT pregnant and the birds are courtesy of PicMonkey.

I am singing Me and My Shadow  Sammy and Frank

Shadows In My Kitchen

Each afternoon, between 6 and 6:30, the sun is sinking in the West and makes these shadows on my kitchen wall. since the Pothos does not like direct light, I tilt the blinds to keep if off, but yesterday I took time to capture the golden light, Just For You...

The good news is, it only does this in the winter time, which is when we need the warmth and beauty... Hope this sun glow makes you feel as happy as it does me.

Bob's Birthday Bash...

Bob's Choice for his Lunch Out for his birthday BASH... Think PHILLY CHEESE STEAK under the skylights in the Food Court of our local mall.... Not Kidding... that is what he chose.

We had a BLAST, after we stuffed ourselves, we hiked the length of the mall... here is the story in photos. Well, he hiked in the shadows, I SNAPPED at the shadows.

We found ourselves reverting to our childhood, looking at ourselves in the windows, putting quarters in the bubble gum machines.. It was a quarter, when we were young it was a penny.

We had to pass up riding the train, it was closed at the time

because we were the only KIDS in the mall.

There was a lot of giggling gong on...

We are now declaring ourselves officially regressed to our childhood... Yes, there were people staring and just like children, we did not care.

The Papaya that lives in the hospital..

The Plant Hospital is open for business... I could not restrain myself because of the shadows..

 See those 3 sticks? they are OLD, USELESS, Worn OUT mops and a broom... I think Bob thinks if he leaves them standing in the plant hospital they will rejuvenate...

this is the space between two fences, where the garbage cans, ladders and lawn mower live, and for some reason a sick plant placed here will get better in no time at all...

The Papaya tree lives here because Bob has planted so many bushes and trees it has to live in the bucket. If you are totally bored with life and want to know more.. click on the Papaya  label below because this is my FIFTH post on it, from when he planted the seed in a Crock Pot butter tub.

It is now almost 8 feet tall.

QUESTION  ... do you or your spouse keep all old mops,  brooms, shovels etc? Bob does.. they are every where...

5:30 AM UPDATE: Tropical Storm Andrea is looming and we have half a tree down in our side yard, it missed the house, just caught the edge, will have photos sometime. If I am not commenting or posting it will be do to power outage. We are under tornado watch, had one touch down in our county, but we are fine and waiting for it to pass. I did not sleep more than an hour last night, the tree went down at 10:40 and with gusting winds throwing rain i could not sleep. 

Art In Strange Places

First Snap

While waiting on the elevator at Blake Hospital this week, I Snapped away, and a nurse gave me a strange look when the elevator opened and I did not jump right on.... She never knew what I was doing, so don't tell.

What's wrong? You KNEW I would Picmonkey with it? right?

How many bloggers do you know that takes photos in the hospital hallway?

2nd Snap at an angle

 I love the way the shadows changed when I moved to my left. Only got 2 snaps, wouldn't you know the elevator would come right away? the last time I could have snapped a hundred pics while waiting.